[SEL] Sorta engine related.....

[Alan Bowen]

Very cool truck there.
Thank for the pix.
I am willing to bet you will do better by that one than my step-father did with the 1942-43 Willy's panel truck that he bought in 1965.
He pulled the engine and rebuilt it then put it back in the truck.
I thought all was well when it started and ran so nice around the yard.
BUT,,, here is where things went bad,,,
The old geezer wanted a pickup.
He started cutting that body up and just about the time it began looking like a pickup he found a great deal on a 1962 Chevy C 100  and left the Willy's sitting then unfinished for a year then scrapped it out.  He cut that body up into pieces and hauled the pieces away in the Chevy.

Alan Bowen
Williamsburg, Michigan

Curt <curt at imc-group.com> wrote: Guys and gals,
This is kinda engine related.....at least it has an engine. :-)
Son Devin is a little over 14 now and in a couple of years will be 
driving. So we've been thinking about what kind of vehicle would be kewl 
for a kid to drive yet won't go too fast. Granddad had an old Willys 
Overland  Jeep wagon that I remember driving in the orange groves in 
Florida in years ago. So I've been sending Devin pictures of these 
wagons and somewhere in there he discovered the pickups. That was what 
he decided he wanted. I tried to explain to him that there wasn't much 
room in the cab of these pickups, and if he was carrying a saxophone and 
a book bag, there would be no room left for a passenger. But I didn't 
convince him......
So I decided I needed to find both a pickup and a wagon for him to sit 
in. Got lucky and found both not too far away and last Saturday the 
family went to check them out. Devin sat in the truck for about 2 
minutes and concluded that it didn't fit him. (Can't move the seat 
back!) He immediately changed his sites to the wagon and fell head over 
heals for it. So yesterday we took the truck and trailer and picked the 
wagon up. Missy was busy on the camera and took these photos as we 
loaded and unloaded.


So we've got a project that will take us a couple of years to complete. 
As you can imagine Devin is pretty excited and ready to get started. 
Hopefully with all the sweat equity he puts in it, he will take good 
care of it.
Hope you enjoy. If anyone knows a source of parts for these please let 
me know.....especially sheet metal patch panels.
Curt


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