1941 Willy's

[59impala]

It took me over 20 years to re-build this car.  I got it from a coworker and the trunk lid was missing.  It was put together really bad and I couldn't save a lot of it.  One day a few years ago a guy came in the hobby store with a box of mostly air plane parts kits.  In the box was two doors and the trunk lid for the Willy's.  Go figure.  So, I got to work on this thing and it took a while to get it together.  I used a front drop axle from a 40 Ford kit and the rear axle and springs are from a 56 Chevy.  The engine is from a WWII Jeep.  4 banger souped up a tad bit.  I filled in the front grill area and used a piece of speaker grill to make the grill.  The front bumper is from a 40 Ford truck and the headlights are from a newer issue 41 Willy's and i had to open up the fenders for them to fit.  I filled in the rear fenders to a more stock look and the rear bumper is from the Willy's kit.This thing was in real bad shape and I almost tossed it out.  Here are some pics of it before, during and after.  If you want to see more pics I'll post them up.  For some reason I can only post three pics at a time.

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Now THAT'S scavenging parts. A little bit of this and a little bit of that.

As for only being able to post 3 photos at a time, it's because you are posting direct to the forum's free file storage as opposed to using a 3rd party hosting site. There is only so much free storage that we have and once it's used up, we're kind of SOL. I've deleted as many old threads as I could to free up space, but that's pretty much all I can do. The 3 photo limit is a ProBoards default and is imposed to slow down the use of the freebie storage. The only way you can post more than 3 at a time is via a 3rd party hosting site like Fotki, Imgur, or any one of several others. I would only recommend you stay away from PhotoBucket. Using any of those sites for hosting photos will allow you to post as many at a time as you'd like.

[david]

Very cool 59impala! A Willy's-Chevrolet-Ford-mobile!! Way to go! The end build just made me smile real big!! 

[70sprostockfan]

I bow to the king of junk! I think this is one of the first ones that I've seen put back stockish. I don't think that's a word but it gets the idea across I hope! Cool idea

[59impala]

Thanks for the kind words guys. I hear ya Steve about the photo sites. Allen, you made me laugh with your comment. Well, stockish is a word now fer sure. LOL. This car was in very bad shape. The guy used a kitchen knife I believe to scrape off the paint and you can see the damage he did to it. I used a lot of primer to fill in all the scratches and it turned out Ok for what I had to start with. The biggest surprise I had was when the guy brought in the box of airplane parts in it and there was the trunk lid for the Willy's. Who'd a thought that would be in a box of airplane parts? Not me fer sure.