Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Wouldn't of happened without SuperDon

Well not much progress today due to getting up a bit late ain't jetlag a wonderful thing

Along with my lights i got the door handles too, Its difficult to use the original handles on a glass car as the originals sort of clip into place so Willys parts have modified them and do a verson just for glass cars that bolt in place, pretty well designed so you only see the screw heads when the handle is turned. They are very nicely made with good chrome plating.














Original style fitting













I also made a colour descision today, Ian (bigbossman had done several photoshops for me in satin blue & grey but they just didn't work and looked horrible, So see as its a 60's car I have gone for a dark blue mini flake., not sure the pic will give its true colour and sparkle.











Someone commented that the header flanges didn't have enough room for the bolts so today i made a bit more headway with them and they are fine as i thought they would be.

I knew you couldn't get away without the sparkles. The color looks great. Are you going to do the door art? Looks like it's coming along good.

That has more clearance than most production headers I have seen. I have a drawer full of special wrenches and sockets and some of them have been ground and bent in various ways just to get header bolts in and out. There are some header bolts you even have to use an open end wrench on because they are so tight to the tube.

Those door handles look as good as the rest of the stuff you bought over here. The guy who makes them has a real niche' market all to himself, it seems.

See, Steve, I told you I could keep a secret........I knew weeks ago what color your car was going to be, but I didn't tell a sole.

Don

Thanks Steve, I'm starting to with i had bought the beltline trim now, I think it would look cool with it.

The hardest thing with any car project, is the more time you put into it, the more you want it to look really good, vs. o.k. or driveable, pretty soon it takes on a life of it's own. For what it's worth the blue flake looks perfect for what you want to do with the Willys. I had a motorcyle helmet it the 70's that looked like that blue metal flake. I thought it was so cool!

Steve i wasn't going to fit the beltline trim as its a bit spendy but the flake will highlight the chrome so i think its now needed. The SWC car was dark mettalic blue once too, heres a couple of pics with the trim and without, Hopefully i will get mine on straight

Awesome colour Steve and now tell me as I regard you as the flafe expert, is that a medium flake ??I now believe from reading your previous posts either here or elsewhere,one can get different grades of flake?? I too like the goodies you purchased in the States and what happened to the " just thrown together race car look" you were going for?? Oh that's right,you haven't used stainless bolts on everything yet.

How ya doing Whip, Yes flake comes in various sizes from Large down to ultra mini flake, the ultra looks more like a coarse metallic, my favourite is the mini flake as its the sparkliest of them all, some people think the big flake is the sparkly one but if you think in square inches the mini flake will have more reflective flakes per square inch than the big flake, that make sense ???

Is being called a "flake expert" supposed to be a compliment? Come to think of it, down in Kiwi land it may be.............

I think the one with the belt trim is a clone, but it makes your point for comparison. Given the likely reflective menageree from the flake the addition of the trim might complicate what the eye sees.

Not sure Bob hadn't thought of it that way

You might want to save this pic i took of Don on a night out

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Is being called a "flake expert" supposed to be a compliment? Come to think of it, down in Kiwi land it may be.............

I think the one with the belt trim is a clone, but it makes your point for comparison. Given the likely reflective menageree from the flake the addition of the trim might complicate what the eye sees.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Is being called a "flake expert" supposed to be a compliment? Come to think of it, down in Kiwi land it may be.............

I think the one with the belt trim is a clone, but it makes your point for comparison. Given the likely reflective menageree from the flake the addition of the trim might complicate what the eye sees.

Remember there was a Swindler A and B or I and II, I don't remember which.

Bob,
Not saying the one posted is or is not a clone - only saw "The Swindler" run once at KCIR back in around '67, and cannot recall beltline trim or not, but the Stone Woods and Cook website shows that they had them both ways over the years. Stone Woods and Cook NHRA drag race gassers willys pittman mazmanian hemi lions dragster vintage

Yep Steve the trim does set off with the blue flake. How about trim around the front grill? Just a thought, might be too much though.

You trying to make work for me Steve