Thread: Oh no not another Willys Gasser build, this time a Willys shop truck

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Hmmmm............and all along I was thinking gravitex was slang for a fat chick from Texas. Your threads are always educational Steve..........

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Hmmmm............and all along I was thinking gravitex was slang for a fat chick from Texas. Your threads are always educational Steve..........

Hey Bob everybody knows that fat chicks are the tightest

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Went and collected this today, its not the nicest thing in the world but it has a fairly decent rear panel which will save no end of work, its been well butchered in places but dimensionally fairly correct, once I graft our 41 front on it it should look much better, once its all nice and straight we will mould off it. It will certainly save a lot of work & time.

I won't be keeping the outstanding firewall






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Hell mate, replace those screws on the firewall with some stainless ones and you are good to go. You did mention that this was to be a work horse so the purple paint may just look okay as is.....

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Hell mate, replace those screws on the firewall with some stainless ones and you are good to go. You did mention that this was to be a work horse so the purple paint may just look okay as is.....

Its not as good as it looks in the pics Whip
Isn't the web great, I just had a message from the guy that made this body, he recognised it by the Purple gelcoat, it was the first one he ever made 20 years ago !!!

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Thanks for the info on the gravitex, and nice score on the cab. Hey, at least there's no rust in it.

Nice work,Steve.. Best place for those chains..Inside the bed.. Real kool looking bed,that.. Hey,,wondered what those tailgate catches were called...hehe..Lookin goood....

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Thanks for the info on the gravitex, and nice score on the cab. Hey, at least there's no rust in it.

Good point Ryan

The laminator made up a new front section from the coupe mould so last night we had a bit of a play around.











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Well finished the fence first thing so got plenty of brownie points then more or less spent the rest of the day measuring, then measuring and then measuring again !!!
Decided where the join will be between the 2 halves and laid a plan out for the recess in the firewall. It was really a 2 man job but no one was around today, will have to get Gomez back to lend a hand

Also a few bits & pieces arrived, door locks, handles hood hooks & willys side trim, the eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed the cab is a 40 with the wipers above the screen, the coupe front is a 41 with wipers below the screen and has an extra swage line the 40 doesn't have plus I like the wipers above the screen, hence my cut line is below the 41 wipers, the side trim is the correct half round 40 pickup deluxe trim, the coupe trim is peaked.










These fenders caused me quite a bit of head scratching as I couldn't get them to fit right at first, until I realised they were the ones Mr Noble had used for mocking up his body and he had cut a bit off them sussed it in the end though








Door hinges are polished stainless steel, these were not available when I did my Coupe so they were chromed, these are much nicer and not much more money.







Door locks are Bearjaw type, I don't usually use bearjaw preferring an older style latch but these were cheap !!!








Willy Reproduction Parts chrome door handles







32 Ford hood hooks, probably only need 2 as I intend to hinge the hood








40 pickup deluxe side trim







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New parts are always FUN

Looking nice,Steve.. Love that ol' Y block..

Originally Posted by cffisher

New parts are always FUN

Absolutely Charlie, I open around 150-200 boxes of shiny bits each week, unfortunately they are not all mine

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Originally Posted by lamin8r

Looking nice,Steve.. Love that ol' Y block..

Yeah I love all of the vintage engines Robin, just picked up a 409 W motor in pieces, just need to find something for it to go into, The Y block has a lovely distinctive sound all of its own

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Those 409's are getting hard to get and expensive from what I've heard on this site.