Thread: My 41 willys

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I hope you're planning to drive up to Puyallup this next weekend for the Goodguys shindig. Bring your tape measure, pictures of your car, a camera and a notepad. There should be quite a few Willys there. If you approach most owners respectfully they'll be happy to share their experience and maybe even let you crawl around the car for measurement purposes once you let them know you're part of the "secret society". Even the glass cars should be informative, and will be in greater number than the steel ones. Someone may have dealt with the issues you face in a way that will inspire you.

The Willys passenger compartments were small in the first place but with the amount that has been taken from yours already I would find it very difficult to drive with any reasonable expentancy for comfort. Believe me when I say from experience that trying to put seats big enough to be easy on the tush and still have leg room, even for short guys like me, is a challenge and then with the size of your firewall box and tunnel shape, you will find it hard to have both a brake and throttle without the tendency to hit one or the other when you don't want to. I know you want to keep it as correct as your father-in-law had it but perhaps he wasn't far enough along to really understand the drawback as well.
With both the sentimental value and the market value that your car will have you owe to yourself, and to the next owner, (let's be realistic somebody else will own it even it it is your kids), to make it as driveable and thereby as valuable as it can be.
John