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

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Not a great deal of progress recently mainly due to having a bursitis on my Achilles tendon so can't stand on it for too long but did manage a few bits & bobs.
Firstly sorted a top hose out, its a stainless bend cut up and rewelded and has 2 short lengths of radiator hose and stainless clips, it got shot in satin black.











I got my coupe out of storage and someone mentioned the truck was much lower so I took this pic to compare them, not much difference really.








I got to polishing the stainless bed strips as well (god awful job) and drilled the holes in them, i'm using rubber matting on the bed floor so had a trial fit.










I also got to thinking about rear fenders and had a good look around but couldn't find exactly what I wanted but then a pal Nick who owns Pro-Laminates came up with some glass ones, they are virtually perfect but needed slightly enlarging on the radius so a few cuts were made and they spread just enough, I will glass up the cuts next job, then I will cut them to add an inch in the width.











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Great work and that tendon looks not so fun! Do you keep the coupe outside when you have it at home?

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Great work and that tendon looks not so fun! Do you keep the coupe outside when you have it at home?

I got 500mg pain killers Ryan
Yes it lives under a California car cover in the summer, when we have one

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I got some more stainless rod so finished the grill trim.








Pulled the fenders around a bit and re glassed the cuts I made, fit better now but gonna have to an inch in the width to bring them inine with the tyre groove, I want them to stick out a little.









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Not much done the last few days but I had been looking at the front of the hood and thought it looked bland, I didn't like the way the beltline trim finished square, It how the originals were so decided to bite the bullet and fit the original trim in place.







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Hell yeah, now when that beast is all one colour, those chrome trim pieces will give the whole vehicle an original steel car look,I like.

Have you decided what colour and whether it will have a flake added to it yet?

Hope the writing is a better size and how is your foot/ankle now Steve ?

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Hell yeah, now when that beast is all one colour, those chrome trim pieces will give the whole vehicle an original steel car look,I like.

Have you decided what colour and whether it will have a flake added to it yet?

Hope the writing is a better size and how is your foot/ankle now Steve ?

Hi Whip, no flake mate, its gonna be the colour of the scoop, I guess you could call it american red oxide as it has less red in it than ours.
Heel still the same but the painkillers are helping, thanks for asking, It will take more than this to stop me getting on with the truck.

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Hi Whip, no flake mate, its gonna be the colour of the scoop, I guess you could call it american red oxide as it has less red in it than ours.

Hmmmmm, thought Sue would be wanting this one to be PINK, since it's "Her" truck....

Glad the heel is cooperating with the pain killers.

Originally Posted by rspears

Hmmmmm, thought Sue would be wanting this one to be PINK, since it's "Her" truck....

Glad the heel is cooperating with the pain killers.

Not all women are into the 'girly' colours mate.
The '47 is technically Rosie's car; so She chose the colour.
It's yellow.
Man but it's Yellow!
When it came out of the paint shop I looked at it and thought "What have we done!"
But it has grown on me since.

Originally Posted by johnboy

Not all women are into the 'girly' colours mate.
The '47 is technically Rosie's car; so She chose the colour.
It's yellow.
Man but it's Yellow!
When it came out of the paint shop I looked at it and thought "What have we done!"
But it has grown on me since.

Just "poking the bear", jb, giving Steve a bit of a jab about fitting the seat for his designated welder and all around "Girl Friday", seeing if he'd take the bait. Seemed that she'll likely be the one running about in the shop truck most of the time whilst he's working metal to be welded, so maybe she'll pick the "colour"?

So you can park it beside Gary's ( I think that is his name that brought Kiwi Kev's Willy's ) and have twins...

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

So you can park it beside Gary's ( I think that is his name that brought Kiwi Kev's Willy's ) and have twins...

Hahaha you mean Ray Irish mate, I just like the colour

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"Not much done the last few days but I had been looking at the front of the hood and thought it looked bland, I didn't like the way the beltline trim finished square, It how the originals were so decided to bite the bullet and fit the original trim in place."

I like how you can just reach into the scrap pile and pull stuff out... An original hood ornament.
Looks right at home.

Cool hood ornament. I profess to never having seen a willy's with one!

Those trim pieces and hood ornament are a nice addition! Was the ornament hard to track down?