any leads for resto on 41 Willy's?

[sirenmoses]

Met a new-to-the-area wheeln dude: he asked about Heep connections, then narrowed it down to looking for resources for his (sounds like full) resto on a flat-fendered 41 Willy's.

When he lived in Tahoe the Heepers couldn't help him, so he's not hoping for much here. But then I remembered young Dan and his Power Wagons, and....

pm me if anybody wants to get in touch w/him, or has resource ideas to pass along. He's building a home in Rio for the wife and child(s)?, currently living in Evan's neck of the woods.

PS: has an 87 yota p/up, thus my reaching out to ya'll.

 

[Source3]

There is a guy here in Corrales that has old Willy's up for sale every few months. Have the new guy contact me through my website: www.source3.com. My website has my phone number and a link to my email.

 

[sirenmoses]

will do, prolly take a few days, thanks!

 

[DanS HJ-45]

Met a new-to-the-area wheeln dude: he asked about Heep connections, then narrowed it down to looking for resources for his (sounds like full) resto on a flat-fendered 41 Willy's.

When he lived in Tahoe the Heepers couldn't help him, so he's not hoping for much here. But then I remembered young Dan and his Power Wagons, and....

I don't know much about them, but Dad restored a willys pickup before he bought his first Power Wagon. If I could dig out the pictures I'd scan a few to prove it.

As far as I know, the Willys vehicles didn't use many corporate parts, so there's really not a lot of Willys specific stuff to worry about. I'm not even sure if Willys built their own engines or not.

I don't know if there are Willys-Overland specific groups locally or not.

Dan

 

[Cruisergreg]

Compared to old FJXX parts Willy's stuff should be easy to obtain because they were so ubiquitous. Even JCWhitney used to carry a load of Willy's parts. I'm sure there's on-line sources for just about anything if one knows where to look. The flathead four (134) was used in all sorts of things (boats, tractors, etc.) so I doubt there's a lack of parts for at least the engine if someone looks in the right places.

Source3: That guy in Corrales has had jeeps of all types (flat fenders, CJ5s, CJ7s, others) "For Sale" on the side of Corrales Rd for at least a decade. I'd be curious to hear his story as he seems to be a clearing house for this old stuff and always wondered where he got them.

 

[sirenmoses]

Thanks for the input guys.

Haven't heard from the dude, although he has my email and was gonna borrow some chainsaw PPE... oh well.