Map of our drive west this week. We plan to return that same route, unless a weather change directs us differently.
Early Sunday morning we head for Minnesota on our quest to retrieve the Parkette bodied racer from Dave. If all goes as planned, we’ll be in Mora on Tuesday late morning.
Unfortunately, it is pouring rain this morning here in Prosser, so trip-prep on the trailer will have to wait until the expected sunnier weather this afternoon.
Given we’ll be pulling our trailer there and back, we won’t be doing much sight-seeing. We do plan on meeting with a reader in Montana on our return trip. It turns out that one conversation between him and I radically changed his family’s life and I couldn’t be more happy for them. More on that later.
reading e-willys has radically changed my familys life — i spend all my money on willys parts and vehicles — can you loan me a dime ? — no ? well how bout a gasket set for a f-161 hurricane ??..
Vernon, I am pretty sure you were a radical before ever reading eWillys … what do I look like, a bank?!?!! Sorry, I don’t have any F-161 stuff.
– Dave
Hey – Joe DeYoung has a NOS fiberglass one piece flip front like that
Dave
Thanks David. Maybe I’ll need that some day 🙂 … The jeep came with two front clips (the yellow one and one in better shape). I am sure I can repair the yellow broken one, but I plan to alter the grill’s look to something slightly different given the grille is destroyed, which is why the yellow front clip works well for me. I think I can refiberglass it into something different looking like this: http://www.ewillys.com/2021/09/25/1948-cj-2a-fort-mohave-az-16500/ or like this: http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2007/10/nuffield_repo3.jpg (Nuffield airborne prototype grill)
– Dave
– Dave