{"id":94,"date":"2011-01-17T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:48:47","slug":"41-willys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"’41 Willys Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rick Kimes\u2019 \u201941 Willys is a bad-assed, Hemi-powered, fire-breathing, street machine — and a showcase for Gary\u2019s fabrication work. Check out the gel coat on the Outlaw<\/em> body. It\u2019s as glossy and flawless as most paint jobs. There\u2019s a lot more to see underneath\u2026<\/p>\n

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The chassis, supposedly designed for these bodies, was an inch off in the wheelbase and two inches too wide up front. Gary rebuilt the front-end with shortened A-arms and adapted the spindles to run spindle-mount Americans. The chassis also got motor, body, and roll cage mounts.<\/p>\n

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Rather than sandwiching the glass floorboards, the roll cage bolts to chassis-mounted risers inside the cab.<\/p>\n

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More of Gary\u2019s wheel work. The full aluminum interior is fitted with Dzus fasteners and can be removed from the car in under half an hour.<\/p>\n

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The center console and controls for the RideTech<\/em> airbag suspension.<\/p>\n

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The firewall kick panels hide the car\u2019s wiring and electronics.<\/p>\n

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The Funny Car-inspired instrument pod was all handmade.<\/p>\n

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The mount for the RideTech<\/em> compressor and battery\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026 is hidden beneath an aluminum cover.<\/p>\n

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Gary fabricated mounts and a Dzus-fastened shroud for the Griffin aluminum radiator.<\/p>\n

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Rick\u2019s original plan was to run the Willys sans hood. Gary suggested a partial hood that would highlight the engine and intake stacks, but hide the radiator and related mechanicals.<\/p>\n

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Gary built the grille surround\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026 that frames the Moon tank (which now serves as the radiator overflow).<\/p>\n

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Tail light bezels and housings — first welded, then turned on the lathe.<\/p>\n

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Handmade headers and collectors.<\/p>\n

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Gary converted the Crower fuel injection from mechanical to electronic, then bent up all new plumbing.<\/p>\n

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To ensure good manners on the street, a progressive-style bell crank throttle had to be designed and built.<\/p>\n

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Adapting spindle-mount wheels to the Mustang II spindles and brakes required fabbing custom rotor mounts.<\/p>\n

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The rear disc brakes also required custom mounts.<\/p>\n

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Rick\u2019s Willys has gone off for paint and final sorting, check back for more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Kimes\u2019 \u201941 Willys is a bad-assed, Hemi-powered, fire-breathing, street machine — and a showcase for Gary\u2019s fabrication work. Check out the gel coat on the Outlaw body. It\u2019s as glossy and flawless as most paint jobs. There\u2019s a lot more to see underneath\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past_projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1I3Pf-1w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}