When your cool, the cars shine all the time!:cool:

A-typical magic touch work, Bill!
We have been truely blessed to have you here among us, hey!
Man, I just love seeing these wrecks come alive under your care. :thumbsup:




(Jer, ya lucky guy!)

Bill the Rubber Band man Chassis maker, Willys body expert and best buffer of all times! Glad to see you are finding time to slot cave man.

Bob...great pics and toot-torial...zilla

Bill,

When you started going through the reason for using 2000 and not stopping at 1500, I knew you had to be from around a body restore or paint shop. Back when I was kid living at home, there was a guy about two doors down from my parents that was restoring a '56 Mustang convertible. Well, instead of pestering him and being the anoying kid from 2-doors down, I started helping him. What I recall was something about taking the paint job down to 2000 grit wet sanding before we buffed that car out. MAN that was a job and a half! But you are right, when we buffed that red out, WOW! That car shined even in the dark! And you are right, it had a finish that you could nearly read just about anything it would reflect.

I think it was about 2-3 years later that the guys sold the car and I nearly broke down in tears thinking about all the time he and I spent on it! LOL! Aside from that, I had a few vehicles repainted and let some guys I trusted do some detail work on them and recall the painstaking methods taken to get the shine quality back in the paint. What was always interesting for these guys I knew was to have to just paint a quarter panel and then get it restored to the rest of the cars finish (which was somewhere between the original factory finish and the junk yard - HAHA!).

There is definitely an art and an eye for pulling out the paint like that and I think it's awesome that the same thing you do on 1:1 cars will work on these scale model plastic cars!

Thanks for sharing Mr. Hall!
PD2:thumbsup:

More good stuff from the great northwest coast!!! I likes them shiney cars, HO and 1:1. It's time consuming, but sure makes heads turn!!! Great work Bill!!! RM

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Someone posted one of these not too long ago. I used a coupla ciggy box aluminum hubs for pullys.

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At this point performance is average t-jet-like...I havent had time to toy with it much.

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Hey Bill ,
can't wait to see how this belt drive ends up . Mine was quite but speed was average too. I never did much to remedy that but suspect the rear pulley getting enlarged would help . I know you will find a way to get more out of it so i want to see what solution you end up with ! Very cool stuff as allways Bill:thumbsup:

Bear :wave:

I still like that one T-Jet chassis Auction bill found with the Tyco can motor installed by melting the plastic and shoved in there. It was wired and geared to go....jet pro? T-PRO? Pro-Jet?....it was wacked but, cool.

Bob...wind power car was sweet also...zilla

So far I'm pretty disinterested with the Rubber Bandito...but ya never know, it may spark my curiosity down the road sometime.

Not real happy with the arm....I picked a dud, which is odd cuz I generally test pretty thoroughly and toss all questionable units in the core box...Then again maybe it just chose to go dud at the time.

The top side of the original t-jet gear plate is a little over a 1/2 reduction. My toss together arrangement is more of a 1:1 drive so start up is not overly exciting. Certainly the oversized rear tires arent helping matters much either.
Using my barn door calculator the rear pulley should ideally be around double the diameter of the front to help wake this thing up...and maybe drop the tires down to something around or a hair less than .400.

Of equal or greater concern is the transmision of power from one end to the other. The tension required to keep everything spinning without slippage AND not let all the smoke out of the arm is a very fine line, unlike the free wheeling mechanical advantage of the stock gearsets. If you look close at the gearplate you'll note that I did have a third tensioner pulley that was offset from the original idler gear boss (see the lil' hole there?) This arrangement proved to be overly snug, however I may revisit it when a suitable rear pulley is found and I can get the mechanical advantage swung back somewhat in my favor.

Truthfully I'm dubious of this arrangement ever being anything but a novelty and for the interim I have filed it under "got better stuff to do right now". :thumbsup:

So far I'm pretty disinterested with the Rubber Bandito...but ya never know, it may spark my curiosity down the road sometime.

Not real happy with the arm....I picked a dud, which is odd cuz I generally test pretty thoroughly and toss all questionable units in the core box...Then again maybe it just chose to go dud at the time.

The top side of the original t-jet gear plate is a little over a 1/2 reduction. My toss together arrangement is more of a 1:1 drive so start up is not overly exciting. Certainly the oversized rear tires arent helping matters much either.
Using my barn door calculator the rear pulley should ideally be around double the diameter of the front to help wake this thing up...and maybe drop the tires down to something around or a hair less than .400.

Of equal or greater concern is the transmision of power from one end to the other. The tension required to keep everything spinning without slippage AND not let all the smoke out of the arm is a very fine line, unlike the free wheeling mechanical advantage of the stock gearsets. If you look close at the gearplate you'll note that I did have a third tensioner pulley that was offset from the original idler gear boss (see the lil' hole there?) This arrangement proved to be overly snug, however I may revisit it when a suitable rear pulley is found and I can get the mechanical advantage swung back somewhat in my favor.

Truthfully I'm dubious of this arrangement ever being anything but a novelty and for the interim I have filed it under "got better stuff to do right now". :thumbsup:

Ahh yes .... i do see that hole now ! Also i see you used the older patent applied for top plate. Good choice there too . BTW Bill if you do decide to revisit this project i have an assortment of aluminum rims etc i would be willing to send some of to allow you to work on this project ? Say the word and i'll start diggin . BTW where did you come up with that white belt ? I have orings assortments but nothin in white ?
Bear :wave:

Thanx Bear,

They are ouchless hair bands from Wallmart. Comes with three sizes S - M - L. I used the lil size. The package contains eight jillion or so fer two bones.

I was actually looking for dental bands at the time. These were cheaper than dirt, and not much better quality. Truthfully they suck, however price was right for a whimsical R&D 'speriment.

They have lumps and flash, not overly cooperative or elastic, disintegrate under too much heat or stress and are basically disposable ...again as the price would reflect.

LOL!

Standard blue and green really take to the buffing wheel, always my favorite to work with.

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WHAT SHINE!!!:eek: I didn't know a 40 year old plastic turtle would do that!

Does this mean we can call you Billy Meguiar now?

Rich
The SIMONIZer:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Wax on :wave: Wax off :wave:

For those who follow along I do actually finish a car now and then...LOL...but I often forget to snap a pic.

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This red Toro had some serious ringworm, the roof had been rototilled, a hairline crack in the hood, and some mangled pillars. Red's hard to pic. Sadly my photo skilz dont do this car justice.

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This Cougar wasnt overly ruined with damage, just some grenaded screw posts and tons of flash to trim away from the window surrounds. Typical of some later T-jet offerings....sloppy sloppy! However; yellow is one of the harder colors to polish...and like white, grey, and tan they are often deeply stained.

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The green Mako exceeded expectations. Next to hot rod windsheilds and header pipes the Mako pillars are probably the weakest and most broken area of any T-jet; yet they are the easiest fix of the bunch because there is NO detail sculpting after they are installed. Pretty much a cut, paste, and polish

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Here's the Slate XKE with everthing filed down and some initial polish work. Under macro you can easily see that it needs just a little more pickin and diggen with 1500 to straighten out a few warbles. Pic'ed below is where we started

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I am frequently asked how to get pillars back to original form. This pic tells the tale if you look. A chunk of rocker scrap is used. It is prepared much as one would prepare a raw peice of wood...planed and joined to a rough approximation. The top end was rounded to fit the gotch in the roof, the vertical crevice was filed in, a small line was cut to approximate the drip rail, and finally it was trimmed to length from the scrap/sprue and bonded in.

Like most everything else, the bulk of the work is prep work. The better the fit, the less time you spend on the finish.

Sometimes I will crude polish a car in coarse compound. This helps me see mistakes before they happen.....sometimes :rolleyes:

Here's a few examples

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See the two diggies at the ten oc'clock position to the lock cylinder? That was dirt or some remnant 320 grit that was under my paper in a latter stage. That will NOT polish out...well maybe in a thousand years if ya keep after it.

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Good days and bad days...snicker. In the crevice are some missed scratches ...again probaly 320 that were missed in 600 but fluffed down a bit in 1200. No big deal here...except the nasty dark inclusion on the fender, off to the right in the two o'clock position. UGH! No doubt I stuck my brush a little deep into the jug and pulled up some bottom sludge. (Insert Yosemite Sam cursing spree and gun shooting here!)

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So now we went from a cut and polish to a full on goop re-spray. These 600 scratches in the door will still have to go. Although the finish may lay down sweetly right over the top; the odds are you will have a warble there when the top coat cures out fully. Still have some minor cutting and squaring to do around the door handles otherwise they will be door blobs instead of knobs after the spray.

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The transition between hood and fenders is a good place to spend extra time. Still blocking on the hood a bit as there were some 320 feather edges right up next to the windsheild wipers. Final color will be vibe blue (See Split's Jag below). I'll keep dinken and picken in 1200 and leave the pre spray finish in 1500.

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Nice job on the toro, cougar and mako!! The jags are incredible!!! I don't know how you do it.. I have a hard time just drilling and shaping holes for LEDs, and you're maneuvering tiny niblets into place!! :lol: For now, goop is is the future projects pile, as I am hopelessly buried in stagnate started projects (mostly missing parts to complete) and may never dig myself out of this rut!! SP will be proud to have that jag in his stable.. No doubt about it!! Nice!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Just another Toronado; but the contrast in black again illustrates a different form of the "blend".

Typically you'll see me color blend a car with two busted pillars by also blending the entire roof panel and terminating at a rear window seam and or feathering off down the "B" pillar; depending on what it has (how it is styled).

For those who havent been around a paint shop, the blend is the bag of tricks that a painter uses to trick the eye into not seeing what is right in front of you....a repair ...LOL! More over it's also about saving time and materials whenever possible.

In the case of this black Toro the roof was cut down with 1200 to descratch-i-fy it. The first layer of fill went down thin and subsequent layers have been piled on to get the necessary thicness to re-sculpt the details. Obviously your gonna slobber over into adjacent areas.

As the roof requires no repair the blend area will be pulled back into the seam detail where it is busy and the eye is tricked. The roof will be blocked off to remove any offending off color tells so that they all fall invisibly into the seam.

It is the exact opposite of a Mako roof blend where the blend is expanded to include the entire roof panel.

Nice job on the toro, cougar and mako!! The jags are incredible!!! I don't know how you do it.. I have a hard time just drilling and shaping holes for LEDs, and you're maneuvering tiny niblets into place!! :lol: For now, goop is is the future projects pile, as I am hopelessly buried in stagnate started projects (mostly missing parts to complete) and may never dig myself out of this rut!! SP will be proud to have that jag in his stable.. No doubt about it!! Nice!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Joe! The secret is to leave the sprue long....like an inch at least, or longer, if ya can swing it. Think of it as sculpting a long extrusion. Sculpt a big long piece of it to make it easy to handle then nip it off to the correct size...like elaborate cornice moldings for home interiors. You wouldnt whittle the details into a small piece... ya just whack a chunk off the big already made piece.

Admittedly it did take me a year or so to finger that trick out... duh AND d'oh! :tongue: :freak:

BTW: Split's Jag was done sometime last year.

Beautiful work Bill! I love that black Toro!

Very nice craftsmanship, I mean workmanship, or a, I mean tediumship. I guess all the above. Makes me proud to see the products of your skills. Not a whole lot a folks in the hobby near as talented or near as ambitious as you is....
Tjettom

Hi,


don't forget to show us the result of this car ! It's already great looking ! :thumbsup:


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making tjet modelling is a way harder that people may think ! I ruined a ferrari 250 myself...but I'm lucky because the seller gaves me (really, I appreciated) a second spare body !

eight jillion or so ouchless hair bands is quite a find. Man all of these cars are so shinney and Perty!

DROOL!!!!

DROOL!!!!

Win is exactly right, shiney cars do that to ya, at least to me anyways!!! Getting these little buggers to look that good is work!!! Good looking stuff Bill...thread should read "Modeling Magic" instead of "Model Murdering", just my thoughts...RM

they look like candy

Nice stuff Bill, really nice stuff!

Pic'ed below is the end of my most recent modeling binge. We took a few parade laps in the olive XKE late last night....er ....early this morning. As time permitted yesterday, I stripped and Alcladed the bumpers, buffed up an NOS chassis, and polished a chunk of glass.

I had forgotten how bad this Jag was until I pulled up this pic...

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Dont worry about originality much around here. My attitude is kinda like Cartman's..."I do what I want!" I like to dot tail lights, door handles, wipers and latches.

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I can now give up my quest for a decent olive XKE. Really not my favorite car or styling of this model; but I seem to fix a lot of them for folks and have half a dozen in my collection.

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Demether, Here's Jeff's blue XKE that was completed last year sometime. It arrived with nothing below the bumpers and a coupla gunshot wounds in the hood. The valences, bumper pockets and surrounds were all hand sculpted from a scrap T-jet Dino. If memory serves. The final finish is Aurora Vibrator blue.

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Guyz, Many thanx for riding along and all the kind words! :)

Especially the turn signals and brakelights on the Green Kitty. :thumbsup::thumbsup: nd

Agree: Modeling magic from Great Workmanship on all the cars!! Fantastic Craftmanship!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Really enjoy riding along. ...RL

Amazing work and incredible patience! The hands of a surgeon. They look better than new.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Pic'ed below is the end of my most recent modeling binge. We took a few parade laps in the olive XKE late last night....er ....early this morning. As time permitted yesterday, I stripped and Alcladed the bumpers, buffed up an NOS chassis, and polished a chunk of glass.

I had forgotten how bad this Jag was until I pulled up this pic...

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Dont worry about originality much around here. My attitude is kinda like Cartman's..."I do what I want!" I like to dot tail lights, door handles, wipers and latches.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f30/modelmurdering/DSC06223.jpg

I can now give up my quest for a decent olive XKE. Really not my favorite car or styling of this model; but I seem to fix a lot of them for folks and have half a dozen in my collection.

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Demether, Here's Jeff's blue XKE that was completed last year sometime. It arrived with nothing below the bumpers and a coupla gunshot wounds in the hood. The valences, bumper pockets and surrounds were all hand sculpted from a scrap T-jet Dino. If memory serves. The final finish is Aurora Vibrator blue.

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Guyz, Many thanx for riding along and all the kind words! :)

And the blue Jag is about my mostest favoritist car, not just because it is BLUE and a Jag, and not just because Bill fixed it up perfectly. That car was bought in a cheap lot of junque, and as Bill described, came with literally less than expected. I sent it to WA with the comment "fix it if you like or melt it into something useful" or something similar, and really expected the latter. The car was on life support, and somehow the plug wasn't pulled! Instead you got this picture!

The address may say there's just a house there, but there is a t-jet fountain of youth hidden inside. :thumbsup:

Bill ,
your in a league all your own pal ! That's some sweet work and i love to follow what you do next .

Bear :thumbsup:

Funny guys...but thanks

More like hands of a Sturgeon, and a league of my own puts me in with the Bad News Bears.

Slowly but surely I'm trying to weed out my commitments and thus clean off my bench. I originally lost the collecting bug because customizing overtook my passion in the way of little cars. While the resto work is satisfying, in that it hones my technique; Tom pretty well hit it on the head..."tedium". The confines of coloring in the lines have taken it's toll and really is too closely related to collecting for comfort...LOL!

Now the HT elders are snickering to themselves, "Yeah, yeah, we've heard this all before!" Little by little I've whittled it down to a dozen or so cars and a coupla chassis mods. For those of you still hanging, I appreciate your patience.

Last year or so I committed to revsiting stalled projects and mockups, of which I have so many. While I have made some one potato two potato progress, the need to finish has overtaken. Tugging equally is the fact that I have made 0, zero, nada, progress on my track. This huge goose egg on the track build scorecard might be the greatest motivation at this point. This is due in part to all the great track build and renovation threads we've witnessed ...AND the fact that I kinda know where I want to go with things now.

So as of right now and effective a month ago or so, Model Murdering has closed it's doors to the public. Look for reprises of old forgotten projects, maybe some track tinkering, and a return to the freedom afforded by customs.

Many thanks to all who have supported the cause. :thumbsup:

Here's kinda how it goes for me anymore; the ol labour of love meets up with the fatigued old love to labour and once again reminds me of my aged limitations that have somehow managed to sneek up outta no where to get me.
Many times I look in hindsight an cringe just thinking of doing another project that I had previously done.For an unknown reason,once I finish a project,I seem to loose all recollection of the tedious efforts involved and even give the work away.
Sometimes a beatin would be easier to take and finished a lot quicker.
I do feel the pain!
(Old) Tjettom Baker

Great explanations, I love to read that.

By the way, I didn't know that XKE, and I think I'll buy a resin repro soon... ;)

While I will miss MMtv greatly, I completely understand what you are saying. The archives are there as an awesome resource, as long as the pic's and vid are there... Time for some fun builds. Time for the outside of the box thinking. Go wild and do something unconventional!! And give Gus a pat for me!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::wave:

I think it would be a great idea to make this thread a sticky!! All in favor???

I think it would be a great idea to make this thread a sticky!! All in favor???

all 56 pages of it, a very good idea. I have some projects (likely sitting until the grass stops growing in 4 months or so) that could benefit from tutorials enshrined herein.

I think it would be a great idea to make this thread a sticky!! All in favor???

While I appreciate the sentiment; let's not entomb me yet! I'll still be tinkering along...just at a more leisurely pace.

I'd like to think of it as a transitional phase. I fully intend to continue my HO-micidal tendencies.

While I appreciate the sentiment; let's not entomb me yet! I'll still be tinkering along...just at a more leisurely pace.

I'd like to think of it as a transitional phase. I fully intend to continue my HO-micidal tendencies.

That thought hit me after my head hit the pillows last nite. Bill ain't leaving!! He's just switching gears...taking the scenic route! Time to take the goop to the next level!! The beauty of the Model Murdering thread is the fact that it is applicable to so many different facets of slot cars. Once the initial shock wore off I realized you'll still be around to keep the thread active. The customs you have done, be it chassis modifications or body customizing, have graced the pages here before. No reason why they shouldn't continue on right here..
You have covered just about every possible repair we could ever encounter and salvaged what most of us would deem impossible as per our capabilities.
Any more would be redundant, unless you come up with some breakthrough miracle that people like me with two left hands and all thumbs can master!! :lol:

Bill,

This is great news!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see you Enjoy total Bill Hall build time! What comes out of your cave now will be some Fun Stuff for sure.

Thanks for fixing my Blue Funny ( :lol: ) car for me. Time for me to get more serious about the goop but, not right now. Have some Phsssssssssssssshting to do myself &, your goop technique has been used in many of my painted customs so, for that I thank you Bill Hall. :thumbsup::thumbsup: Everyone should have a bottle of goop or 2 or 3 or 4 etc, etc, etc

Bob...I've got to be me...zilla

A great big THANKS!!!
for the cars you have repaired for me in the past. Can't wait to see some of your custom builds.

The man has goop in his veins!!! Can't wait to see some more creations myself!!! RM

Just takin a breather. He'll be back. ;) Took me a year + to get back into doing customs of any kind. Just cranking out a few here and there as I feel like doing. :) Hang in there Bill! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Dave

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This split pillar became a problem and refused to cooperate. I broke it twice during profiling and sanding. In this case it's best to cut it back and re-apply filler.

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The close up shows how far into the upper drip rail you need to go to effect a repair with little or no tell. Note how the natural break between pillar and drip edge flows smoothly into one sweeping line.

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After sculpting the pillar is glazed to bring any fubars to light. Without glazing any detail sculpting remains a mystery until proven otherwise.

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The repair area is pulled well beyond the actual targeted fix, but not wildly either.

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Again it's not uncommon to slobber (blend) over into the next panel. It's a good thing, as it ensures an invisible transistion from the upper door sill to the A pillar in this case.

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The B pillar is more often than not part of the deal as well. Ideally the repair is blended into each adjoining panel and feathered off. There was some nickage here so we just continued on down and feathered it out as well.

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Here's the money shot. Black is not the easiest color to blend, but I'm quite pleased with this repair. If you look close you can see the mirror image of my camera and fat fingers.

While the repair area should ALWAYS be invisible you should take extra time to ensure that the big three surfaces (hood, roof, and trunk) are properly finished as well. Mom always said no matter how clean yer room is if the bed isnt made... it doesnt matter. :rolleyes:

Note: The recently shown restored cars of the red Toronado, the green Mako, the cream Cougar, and this black beauty, all belong to Santa in July Claus. Due to unforseen complications at work I was unable to get my sled across Mt. Walker and up to Pt. Townsend to fullfil my duties as Santa's Elf.

Consequently Gus and I decided to pour on the coal and get a few presents ready for Santa instead.

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This set up is a set of front spoker wheels from a HW diecast....er....now a deadcast. The brass tube acts as mandrel to center the set up in the chassis holes ...and allows the use of garden variety sewing pins as kink fit stub axles. Took longer to pic and bucket it than it did to make. Occasionally something actually works out without a root canal being involved.

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I'd been holding the scoop back until the rest of the tinsel was figured out. A G-plus Formula 1 thing if memory serves. Pipes are courtesy of a Dash Super Modified canabalization...please pretend they are tucked up properly.

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While I dont know what, I do know where ...LOL! The molded grill has been shaved and the front valence has been smoothed down to 1200. I'll cut various templates and see which style of cutout appeals.

This car was detuned some time ago, just after it's maiden voyage for general track purposes; as the build was headed in the direction of a clean neat sleeper rod. I can clearly see that while muddling along things got out of hand and we're gonna have to put the tiger back in the tank and fab something in the way of wheelie bars to complete the look. Form and Function I suppose.

Wooly's Willys is shaping up reeel nice... nd

Hey, now THIS should be good...:thumbsup: Willys.....yeah.....Dugga dugga dugga BRAP!

I like this new version of MMtv even more than the other version!! Happy to see Gus still employed as camera man..errr cat!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Great pix! Love the black salvage job. :thumbsup::thumbsup: The front end axle works is a killer too! You guys are great! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: rr

Man, I'm glad you found the bufffer!!! Seeing a shiney car makes me smile ;)
Seeing those headers hanging gets me excited, I must admit!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: I likes the shaved door too. I gotta show this one to the boys at the shop...RM

she's a hottie!

That Willys is gonna be a screamer.....
Looking Good :thumbsup::thumbsup: