Been having street rod type thoughts for a while and really didn't want
the average deal... so I bought a 47 Willys wagon to have something cool as a
daily driver... it's been street rodded up front with a 302, C4, and a Mustang
II front suspension... Nothing fancy trust me...
Found it on E-bay before speedweek this year... Ed VanScoy was kind enough to
store it for me for a couple of months and two weeks ago I did the blast to
Phoenix to pick it up.... 3600 miles in 3.5 days with a 12 hr layover at Ed's
place... ( thanks Linda for making me stay )
Got the junk home and started working on getting it running in my spare
time... LOL like I have had any of that with Drag week and Maxton as well as
running the business and remodeling a rental property.... Sooo anyway the junk
finally runs and I took it for it's first ride in the neighborhood.... the
only thing missing was a Milk crate to sit on... other then that all of you
have done stuff like this before... you know were your so anxious to drive it
that you don't care about the little stuff.... you zip tie stuff in place just
to take that first ride... and in my case you twist a couple of wires together
to make the head lights work cause it was dark for the ride this early in the
morning...
First impressions.... Wellllllll lets hope it gets better... there are pogo
sticks in the back that resemble Shocks.... matter of fact it would be a great
place to put a set of shocks...there's some there already that look just like
them...... Mustangs didn't have much for brakes... or at least I've owned
Healeys that braked better.... ( with no fluid in them )....
But other then that it runs and drives.... maybe someday it will support the
Aluminum open trailer for Maxton trips.... ( you know the one that's not built
yet... )
Keith
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