The whole front end, wow. I hope everybody at Willys was real happy with what they could make sheet steel do! ... But the faired-in headlight shells: Can they have been part of the larger stamping, or would they have been stuck to it? And if the latter, welding, bronze weld, or ... er ... solder?
I'm almost 100% un-hep as far as cars are concerned. But fuel tanks on Norton motorcycles of that same year were soldered together (and looked rather aggressively homely where their bits were joined).
Dave, the taillight lens are different. The headlight nacelle looks really awkward and expensive to produce. The top looks molded, the bottom seam looks added on later, so is the whole nacelle installed, fastened in place and then the top surface is smoothed in with leadwork?
My father bought a 1938 model new but sadly had to give it up when he joined the Canadian military less than a year later. He still regrtted it in the 1950s and 1960s when automobiles had become shoddy.
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Does that REALLY say $400 or BO?
No, sorry. If it did I'd own it. It was actually (gulp) $16,000.
That is a cool plate lamp. I can't tell for sure but it looks like maybe the right side has the same lens?
The whole front end, wow. I hope everybody at Willys was real happy with what they could make sheet steel do! ... But the faired-in headlight shells: Can they have been part of the larger stamping, or would they have been stuck to it? And if the latter, welding, bronze weld, or ... er ... solder?
I'm almost 100% un-hep as far as cars are concerned. But fuel tanks on Norton motorcycles of that same year were soldered together (and looked rather aggressively homely where their bits were joined).
Dave, the taillight lens are different.
The headlight nacelle looks really awkward and expensive to produce. The top looks molded, the bottom seam looks added on later, so is the whole nacelle installed, fastened in place and then the top surface is smoothed in with leadwork?
My father bought a 1938 model new but sadly had to give it up when he joined the Canadian military less than a year later. He still regrtted it in the 1950s and 1960s when automobiles had become shoddy.
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