Mike Brattland's 1938 Willys Pickup Build Pictures / wb4
2/12/2005 mgbrattland@gerlecreek.com mgbrattland@gerlecreek.com |
After picking the car up in Huntington
Beach, we hauled it back to San Diego, stopping at a scales in San Diego to
weight it.....It weighted about 1960 pounds complete, minus the original
radiator, gas tank and the rubber on all four wheels, which were the only
missing parts on this all original 1938 Willys pickup which started life in
Colby, Kansas, then was passed to Colorado, then to Dallas, Texas, before being
sold to a guy in Huntington Beach, Ca. This fellow tried selling the car and the
spare front end at the June and August, 1995 Pomona Swap Meet without luck. I
was planning on attending the August 1995 Pomona Swap Meet, but at the last
minute missed it. My best friend, Pete Cowper, from Visalia, Ca attended and saw
the pickup. He spoke with the owner, getting the information on the pickup and
giving it to me after the swap meet. I realized after talking to him, when he
mentioned the funny writing on the truck, it was the same truck which was
advertised for sale in the GASSER GOSSIP in April 1995 in Dallas, Texas. I had
called about it, but it was too far away. So I immediately called the Huntington
Beach owner, made a deal and went and collected it.