The Pro-Street Flyer

Willys didn’t produce two-door coupes in huge numbers, but the plucky independent had an outsized influence on drag racing and hot-rodding. Quarter-mile heroes like Big John Mazmanian and the Stone Woods and Cook team built high-riding, gas-class drag cars topped with compact, lightweight Willys bodies and powered by howling supercharged V-8s. Hot-rodders also snapped up Willys coupes for street use in the postwar years and, decades later, the aftermarket-built reproduction 1933-’36 and 1937-’42 coupe (and pickup) bodies for street rods.

But aside from their trim proportions and drag-racing legacy, Willys