I’ve had a life-long obsession with the iconic Willys coupe, which began while watching my brother Tom racing his 1960 Pontiac at the local Cordova Drag Way in Illinois. I always kept my eye on the other lane where the familiar Willys gassers were staging. Eventually, I bought a Willys coupe and worked on it until I enrolled in a trade school, and then the military draft forced me to sell it. But I vowed to one day have another Willys!
Years later, the time
