Nice Job Rick.....
I wanted to show all of you who check out my blog and thankyou for doing so, as I try to keep the site as updated as possible, but when the racing season goes cold, I have to become creative in another way to burn up some of the energy. Surfing on the web I came across Krazy Ricks Chilly Willy Gasser. I opened up the site and low and behold was a gallery of pictures from all sides of the car with the 1967 green and yellow combo war paint. I had to look at it closer, something seemed funny and I realized it was a model. Holy smokes!!!!! Is this ever neat.You never know whats out there until you look. He stated in his posting that we met at one of the local tracks and that he sifted thru my collection of pictures that I display and loved the paint scheme so much that he recreated a model of it. Well some of you may not know, this is the way the car looked before the blue paint job that we currently run. Rick has done an amazing job of just that. This was Berts first year with the Willys and it had a junk yard engine for power. The purchase price of the car was $1200.00 and his wife ended up buying it for his birthday. What a lovely gal. Burt said he found the original sales slip the other day when he was looking through some stuff. Anyway, the car never went as fast as he would have liked it to, but Straus was able to keep the car very consistant and new he could win some races. Wasnt till the next year that he bought another engine which had much more power from a well know altered called “Percy Also” who changed his engine to a Hemi. Heres the link to Ricks forum posting. Check it out and also another new page I have added in the pages section to show off your hard works called “Model Builders Corner” ………Dyno http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t13813.html
At St.Thomas Drag Strip in 1967.