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UPDATE: Mac’s Motor City Garage published a post on the Aluminum Alcoa Jeepster. Two or three were made. Only one is known to survive according to Jim Allen.
https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/willys-overland-oddball-the-1950-alcoa-coupe/#more-55876
Those are so cool. There’s been a rumor around here for year that one of those is at the bottom of a local lake. The story is that goodyear had one to do some tire studies. They had it out at Wingfoot Lake, where the blimps reside, to do some photos of it. When they had it on a dock, the dock broke and the coupe went to the bottom. I’ve heard this from several people, but tend not to believe it as the average depth of the lake is only 9′, and why would they not just pull it out if that happened. Once nice thing is that lake is now a state park, if I had some side-scan sonar on my fishing boat, I’d go out and look for it.
You had me all excited when I saw that title…. then I see that it’s just a poster! haha… my paypal account couldn’t fund a real one anyways!
There were two of these made, one went to Goodyear Tire and the other was to go to ALCOA, however, Willys kept it and it was bought by the Chief Chassis Engineer at Willys, Miguel Ordorica. His son, Miguel still has the car in Michigan. One of the cars had a Jeepster frame with the large X member under it and the other car, Miguel’s has a station wagon frame under it.
Interesting .. so we don’t know what happened to the one that went to Goodyear?
No, in my correspondence with Miguel Jr., he doesn’t know what happened to that one either.
Great history. Thanks for posting as well as all of the comments.
I little bit Studebaker in looks
Are there any recent photos of Miguel Jr’s car?
I have a photo of the one that exists somewhere in my computer. It’s a cobalt blue one. If we had our show in Toledo, he was going to bring it. It does look a little Studebaker.