September 2025 Update
Well its October, so that tells you how fast September went.
Couple big posts from September:
Holy Toledo Calendars
They are out and about, if you subscribe to The Dispatcher and choose the Calendar option, you should have it and its a great one, if you are not a Subscriber, I highly recommend you check out the Magazine and the Calendar, head over here to check those out.
The Willys Reunion
The Fall Reunion was held early in the Month and had a great turn out; to check out some of those pics you can see them here.
http://willysreunion.com/fmwrphotos.htm
The Jeep Meet Up in Cle Elum WA
Jim held his event in Sept and it was a good one from what I head back, sorry no pics to share, if anyone has anything happy to post up, send a link or some photos over to post@willys.com
Notable For Sale Ad’s
Larry’s Collection
Larry is looking for a buyer of his collection; available separately, package, parts, pieces, can answer any questions that anyone has please reach out to him.
I am tweaking the way we handle these kinds of posts, so just keep that in mind as we work through this you might see stuff stay up, come down, pop back up from time to time. It’s a work in progress for me to figure out our way here.
Frank’s CJ-5
Frank is still looking for a new caretaker for his one owner CJ as well. I really like his CJ, it’s a neat one, fiberglass body and tilt nose, with a hard top and neat cover on the back part.
Shifting Gears……
1N7 Willys Update
Missed what 1N7 Willys is? Well it’s a small space we are physically building out here in NJ to share our working Willys with folks, will have working engines and useable displays for folks to learn on. Have space to hold small classes and put on presentations. Its a work in progress, but making headway.
We have been busy on our 1N7 Willys building, we are working on a collection of manuals and literature for the space, the painters spent most of Sept painting and cleaning up the space, I starting the lights and ceilings in the office area, it’s a lot of work so little at a time. I expect to move over the Tornado collection this month, the L134 Run Stand, and some other stuff. It’s a really neat project for us and hope to share with folks as it comes together.
We will have some cool working displays and running stuff folks can work on, some tech displays and the sort. I saw a really neat vintage Snap On display that was for old school troubleshooting of an ignition system, that really is the kind of stuff I would like to have in the space to have folks be able to come in and learn the old technology and see stuff work, not a static display.
Outside of the Willys World
It’s been an exciting month, turned the page on our Training Center for my day job, this has been a really fun project, challenging, but super rewarding to get super close to the finish line on a brand new Training Center for our staff, looking forward to its opening soon. This takes a lot of time away from eWillys but it’s what makes this all possible.
Also for work this week while not quite Sept was able to attend an event in NYC where they happened to display one of the new all electric Nascar race cars. They had a small panel discussion with a Nascar engineer and it was a neat show, I need to figure out some Press credentials for eWillys! But it was cool to see while not Willys related might as well share.
Even got to meet Ricky Bobby, it was a pretty fun experience they put together! (that’s not me in this pic), but he was in the room after and we all shared some laughs.
