August 2025 Update

Summer flew by as it always does, it was a pretty great Summer this year with lots of adventures and work getting done.

Decent email traffic and requests for ads to be posted

Had some more postings for sale that people emailed over, I decided to add a shortcut to the right side Widget Bar for this sorts of ad’s For Sale or Wanted. Was also able to make some connections for some folks who do not have FB that wanted to get in touch with the Seller. That can be hit and miss, I try to vet out the Sellers as best as possible, I look for a real profile and then that profile has friends and the sort. It can be hit and miss on the emails as well so I do attempt to look at where the emails are coming from and the sort. Nothing is perfect and we have had some fake ad’s get posted which I immediately take down.

There are others that are just plain fraud but are real ad’s and they are impossible to get removed, but if I’m notified we will fix it ASAP.

Most of all be vigilant when your shopping, if its too good to be true it probably is. If they offer tons more then they should it’s a huge red flag. Lots of phishing schemes and the sort out there to get your Willys Bucks!

1N7 Willys Update

Finally got started on our NJ Willys HQ, got some carpet taken out, painter is on site and we should have the front offices looking pretty nice by the end of September. Excited to get that project off the ground, one of the hopes and dreams for this space is to house one of almost each type of Willys Engines and have a place where folks can see the older technology and then even test and tune on something old. Will have some fixtures of a Front and Read Differential, so stuff like that. Got to just take it how it comes as I have a lot of other projects for the family and my day job takes up a lot of time. But its all fun.

Yellowjackets, super aggressive this time of year becareful!!!!

This weekend was all about the Yellowjackets, I had to battle 2 big nests, one at my place and one at a buddy from works place, I use a vacuum that has a long 1-1/2 Pipe that keeps me away from the nest as best possible then move forward as you suck them up to get them removed, it’s a process for sure. These are not the happy bee’s that can co-exist with people, these are aggressive and do not belong where the nest are built and are a hazard to kids and pets who might disturb them. So more things to take away from Willys time, but has to be done.

Family Time

Kids started Soccer this year, their first year out, that’s been an adventure, I played as a kid and always had a fun time with it growing up, hard to try not to say anything from the sidelines, but have to let them figure it out their way and the coaches are very helpful and supportive of brand new players as a bunch of them are figuring it out for the first time. This is very similar to how a Willys project goes at times, there are a lot of things that many of us have never had to do before and just need to be patient and take it as it comes and keep plugging along as we figure out these new “old” rigs.

Let us help promote your events and Willys Adventures

As always if you would like us to promote anything or an event please let me know, email post@ewillys.com

The Fall Reunion is this weekend in MO and looks to be a great event, if you are in the area it is one of those you will probably enjoy it if you have never been before.

All of these events are typically run by some level of volunteer staff and their families, then the great Willys Vendors step up and provide what they can so that these events are possible, so please support the event and their various vendors and sponsors!

Happy Labor Day!

Hope everyone has a great Labor Day, looking forward to what September brings, its kind of like the a second new year’s with School starting back a great excuse to get refocused a bit before the cold creeps back before we know!!!

Daily Email, maybe? Work in progress

One thing that was requested via email was for eWillys to go back to sending daily emails when there were new posts. I started looking at plugins to do that, does not appear the site supports that currently, but there are some options for that to happen. So we hear you and thanks for sending in those sort of things, if they are on your mind you can bet someone else is thinking the same thing, so it help us when we know about that kind of stuff. There are some technical challenges and opt in process that needs to be looked at, but I have started the process and gaining knowledge about the way it all works.

Ad’s

Ad’s are back off again, they put us in the penalty box for some unknown reason, so I just decided to turn them back off. I thought I had a really good balance for the ads and it was down to 3 clicks for a new visit, and had a sequence of when the ads would show and the sort. Well they had better plans and after I thought I got it all worked out they said we violated some policy but were not going to say exactly how it got violated, it’s a cat and mouse game. So I just turned them back off if they want our traffic they can come back and ask for it. The Header is the only ad currently, I keep the Header active so the account stays active, it turns about 0.30 cents (USD) a day off that ad. It was fun figuring the system out and proved it will pay for all the site costs and some upgrades, but I don’t need to clutter the site up with the ad’s at this time, so leaving them off for now. If that needs to change and we need to get them back will push that down the road.

Hope everyone had a great Summer and their Willys projects are moving forward!

Thanks, Tim