Where was your Willys today?

From San Fransisco to Elk Grove is a bit of trip to go to the park.
Oops. My mistake on the motor size. It is a 327.

Yeah, our family is splitting up this week. Wife and baby are at home. The two big interns and I drove up to Sac this afternoon. They will stay here this week with my mom. My dad and I are headed out tomorrow at for the cabin for a few days for part 2 of fixing the water supply system. Good news: the firefighters stopped the August Fire about six miles from the cabin. We are fortunate in San Francisco to have 24 hour turnaround for COVID testing; we got cleared before leaving to see my folks.

And for the record, there is a park a half-block from our place, albeit nothing like the one they played at in Elk Grove today. :)
 
Probably a 307 with heads from a Corvette.
Got the Wagon's specs from Todd a few minutes ago. I was wrong in the V8 displacement (ha - that's the first mistake I've made in the last five minutes). In any case, here are the specs:

1950 Willys wagon, repower w/ 1986 305 TPI, NV4500 transmission, Dana 300 transfer case, Dana 44 axles. . . . Just getting a the bumps out and a new coat of paint!

I'll see if I can get some info on the HVAC. It looked really nice.
 
It’s just differently incomplete- it has a complete Hurricane 6, manifolds, starter, everything. I’ll do a stock restoration on the 54 I have in a few years...

I have two with complete bodies, but no factory engines.
 
Some time it takes a whole lot of pieces to make a complete Willys. I just found a D18 complete transfer case today, looking for the front output extension housing and shift rails.
 
It was a lovely fall day in the foothills so we decided to go for a little drive.

This is a vineyard of the third oldest winery in California, founded in 1856 by a Swiss immigrant to serve the miners of the Gold Rush.
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it has been a beautiful year for the oaks and for the western broadleaf maples, which grow in the shady hollows.
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We passed through the old town of Volcano, so named because the miners who settled it mistakenly thought the valley it’s in was an old caldera. Volcano claims many California firsts, including the first recorded observatory, theater group, lending library, etc.
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As we passed through town we saw Doug and his 1943 Jeep. He was filling the trailer behind it with leaves. He said it’s a working Jeep and he’s had it since 1964. It’s in really great shape.
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The next thing of interest was this collection of Mack Trucks.
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These old rock walls date back to the gold rush era.
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A little short cut on the way back.
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