While
on vacation on Maui I looked up Willy, aka 2loose, whose work
I had been following on the
Jockey Journal. Willy is 71 years old and still actively
building cool bikes and cars and even dragracing. |
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We
visited Willy at his house first, which by the way he had also
built himself, where in front of the door was parked his '58
Pro-Street Chevy pickup. He races this thing on the dragstrip
but it is is also fully street legal! |
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The
next car we saw on the driveway, was Willy's '55 Chevy pickup
that he had converted to 4x4 with an '70 Oldsmobile 455 engine
out of a Toronado, and Ford axles. The bed has been widened
6" and the rear fenders 2" each. Also street legal! |
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The
car that Willy was working on when we arrived was this '55 Chevy
gasser, which Willy started building after seeing the movie
"2 lane blacktop". Believe it or not, this one is
also street legal and Willy drives it over to the dragstrip
when he is racing except when the roads are wet (because of
the slicks) |
Click the above pic
to hear the gasser running
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This
is the project that originally caught my attention on the JJ;
a '59 panhead in a Strociek frame that is going to be fitted
with a Jerry Magnuson Roots-style Blower, sweet! |
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Willy
asked if we wanted to see more, ofcourse we did! He told us
to follow him, which we did in our brand new rented Dodge Charger
which had a hard time keeping up with the '55 pickup. He took
us to an old farmbuilding which was now the headquarters/mancave
of Old Dudes Maui. He introduced us to another "Old Dude"
who was also called Willy, and they showed us all the projects
they were working on: |
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Click the above pic
to hear this monster running
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It seemed like these
Old Dudes were not letting their age interfere with there
having fun at all! We really enjoyed meeting these guys and
left feeling inspired and a little bit jealous, coolest old
dudes I ever met!
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