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Classics by the Beach: November, 2022

It's probably ill-advised to begin an article by being a smarty-buttocks.  But here I go anyway, writing stuff lots of people are unlikely to give a rodent's bot about or may even dispute.  However, I'm pretty confident that those in the know - owners and lovers of Willys vehicles, in particular - will appreciate the pedantry ... . Willys is pronounced Will iss , with the y making an i  sound.  There's no apostrophe; the Willys company does not belong to Willy but was founded by Mr John North Willys. And now that I've lost the remainder of my already very modest readership, we can move on to discuss this very nice early- to mid-1930s Willys 77 pick-up, photographed at November 2022's instalment of Hobart's Classics by the Beach.  According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_77 ), it's powered by a 2.4 litre four cylinder engine that gave what in its day was considered excellent fuel economy - just short of 30 mpg - and allowed for a top