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May 14, 2009

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34 Ford Woody Station Wagon

The previous entry just didn't have enough pictures, so I had to post another blog to get these pictures in. Click on the photo to see the birdseye maple close up. Wow! The wooden body assembly starts with these two pieces of wood. The running board rail, and center post. The Center Post is bolted to the frame, and to the metal front seat housing. The center post is also mortised into the running board rail with a bolt running through the rail, and the tenon of the center post. Then the wheel well frame is attached, and then the rear quarter panel. After that was done, the roof was put on. Of course it didn't fit the first time because there was some welding to the cowling that slightly changed the fit, but with a handy block plane it was made to fit in no time at all. Yeah right. Here is a rear view of the car with newly added dual exhausts. For you Ford purists you will note that we stayed true to all of the shapes of the molding, and even though the car is a hot rod, all...

34 Ford Woody

This blog has past five thousand views from Woody fans all over the world, so I thought I would post a little re cap of the progression of the 34' Ford Woody Station Wagon. She didn't look like much when we started, but the potential was evident that this could be a spectacular car. My employer, and owner of the car had been stockpiling eight quarter Bird's Eye Maple for many years just waiting for a car like this to come along, and for the right person to make it happen. Was it fate that we both showed up around the same time, or just luck? I'll let you be the judge. I thought I would show the car as it progressed. It looks like it happened quickly, but it took about five years to complete this car as we had to work on it between paying jobs. The mechanical work had already been done by the former owner who made it into a hot rod sporting a 350 Chevy engine. Here you see it completed before varnishing. I totally disassembled the car ...

37 Ford Woody's West Coast Debut

Well, it's been awhile since I finished repairing, and refinishing this baby, but after a visit to the outfitters for a new vinyl top, and being rewired she finally made her west coast debut at the Wave Crest Beach Cruiser Car Show in Huntington Beach on March 27th, 2010. Originally this car was from upstate New York, and had been kept in a barn on an estate there until being purchased by my employer. She was a real cream puff mechanically, but needed some serious love and care, which I have written about in an older post. Did I say cream puff? Well, sitting next to it is the antithisis of cream puff. The signs on the windshields say before, and after, but the green one on the left never fell into this kind of disrepair thankfully. There is some talk that this could be one of my next projects. Do you think I have my work cut out for me, or am I in some serious hot water here? Believe it or not, this car still runs, but it has some serious wood issues that need to be addressed ...

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