Picked up a "Classic Trucks" magazine at the supermarket. Can someone please take pity on me and explain the following two terms:

shaved (as with door handles, etc). It appears that this means to remove door handles and fill the resultant holes somehow. I suspect either copious amounts of bondo or sheet metal or both, but don't know.

filled (as with stake pockets, etc). Again, it appears that this means to fill a hole with bondo or sheet metal or both, but don't know.

Are these just both words meaning the same general act? They sure seems to write and phrase as if they are different things. I'se confused.

Bob

 

Shaved is when something is removed. The emblems and door handles have been removed for a cleaner look.
Filled is when a hole is patched over. The stepside stake holes in the top rail have been covered but the pocket side remain on the box but are no longer able to be used.

 

Sure, it's pretty much self explanatory once you hear the explanations. They ame out of the 1950's when "Lead Sled" customs were the big deal. Shops like Barris Brothers, Valley Custom, and others in SoCal coined these terms.

Shaving is when an object bolted on outside of a body, like door handles, hood ornaments, bolt on emblems, trunk access items like locks or handles, and so forth are removed, and all provisions for mounting are smoothed over to give a clean, appearance. Like as in "clean shaven".


Filled is when any indentations, cavities, holes etc have a piece, or pieces of metal fitted in and welded to bring whatever opening or depression is/was, up flush & even with surface it was in. License plate indents, stake pockets in pick-ups, old "cowl vents" in 30's & 40's vehicles are a few examples of what would be filled. But any place where additional material is added to cover, fill, level, or hide an depression or hole is what filling means.


While I'm at it, Frenched is another term. Something is Frenched when it is "set into" the panel, body, fender, etc. Sometimes item which is Frenched is placed behind the sheetmetal, other times it is merely inset into it.

There are also Chopped, Channeled, Sectioned, Pancaked, and other terms for specific operations that alter vehicle body sheet metal. Lurury Sedans are "stretched" to become limosines, hence they are called "Stretch Limos". . . .

Hope this helps you some. . . FBp

 

After I get done walking the walk, guess I'll have to learn
how to talk the talk. Man, this is complicated.

Any idea why the term "frenched" was used? Versus, oh, say, "inset"?

Thanks!

Bob