I vote that we establish the "Mt Picket Jailbar Association", GB President. All in favor .......

 

An "Association" assumes someone else besides GB has a jailbar. I think he owns them all...

 

Not yet.... And I only have ten acres. Ok now wife and I headed into town to go grocery shopping in the tonner panel!

 

Thought you lived in LA?

 

May 2010, "She who must be obeyed" attended a 3 day NACE confab in Seattle. After it ended, we drove to Anacortes, took the ferry to San Juan Island, spent 3 days there.

Then we drove east on highway 20, stopped in Sedro-Woolley to meet up with an FTE member, then drove east stopping along the way in Winthrop, Twisp, Brewster to Grand Coulee Dam.

Then we drove south to Pasco, then drove along the north side of The Gorge (we've driven the south side R/T twice on previous trips), then north back to Seattle (Sea-Tac airport).

Actually, "She" drove, while I looked at the scenery, the old rolling piles of misery scenery, that is.

 

Wow, sounds like a road trip! I love road trips and poking around back roads and remote areas and such. I was stationed at Ft. Lewis and always heard great things about the Twisp area for hiking and camping but never made it there. Hwy 20 runs just past here, so not much excuse.

"Roll On Columbia, Roll On, Your Power Is Turning Our Darkness To Light"

 

I am a Washington native. It is a funny state. Wet as (HE double hockey sticks) on west side and like a desert on east side. Best way to do rust repair is to drive over the pass and buy dry trucks. We can be home for dinner and snoozing in own bed and unload the awsesome tin in the morning.... And they like us cleaning up their yards!

 

Yep, we used to deploy "over the hill" to the Yakima training area, pretty much total desert there. Good times, good times.

 

Sorting it out and this is still the first of 4 trips.... Maybe the cowl for the truck based woody

 

Yesterday's load. Some darn nice tin but not perfect. There are a couple of really solid 1/2 ton running boards under the panel truck, 2 hoods inside it and he gave me a really nice steering wheel he had hanging on a nail. I think the panel once belonged to Bonnie and Clyde . Still one more load next week which will include the tonner 'pickup', the 9' script bed, 2 extra panel truck side doors and the 8ba engine. This cab is off a 157" 1 1/2 ton. Stopped by and picked up the 7.50 x 17s on my way home. It's a very steep and winding mountain pass to Twisp Wa over hwy 20. Lots of 30 mph in second gear winding out the 7.3 NA up the long grades. Not a big fan of driving that pass, I really wanted the stuff to do it 3 times...

 

Another panel!! What's the plans for it? The way you go after stuff and get it done, that one should be up on the mat in a couple weeks, eh? Get any back doors with it? I ended up with 2 sts, both rough and it will take them all plus some tin to make 2 workable ones.

 

I'm working on him. He has a set he's keeping for his '39 panel. I may be able to get the '39s doors and we'd switch belt lines. Sounds like a tough job to me and the 39 doors are rather beat. He is a really nice guy and I don't want to be too pesky about it. I think I will end up with a set, otherwise they will be made of wood. I have a vacuum press and can laminate them from layers of 1/8" marine plywood and get the compound curve. Not saying it would be easy. As for getting any of this new batch running, I have to get back to work in the cabinet shop. We have a big job to start soon and need to tie up loose ends, which I've been leaving a lot of lately.

 

I had once thought about wooden doors too. With your skills you could make a nice set. I haven't spent much time looking but haven't found the rubber for the windows yet either. I'll be on the title thing soon I hope. I talked to a friend with a wrecker service yesterday and he will do all the paper work (a process that a private individual can't use) for $75

 

Got home from my 3rd trip last night at 11:30. I had pulled out at 4:30 am and was over the pass (with light snow) in Twisp by 9:00. We loaded the tonner on the trailer, set the 9' script stakebed on my '92s 9' flatbed, then place the 8ba and a 223 six on the stakebed. Then we started with the smaller parts. I was VERY fortunate to be able to trade for his less than perfect panel rear doors. They are not rusty, just beat up a bit. I also got a panel passenger side door. Well, now I was loaded up and on the dry side of the state so I had to check craigslist and about 2 hours south were 2 tonner front fenders that looked great and were very fairly priced so I called and also asked what else he had. Turns out he had lots of parts hanging on the walls of his garage. He had just finished a '46 truck with jag front and rear and a flathead six with headers of his own manufacture. Very nicely done and very unique.. I bought some good used jailbars, a front panel with a full set of jailbars, 2 rear pickup fenders, the tonner front fenders, 4 headlight bezels and 2 parking light assemblies. Had an early dinner in Leavenworth and crossed a different mountain pass (Stevens) and ended up in Everett, right next to Marysville where another Craigslist truck guy had an 8' bed and tailgate from an'52 F3. This went right onto the frame rails of the tonner I had gotten earlier in the morning. When I sold my '37 1 1/2 ton last spring, the buyer paypal'd me 2 grand for a deposit. I thought this went directly to my business account, but when I used paypal again couple weeks ago to confirm the money from another sale I found I had 2 g's of truck money in there.... What's a red blooded American guy to do? Spend it on more trucks and parts! Pictures to follow as they are all on my phone and when my 34 year old employee shows up he can show me the best way to get them from the phone to here. I'm still trying to wake up. That was a long day for an old guy, but the panels doors were worth the trip in themselves.

 

Few pics from yesterday's adventure...