What I said at #91. $$$$$$$$$$$

 

That's more rare than ME not having a smart aleck remark. I'll take that as a S. Dakota compliment! Sometimes I wake up at 3am unable to sleep and it takes everything in me to not go down to the cold unheated shop and bust a few moves on this thing. I have the wood, I have the engines, I have the steel for the bracketry and it just pulls me like a giant rare earth magnet. I'm a sick individual.

 

ll, I was thinking it wood (play on words) make a great paddy wagon. A jailbar jail wagon...........

 

Pretty sure your ancestors were the flathead tribe from Montana

 

I don't think we have enough felons on the island to fill it up. Not since my 4 kids moved to Seattle anyways. Actually just a few car wrecks and minor drinking infractions. Normal stuff. My oldest son graduated from U of W but at one time spent 5 nights in king county jail... on work release and worked at a super fancy downtown restaurant. They let him out at night to wait tables, like at a Wa state mayoral conference. All those mayors had no idea their wine steward had just zipped out of his orange jump-suit an hour before. Well enough of that. They are all productive citizens today.

 

With any luck at all your helper may take another day offYou sir are a master in your craft.

 

Well, Danny ended up spending 2 nights in the hospital with a bleeding ulcer. I picked up the ball and kept work going but over the weekend I worked on getting the belt line correct on the woodie. The '47 woodie wagons had a triple bead but my commercial trucks and woodies had a bead like this. I decided to incorporate the commercial truck bead in maple to mimic what Henry and the boys designed.

 

Hope Danny is on the mend! That woodwork is looking amazing as usual. What are you planning to use to protect/preserve the wood?

 

That is a good idea. You plan to use metal front doors correct?

 

No, all woodies I have seen except for morris minors use wood front doors. I have kept the scale the same as the pickup so I can steal the roll up guts from regular doors that are rusty. The second (backseat)doors will have slider back and forth windows. So much easier and normal for woodies. The rearmost windows on mine will be a fixed piece of glass. It doesn't get hot in Western Wa....... Tailgate is what we always had when we were kids. Drop down/fold up.

 

The early photos showed the panel truck front door I installed temporary so I could extend the lines of the belt line and window bottoms aft and get a constant flow of body contour. That's why I hung it on there.

 

Thinking a thin oil finish at first and let it age outside for a month, then old fashioned marine varnish. Nobody leaves these things out in the driveway anymore. I can't do body work to match a yacht varnish job on new wood, so I hope the whole vehicle when completed will look a bit 'aged'. Not beat up like my tonner panel, just not showroom new.

 

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Nice!! Do you have a shaper you do that side molding in?

 

Just a 20 year old 3hp router in a router table. When a job calls for big custom moldings we have a big millwork outfit produce them for us. Then we pass that cost onto the customer and add 20%. This belt line took 2 cutters that I already had, and then some hand shaping to fine tune. Worst part is sanding out burn marks in rock maple.