NewOldWood

Did you steal it......or were you just driving it like you did??

Any progress on resolving your window glass issue? I see you have the dovetails and strikers mounted in the B pillars, what kind of latches are you using? Interference between the latch and the window regulator/track can be an issue. Are you going to add the two horizontal dividers to the door panels, and the one in the quarter panels and tailgate?

Build wood cars all week long and then Friday night gets here........and I do this. Pertty sure I wouldn't have predicted this 30 or 40 years ago.......

Another Teak Corvette wheel, in the box and out the door...

I use this stuff quite often. If it's not exactly what you want and have a few minutes to browse their site they have a pretty good variety of window rubber. https://www.dkhardware.com/auveco-4588-setting-channel-product-4659863.html

My first thought too. Commonly available in either 2" or 2-1/4" under the head, both have 7/8" of thread. Flatten off one side of the head....seems like it ought to work.

Other than having 15 acres, this is me!! Couldn't have written a better description of myself,myself!!

Making the tailgate door panels out of molded plywood without some very expensive equipment that I do not have would be quite time consuming, so I take a different approach. I make a mold from the door frame and lay up a fiberglass panel from that, then veneer over the fiberglass. There is more labor in the tailgate panels than the rest of them combined. That's it for the panels. Still have a few windows to install and lots of trim to make.

My fight is with Kudzu, Chinese Privet, and greenbrier,(along with a couple other annoying thorny vines). I've been here for three years now and am finally getting the upper hand. Keeping ahead of the native growth is bad enough, but the kudzu and Privet are self inflicted invasive species.

Someone liked it, it's gone!

I've got room! I'm in Alabama too, the old girl would feel right at home!!

The start of what is looking to be quite extensive patchwork on a 1950 Plymouth woodie wagon. The owner likes the aged look but in some places I have no choice but to start over. Where I can I will try to hide the new wood inside the old, build some structure back into it without changing the look.

12 volt? Is that a modern alternator? Maybe it came out of the same pickup truck as the diamond plate tool box.

A while ago I did some work in a well known custom car shop. Everything they build uses a manual transmission so everyone there knows how to drive one. One day a new project came in, a late 60s Chevy pickup with a three speed on the column. The head fabricator, a guy in his late thirties, got in it and couldn't figure it out. I watched him and it took me a minute to realize that he had no idea what he was looking at. "Three on the tree" I told him, he had no idea what I meant. I have an old square body Chevy with the old granny low 4 speed in it that I use every now and then when I need to move something heavy. I can't go anywhere in this thing without someone wanting to buy it. I was out the other day and of coures someone was looking it over and commented on the stick shift. "Modern day anti theft" I called it. Old guy, he just smiled and agreed.

I had a wheel restored recently here, can't remember what it cost but it included replacing all the spokes, chrome, etc. This was from a 37 Gar Wood but he told me that the wheel was the same one used on a 36 Hudson, if I remember correctly. I thought he did a nice job on it. https://qualityrestorations.com/

The shape of that panel wont let it bend into a convex shape. It does bend both vertically and horizontally, but it's more of a twist, more of a spiral or conical shape than convex. It's a lot of fun to fit....

I have the gaps around the doors pretty much set except for the tailgate doors. Inner and outer panels for the sides are made and have some of them installed. the plywood in the rear door window opening are glass patterns.

The door frames are all built. The latching hardware is installed in the four front doors, don't have the parts for the tailgate doors yet. Working on cleaning up the gaps on the front doors and then veneering the panels.

I've never really been comfortable being described as an artist. To me the artwork was in the design, i'm just reproducing it which I have always seen as more technical than artistic, but thanks anyway!

I had this wheel restored recently. He said he replaced all of the spokes. I think he told me this wheel was used in a 36 Hudson, in my case it's in a 37 Gar Wood. https://qualityrestorations.com/

Coming along on the tailgate doors. This will be the end of the major fabrication. Nowhere near done yet, panels, trim, hardware, and final fitting will keep me busy for a while yet.

I never saw the car but that's what I was told. What makes you question it?

Maybe take it back, but not at anywhere near the full purchase price. Stupidity should be painfull.