I celebrated a few days early. Scored some 1928 - 1929 Ford Woodie Wood recently and it was delivered late last week. Not quite as nice as my 40 Woodie's beginnings, but other than the insert panels most of this will be reused. Door reads "eastlook" in rope letters. I guess I was a good boy this year.
Is that a Murray body tag on the lower right front door? There must be a story behind this starter kit. Is someone repoping the rear fender wells? Merry Christmas! Bob
I took this Murray tag off a doodle bug over 40 years ago. It has a locator stud and a threaded stud, guess they drilled two holes in yours to mount it to the wood.
AWESOME!!!! Makes for a nice christmas. I myself will get more coal to add to my collection.haha Bill
Nice one Jeff! The beginnings of another Tuesday night Tub Club?? Happy new year mate, will catch up one of these days when I bring the missus over that side of the country
you kill me. I am telling you, you should have been playing the lottery. but then again, I think you hit the jackpot a few times last year....
Very cool Jeff! Congratulations! I'm sure it will be another slick ride from the shop of Sawzall Tony
Congrats on the new splinter box project. Some history of the name would be cool. I'd say good luck but that's a no brainer! I know it will be cool. Can't wait to see the progress.
so 2020 was the year. back in July I found a low mileage original 29 wagon in new jersey, although It was completely dis***embled I bought it and started re***embling it.. during that process I realized that now was the time to do something with this car.. around the same time I realized that an opportunity to spend a week with my dad would present itself in late august, and because we live several hundred miles apart, I knew that this was an opportunity on which I needed to capitalize Many years prior to me finding this body, my father and I had purchased a Ford Model "A" ch***is from a barn in north central pa. and for many years it sat in the corner of his shop.. I convinced my dad that 4 or 5 days would be the appropriate amount of time in which to accomplish the task of ***embling the body to the ch***is.. Using the "eastlook" body, some of the cast iron parts that I reproduce, some sheet metal parts fabricated in my father's shop "yeagles fabrication" and armed with dimensions from the my second 1929 wagon, I was perhaps overly optimistic a week prior to my planned departure, I was only missing front fenders and splash aprons and thanks to facebook marketplace I picked up a set of fenders just before heading north.. I'm happy to report that the process went fairly smooth, dad and I didn't argue, throw wrenches, get upset, or yell at one another.. Thus ensuring that we will never ever make it on reality tv, but perhaps providing an opportunity to ***emble another soon Some may criticize the car as its weathered body shows a great deal of "patina", however the experience of working side by side with my dad is something that I will remember forever.. thanks dad..
Cool project you had with your Dad. There is something so special about the sound of a door closing on a Woodie. Bob
Jeff, where in heck do you have the time, you're like the Energizer Bunny. What happened to the Sportsman?
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