Truck based woody

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I've really enjoyed your build thread. I can identify with it quite well, as I helped my brother "restore"? a '46 woodie back in the late 60's which we had rescued out of my Grandad's back yard. It seems that a gentleman owed my grandad Ples a little money on his grocery store tab. My grand parents ran a country strore at Monkey's Eyebrow, Ky. (True story). Grandad took the car for the money owed and it sat in his yard for several years. If I remember correctly, the car only had about 35,000 miles on it and was very intact, even though the roof covering had deteriorated, ruining some of the wood. I think Charley paid Grandad $60 for it.

Didn't do much to it mechanically, except for brakes and tires and such. We sanded and prepped the body metal and Charles did most of the wood repair himself. He eliminated the rear doors making the Woodie a two-door. It turned out pretty nice for a teen ager first attempt, and was painted Corvette Yellow. He was proud of it and drove it to high school some and during the summer of '66. He started to college at UK in the fall so the Woodie went to the chicken house for a several year siesta. A neighbor who was a body man bought it years later to restore, but never did. I never heard where the car wound up.