Truck based woody

[sidevalve8ba]

GB,
I ran across this photo on the Internet the other day and thought you might enjoy seeing it. Seems that it is from Brazil. I don't have any details on it.

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by sidevalve8ba

GB,
I ran across this photo on the Internet the other day and thought you might enjoy seeing it. Seems that it is from Brazil. I don't have any details on it.

Thanks Ted, That's a really cool rig. I'll ad it to my collection of woodie trucks.

[GB SISSON]

With a holiday weekend I found some time to install the grille and I have been wiring up the horn too. I now have maybe 250 miles on the overhauled engine just running around this past week. Temps are really warm for the Pacific NW. In the high 80s low 90s, so who needs windows? Speaking of warm temps, I got my roofing material and my J shaped drip rail. Tuesday is supposed to be te hottest day next week so the plan is to stretch it over the top and fasten it down.... Not sure what year my bumpers are. Two different sources, but the same. Not '42-'47 but earlier. They are sort of pinched on the ends. I like them. I also wire wheeled and painted the insides of the front fenders with a brush. They will go on soon.

[38bill]

What material did you end up getting for the roofing?

[mhsprecher]

It is really coming together.

[GB SISSON]

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I bought a 10 x 10 piece of 60 mil Firestone EPDM roofing on amazon for 97 bucks. 50 year guarantee. Looks like it will stretch nicely on the rear corners. It came on Friday and I plan to get a couple friends over tomorrow because it will be almost 90 in the afternoon. I also picked up a 'J' metal drip rail from an RV place, aluminum with black powder coat. It is 1 1/8" high and has holes on 6" centers. This was 32 bucks for each 16' section. I found some black #8 x 1" screws on amazon to fasten it with. The long grain vinyl I can find is 2" too narrow for my truck woodie and so I would need two pieces with a seam. Reproduction woodie gutters are something like 600.00 and too short. I will get some photos once it's on. Got my front fenders on today. Ran out of daylight to get the hood back on but that is close. Finally starting to look like a car. Or is it a truck?

[Bill]

Repeat this ten times IT'S A WOODIE! Got it? GOOD...Good luck with the top.. Bill

[flatford8]

Man I can't wait for you to take us all for a ride......Mark

[GB SISSON]

I keep adding parts. Paint job will never win any shows, but My steep 1/2 mile gravel road eats paint and spits it out.

[meric42]

That's awesome

[Chris]

My friend Chris Carter just sent me pictures of your woody today! You got the truck from him, but before that he got it from me! I got it from the North Idaho/WA border area.

I love what you've done!!

Chris

[Chris]

He also got that 1/2 ton panel from me too. I wanted to build it, but it just didn't happen. I got it off a farm right near Eastern Washington University. I love the stars and stripes you can barley see painted on it. It had an old rotted wood door built on the back when I got it. I removed what was left and cleaned it all out. I pictured some hippies living in it haha!

[flatford8]

I think paint looks great. What did you use?....... Mark

[GB SISSON]

That was a great fall, two years ago. I made 4 trips over the North Cascade hiway hauling jailbar trucks from Carter's place. Funny thing I called Chris about this collection he was selling and after a short phone visit we realized that his Dad's brother is married to my wife's younger sister. They live on Vashon Island near Seattle. The pass over the Cascades in that area is very steep and high with lots of wild dropoffs, many without guard rails. One year after these pics were taken I lost the duals off the '92 at 55 mph with a huge load of timbers on board. Lug nuts had backed off. So glad it wasn't on the pass. As for the paint it's krylon rattle cans. The green is their 'dual' (paint and primer in one) and the color is 'camp green' satin. The Yellow trim is called 'whipped apricot' satin. I feel it's pretty close to tacoma cream.

[Sid the Maineiac]

Have truly enjoyed this build and hope you enjoy this vehicle to the max! Great job! Thank you for sharing!

[GB SISSON]

Thank you Sid. Sometimes I think I am far too 'wordy', bringing in stories about relatives and writing a paragraph when a sentence will do. I seriously live in the middle of nowhere and even when somebody DOES drop in, they certainly aren't lovers of vintage fords and flathead V8s. This site as well as FTE have added a great new dimension to my workaday life. Thanks all who have chimed in. GB

[GB SISSON]

So a couple of friends dropped in this afternoon to help stretch the epdm rubber roof. We used some contact cement in critical areas and I will trim the edges after work tomorrow and start trimming out with the aluminum J shaped drip rail. It went quite well and we had a few beers and christened the vehicle with a bottle of champagne...

[Bill]

Glad it went well. Many hands make light work in this case! Looks like the inmates are runnin' the joint.Was at Wavecrest in Ca. this weekend there were no jailbar woodies present..Bill

[GB SISSON]

One of the guys came back the next day and we made some hand formed copper corners as there was no way the aluminum J metal would go around that compound corner. I sawed them out of heavy sheet stock in a sort of boomerang shape and Tim tapped them into shape with a dome headed hammer on a soft cedar block. They will be painted black. I still need to make and add the strip at the windshield and between the rear corners before final trimming of the rubber.

[flatford8]

Post #426 is awesome!!..... good friends, a few beers and a new truck that you were able and talented enough to build yourself.
You’re a rich man GB!!!...... Mark