1936 Terraplane panel delivery update

dave s

Our son, JD, came to garage this weekend and we have most of soft top framework completed.

Browniepetersen

The top looks great. Do you plan to varnish the inside or did Hudson paint it a dull grey or something?

dave s

We are using ash wood, as was used originally. I doubt they were ever stained or varnished, possibly painted. ( It was a 3/4 ton delivery truck.)

I am going to use Minwax golden oak stain and satin polyurethane.

Here is picture of Hostetler's top. Ours will be lighter,

Browniepetersen

I like that look. There is just something classy about natural wood inside a vehicle. This is going to be one great ride, cannot wait to see it on the road.

onerare39

Kind of like a Batesville Autumn Oak?

dave s

gutters are on and entire body is painted. Here is Ken in his glory! I couldn't do it without him.

dave s

Notice the reflection in the paint

Marconi

WOW!!!!!!!!! Looking Great!

bent metal

Looks great!

More pictures.:)

dave s

Here is another angle showing gutter over rear door section.

dave s

Here is inside of top insert

dave s

What will look like with doors on

dave s

Tires and rear fender are installed

faustmb

Looks great! Glad to see another one of these brought back, better than new

dave s

Today, we installed rocker panels and running boards. Taking off for weekend and am going to try to make Undercoffer's meet tomorow and Western Reserve Hubbard meet on Sunday.


Here is where this project started, as Big PAUL said, "you have to have vision"

dave s

I went out of town to business meeting and returned to find Ken had installed rear doors before he left for week vacation. Great Guy, couldn't do it without him!

Marconi

Hi Dave, if you hurry you can have it at Okie City!!!!! LOL

hudsontech

Yeah, you could drive it to OKC!!! If you shudder at that thought think about this. Back in 1979, at the last Cannonball run from Darien, CT, to Redondo Beach, CA, Terry Erlich and Dave Brownell of Hemmings Motor News, along with a friend, took the 1937 Ford Panel truck HMN had at the time, and entered the race. It did take them nearly 62 hours (61:51) to do it - but they made it. Theydid have a fresh 1947 59AB flathead V-8 under the hood, but, hey, a 212 six should be able to do the trip with no problems. LOL


Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

dave s

Put rear bumper and guards on today and made bracket for left tail light and license plate. I don't know why, but it looks blue in picture. Ken made panel for between rear fenders and has it primed. He will paint it next week and we will install it.

[Deleted User]

Super nice build. Great watching the progress. Another beauty brought back....

bent metal

Awesome job!

How is the drip rail attached?

Can we see pictures of the belt line molding?

Marconi

Dave and Ken, My hat's off to you, one heck of a great job, that thing's gonna knock people's socks off!

dave s

Thanks for kudos. Drip rail is attached with screw nails every 2 inches, as it was originally. We drilled thru gutter and sheetmetal panels and predrilled the ash framework so the nails wouldn't bend. Drip rail was made by using two 12 foot lengths of extruded aluminum rain gutter from mobile home. We made a jig and carefuly heated gutter with map gas and worked metal to jig. We used light gray calking strip between gutter and body.




We have not made the belt line molding. Original was rusted too bad to reuse. I had set of dies to match original made for bead roller and we will see how we make out in next month or so. We still have a long way to go, but it is coming.


I am anxious to hook up clutch linkage and make sure everything is ok with drive train before we have it all together. (Man who rebuilt motor and transmission is now deceased and vehicle has not been driven since rebuild.)

Thanks to quite a few club members, I am getting a lot of information and needed parts or leads on them. I think I have almost everything we need, other than chrome external horns. My son, Nick, found me two right side horn bases and one trumpet for it. I am interested in any parts that will help me complete set, so I can have them plated.:)

bent metal wrote:

Awesome job!

How is the drip rail attached?

Can we see pictures of the belt line molding?

RL Chilton

Dave-

Looking at the pic of the original condition, and of pics I have on hand, I have a body question for you:

On the side of the truck, at the rear and underneath the drip rail, it looks as though there is a vertical curve that runs down the back corner. Is this an applied molding, or was the original body slightly different. The pic of the refurbished truck doesn't appear to have this body curve on it. Just curious.

Russell

hudsontech

RL Chilton wrote:

Dave-

Looking at the pic of the original condition, and of pics I have on hand, I have a body question for you:

On the side of the truck, at the rear and underneath the drip rail, it looks as though there is a vertical curve that runs down the back corner. Is this an applied molding, or was the original body slightly different. The pic of the refurbished truck doesn't appear to have this body curve on it. Just curious.

Russell

Now that Russell mentions it there appears, in fact, to be some sort of molding all the way down the back corner from top to bottom on the original picture.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

dave s

Russell and Alex, you are both right. Original body was nailed together there and the molding covered the joint where the panels were nailed to framework. And yes, we are going to bend the new aluminum stock and it will go in same place as original and tie in to rear panel below doors that already has in rolled into it.
If you look at bottom of pan, you can see where it is raised to match thickness of molding.


line shows where trim piece goes. Our body is all welded together, while original was nailed together.

dave s

bent metal wrote:

Awesome job!

How is the drip rail attached?





Can we see pictures of the belt line molding?

You can see rusty belt line molding in this picture.

RL Chilton

Very cool, Dave! The work is outstanding. That's a better way of solving the body seam, as it will help prevent future problems in that area.

dave s

I ran down garage and temporarly placed old molding in place. This is closer to what it will look like, but it will be body color.

RL Chilton

Thanks for the update. I like it . . . it helps frame in that upper panel, makes it look more complete.