I have a friend Louis who I met as a fruit tree customer when I was selling citrus trees out of my back yard. He referred me to Jorge the car painter with 25 years of paint/body shop experience. Jorge works in a body shop and evenings and weekends he paints cars also. It was a gamble that payed off. I had a bid of $10,000 from a hot rod shop, the same one that put in the patch panels on the fenders. I delivered the woodie in black epoxy primer with minimal body work required. Jorge painted the Bambalino Blue for $2,500. I provided paint and primer. Used Restoration Shop single stage paint from TCP. Couldn't be happier.
The top driver's side hinge pin was badly worn on my 36 woodie and the door wouldn't shut properly. I got 51 Merc hardened hing pins and long enough to mount outside mirrors. They are 5/16 which is 0.3125. Standard pins for 36 are 0.27. The way oversized pins from Vintique are 0.336 and would have ruined the hinges with a too big hole.
I bought a 5/16 line reamer on ebay and drilled the holes out with the reamer, they fit perfectly, and the door shuts properly nice and tight now!
I bought a 5/16 line reamer on ebay and drilled the holes out with the reamer, they fit perfectly, and the door shuts properly nice and tight now!
51 Merc oversize pin on top
36 Ford standard pin on bottom
36 Ford standard pin on bottom
It is not what it appears though. I bought an empty radio box and put a modern 12v am/fm inside it. The vendor hooked the new radio up to the old tuner in the dash(pots installed at radio head and wires to radio instead of cables).
I also took the chance to hide my turn signal box. I bought the one that is self cancelling(by time except when the brake is on) and hid it in the empty radio box. I knocked out the original speaker plug to get the wires into it. It does require a few more wires though... I couldn't locate a 36 wiring harness that included turn signals so I used a Model A harness instead. Macs sells one that is designed for turn signals.
My woodie never had an original Ford radio in it as it didn't have any holes in the dash for a radio, but had the 4 dimples that mark where to drill. It must have had some kind of radio as there were holes drilled in the firewall in front of the driver's door for an antenna. The first restorer just bondo-ed over the two holes. One of the radios I bought came with a spare tire antenna wire attached to the spare tire holder so that is what I'm using as an antenna.
I also took the chance to hide my turn signal box. I bought the one that is self cancelling(by time except when the brake is on) and hid it in the empty radio box. I knocked out the original speaker plug to get the wires into it. It does require a few more wires though... I couldn't locate a 36 wiring harness that included turn signals so I used a Model A harness instead. Macs sells one that is designed for turn signals.
My woodie never had an original Ford radio in it as it didn't have any holes in the dash for a radio, but had the 4 dimples that mark where to drill. It must have had some kind of radio as there were holes drilled in the firewall in front of the driver's door for an antenna. The first restorer just bondo-ed over the two holes. One of the radios I bought came with a spare tire antenna wire attached to the spare tire holder so that is what I'm using as an antenna.
I had a hot rod shop re-work the fenders on my 36 Woodie and install patch panels. As part of the job they were to add 4 inches to the gas tank filler neck. The filler neck on the woodie stood just above the level of the fender and leaked gas when going around corners.
The filler neck was stuck in the tank. I instructed them to fill the gas tank up with water and weld an extension on the filler neck. Boom, they wrecked the gas tank anyway. They returned it with a hot rod style tank with the filler neck attacked with a rubber hose. I ordered a new tank from Bob Drake with the original style screw in filler neck and a new neck. I still had the old neck so I cut off about 4 inches and added it to the new neck it would fit:
The filler neck was stuck in the tank. I instructed them to fill the gas tank up with water and weld an extension on the filler neck. Boom, they wrecked the gas tank anyway. They returned it with a hot rod style tank with the filler neck attacked with a rubber hose. I ordered a new tank from Bob Drake with the original style screw in filler neck and a new neck. I still had the old neck so I cut off about 4 inches and added it to the new neck it would fit:
I got to install some stainless steel wood screws and the correct finish washers from the "Woodieologist" in the 36 woodie today. Sure looks a lot nicer than the rusty ones I took out!
The lower one is from a 36 Ford, don't know the model. My 36 woodie came with the top one. Several 36 woodies I have seen including the one in the "v8 Affair" have the more upright one.
The lower one is from a 36 Ford, don't know the model. My 36 woodie came with the top one. Several 36 woodies I have seen including the one in the "v8 Affair" have the more upright one.
Here are some of the stainless steel screws for the woodie. I'm replacing all the wood screws with stainless. Wow, there are a lot of screws. I also got some nickel finish washers. Most of the visible screws have a finish washer.