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Posted By Discussion Topic: Gotta try the picture test     parrish 12-06-2009 @ 11:22 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 349 Joined: Oct 2009 gotta agree with Alan...I'm a builder and after only a few days of new flooring sun exposure, you can see the UV change. So, on your Ford you will have a heck of a time matching the old wood patina. 42wagon 12-03-2009 @ 5:26 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 584 Joined: Oct 2009 Okay, I see that several of you would like to know more about my wagon. The story starts in 1968 at least as far as I'm concerned. At the time I was building a house working on the project weekends. I needed a vehicle in which I could pack up the tools, nails, buckets of paint, and whatever else during the week to spread out on the weekends. Someone mentioned an old station wagon in a nearby town. Turned out the guy who owned it had purchased it from someone else but had just towed it home and never started it. It was parked in his garage and his wife had just bought a new Buick. Her car was not going to sit out while the non-running wagon sat in the garage. So for $300 I got the car. All it needed to get it running was a new battery. What it needed to make it presentable was a quick coat of varnish. It was a complete car though - all three seats, matching engine and frame numbers, no modifications. Well I drove it for several years, using it as you would any old vehicle. So around 1970 the house was finished and it went to sleep in the garage. I had other things to do like raising kids and playing with Model As.And that is where it sat until a couple of years ago when my wife said "lets restore it". Now I've been involved with Model As and a restored 31 roadster also occupies the garage, so I thought I knew what I was getting into, except taking apart and putting back together a wood car adds a whole new dimension to the project. Now all I had done back in 68 was a quick varnish job. The car was complete and unmodified. It has 80,000 miles on the odometer. At some point before I got it, it had been in an accident and had a front fender replaced. That fender by the way has big bolt holes in it where either a siren or big light was attached probably during the war.The engine is a replacement 59AB although it has the crab distributor. The good news is the engine runs fine.There were rotted pieces of wood in the rear quarter panels. The seat upholstery was dry rotted and was going to need to be replaced.It was going to need repainting and some of the chrome replated. So that is the story. Right now it is going back together and should be on the road again this summer. 1934 Ford 12-03-2009 @ 3:46 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 573 Joined: Oct 2009 The question begs for more details on the 30 years in the barn story. It was already 38 years old 40 years ago, so what was its status then? Original unrestored? Sounds like it could be a good story. I await the rest of the story. bigvince 11-20-2009 @ 1:37 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 60 Joined: Oct 2009 Nice looking 42. I would simply wash this car and let it alone. Only original once 35Phaeton 10-06-2009 @ 4:41 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 48 Joined: Oct 2009 Picture test......... Barn fresh 1993....still looks the same....need to set new prioritys...... ford38v8 10-04-2009 @ 1:53 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 2759 Joined: Oct 2009 42, You might want to consider preserving it rather than to restore it. See my post below under the 34 Victoria original thread. A respectable old girl like yours commands it's own following. Alan trjford8 10-04-2009 @ 7:55 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 4214 Joined: Oct 2009 Looks good in the photo. Not too many 42 wagons around. Great Find! This message was edited by trjford8 on 10-4-09 @ 7:56 AM 42wagon 10-04-2009 @ 5:42 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 584 Joined: Oct 2009 Here's my barn fresh wagon out after 30 years and a bath. Soon to have the bad wood in the quarter panels and lots of other stuff restored.

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