Holey COWL!

While working to locate door latches, I sent an email off to Mr. Dick Spadaro

Dick confirmed that latches were of the least of my worries.. As 38 - 40 ford woodie rear fenders are specific to woodie wagons.

Worse yet, I had the wrong COWL.. (as Woodie cowls are unique to wagons as well)

Fortunately, Early in November my friends Bryan (Tokyo) ,Kevin (MAZ) and I had planned to head to a "yard" we had heard about..

It was there that I stumbled on the remains of a 1939 ford DELUXE Woodie cowl.



Although it was in terrible condition. I have been able (so far) to graft it onto my other cowl and it appears it will work out well..





In addition I had the good fortune to spot this seat frame, which is also for a 38 - 40 Ford Woodie:

OH NO! these things are expensive

Soon after purchasing the wood I learned just how expensive this project was about to become..

Door latches for 38 - 40 ford Woodie are specific to Woodie Wagon.. and I only had ONE (thanks to Junior!)

worse yet.. one Woodie door latch had just sold for almost 600.00 on ebaymotors!

Through some careful sniping, I managed to get the 3 other latches, thank goodness for auctionzip!