Stutz restoration

impressive.

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Its hard to believe it is the same car.

Nice job.

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Another beauty Ken great job

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I rarely have time to look at another mans work but I gotta say

“Sweet”......”very Nice Work”.....Impeccable”

another “Blue Ribbon”!

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Very impressive restoration. I only did one restoration of a Model T fire engine once. It is in my projects if you care to look. It was alot of fun but nothing as nice as the stuff you do. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

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Very nice.

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Very Nice! I wonder if it would be acceptable to build, register and drive a wooden car today.
MIKE

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Great work, love it..
Mike, they’re still building the Morgan in England, lots of wood in those
sports cars.

-- Glen, Vernon B.C. Canada

NY has a very liberal policy on building your own car. It has to have the required lights, seatbelts and can stop in a safe distance; everything else including materials is fairly open.

-- --Rev. Russ in NY-- A posse ad esse

Yes Glen I know about the Morgan, a ten year waiting list last time I researched it. My question really is could “we” as wood workers build our own legal to drive wooden car?
MIKE

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Back in the early part of the last century a former neighbor of mine, and my mentor, told the story to me that in his father’s blacksmith’s shop they used to build beer trucks out of oak and ash. You know, the old “C” cabs with chain drive. I would love to do something like that with a more modern running gear. My mentor’s father was the last blacksmith in Niagara Falls a man of many skills passed down to his son and some from his son to me.
MIKE

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Mike I think you probably could do it, but I’d REALY want to have a deep conversation with the
motor vehicle branch types before going anywhere with it.
In B.C. they can be quite forgiving on the “homebuilt” type, then turn arround and fail a restoration,
and yet alow a quasi street legal race car to be liscenced.
I’m aware of a certain Chev Vega with 496 inch NOS motor that was liscenced by simply taking in the orriginal registration..no inspection required..But having said that, when last seen the only “violation” was the winshield wipers hadn’t been reinstalled after painting.

-- Glen, Vernon B.C. Canada

When mtenterprises mentions building a wooden car I’m a bit confused by just what you mean. The Morgans and essentially any pre-1930 car has wooden framing for the bodywork, but wood was abandoned for the actual main frame that holds the drive train very early on, say 1920 or before. This hybrid approach means that you have a wood frame and a steel chassis. However there were many wooden bodied cars. The “woodies” of the 30’s and 40’s mainly were favored as estate wagons and sedans and later by surfers. They were framed in heavy timber, usually ash but maple was used as well as other woods, then panels were fit into the spaces. My favorite were the skiff-bodied cars from Europe made mostly in the 20’s and fitted by famous boat and airplane constructors such as Labourdette and Nieuport. Perhaps the most famous is the H6C Hispano-Suiza bodied in copper riveted “Tulipwood”.

As far as modern cars go, several have tried older classic designs, but here’s a great modern car done entirely in wood, including the wheels! The body is made by weaving veneers, sort of like the pressed salad bowls you’ve seen.

Now those are a bit beyond my skills but very cool.
MIKE

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Beyond me too, but inspirational!