We Hit the Floor!

I wanted to start with a famous young person song. But because most of you wont understand it...we will skip it. Dad and I started on the floor. For the station wagon the floor is pieced together similar to how a hardwood floor would be.

Many pieces and components are involved. The most elaborate piece of this jigsaw puzzle is the piece that runs on the outside of the floor that encompasses both doors and up under the cowl. Because this piece is quite large we had some trouble trying to figure out how to cut it out without wasting large amounts of wood. This created one bag of sawdust. For all you technical people out there the width was over 7 inches and the length is more than 50. It has many elaborate angles and cutouts. So we figured a pattern would be in order. See attached picture:

I know the picture is not wonderful but we used this to draw onto the wood and then my poor Father spent 3 nights routing, cutting, and sanding to make it look like it was supposed to. I was just used for heavy lifting. The board was almost 12 feet long and weighed close to 30 to 50 pounds.Great job Dad!

I know the suspense is killing you so we will post a few finished product pictures. Well almost finished.

This picture is of the entire piece. The way that it is laying is the driver's side of the car.

This is a close up of the part that goes up under the cowl.

As mentioned above it is almost finished. The reason being is this bottom portion will be built up another 3/4 of an inch. Because you can't find wood that thick unless you cut it yourself. Henry Ford might of been into something back then having his own forest. If anyone know how to get me one I might consider doing more of these.