Let me introduce you to John's 31 Ford Deluxe Delivery. This is a rare car for sure. 3000 or so were built. All were built by coach builders. This car had a wooden skeleton with tin skin on the outside. My job now is the replace all that wood with a one off steel structure.
I already replaced the lower sub-rails with steel 2 door sedan rails so I have a solid base to work my way up from. I decided to frame in the front doors first. So here goes. This photo shows the rear door opening before I got started.
Lots of measuring and cutting paper templates went into this final steel pattern.
Here is my pattern trimmed to final size and I put a step in the back side to help stiffen the panel a bit.
this is the step in the back. I will do a similar step in the front so the lip on the skin fits flush into the new lower door post.
Here is the panel folded into the shape I want for the door post.
I needed to put a dog leg in the post to follow the edge so The wind-lace seal will seal the door when we are finished. I took a pie cut so I could fold the post. I will weld the cut once I an happy with the posts.
Here is the first of 2 posts. Drivers first, then move to the passenger side.
Notice the post follows the shape of the door. That is needed for the type of seal used in early Fords
Passenger side lower post is complete as well. Tomorrow I should get the upper posts and start above the doors.
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