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Old 10-27-2013, 03:12 PM
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I hope you are going to add a lot of steel reinforcement along with the wood. I thought about saving the wood in mine but after talking with a friend who did a 31 Chevy I decided I didn't want to have his nitemare with wood he bit a similar car to mine with a healthy v8 replaced all the wood with new wood and no extra steel.hr drove it a lot for a couple years the started to notice that all the body panels were getting loose his final wood problem came after a day at the strip when the wood across the top of the door opening cracked and the top sagged causing the doors not to close anymore. I think the wood is fine in a stock resto but once you add in modern drivetrain and suspension it causes a lot of problems as the original car only had 60 hp. I priced the wood kit and was able to go all steel with labor for about 1/4 the cost of just the wood the only wood I left was in the doors and around the trunk and they both had some steel structure added

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