Made in 1941 this one of a kind car fell into the hands of a young man, Donald Lansing, in the 1960's for a very small sum. A price he couldn't resist.

Eventually, him and his friends started working on this classic wooden car. After a couple years their fun ended and Don went into the air force. So the car headed to what almost became its final resting place.

About 20 years later Don finally realized that he now had a rare car that would be more valuable if it were in better condition. Seeing that his oldest son was graduating high school in a few years and since he knew how much his son loved the car he decided to clean up the car and give it to his oldest son, so he sent the car in for a makeover. So after some moaning and graoning the car finally jumped on the tow truck and started its road to recovery.

To the right, is a picture of the Woodie, which finally arrived at the wood shop to get a full body massage. Each piece of wood is stripped from the car down to its bare frame and then hand sanded. They then take each piece of wood and varnish it seperately and finally reassemble the car and coating it with about a dozen more coats of varnish.

While the wood is stripped from the car and getting sanded and varnished, the car is sent to the paint shop and the frame of the car is painted maroon which we found out was the original color of the car.

The picture on the right shows evidence of the firwall being maroon before the painting process began. Interesting enough before finding this out we already had decided to paint it maroon. Kind of cool to know, huh. FYI

Finally after weeks of precision painting the frame has been painted and is ready to be sent back to get its wood put back on.