wagon progress

[MP&C]

I can't be the only one wondering after following this thread for over 7 years. What the timeline for your beautiful work of art 55 Nomad to be rolling down the road for all to see?

The work for my day job involves travel which directly impacts shop time. When I'm on travel, no shop time. In 2020 when the rest of the world seemed shut down, we travelled about 1/3 of the year, last year slightly more. The covid scamdemic seemed to shut everything down such that simple window clips were 3-4 months to get them in, only to find out that they wouldn't work with the tack strips used for the headliner, hence we ended up making our own. The bumpers are still at the chrome platers, since the brainiacs in DC want to pay people more to sit at home than working, so his work force went from about 8 down to 2 in short order. So welcome to my world, where it seems everything that can go wrong, has. So I've given up on timelines, it gets done when it gets done. And yes, as others pointed out, it is a 210 wagon.

[MP&C]

Here's a picture of the 39 we're doing the harness in, should be done this week..

[BamaNomad]

Wow... I LOVE 39 coupes! and that one reminds me of the first one I ever saw that I fell for (back to 1966).. if yours had gray American spokes on it, it would be a perfect replica..

They are as CLASSIC as the '55-57 Chevy sedan...

[MP&C]

A recent find of some metalshaping tools, finally found a stake plate and stake anvils... Along with some dolly's I didn't have..













The wiring harness installed, here's our first test start of the 39....













Lighting tests:






















With that, the 39 has left the building... Here's the test drive taking it home. Also found out the easy way of opening the ash tray...

[MP&C]

We've all seen the rusted out floor pans in old cars with a sign screwed or pop riveted in place to keep your feet from falling through. As a first for me, now I've repaired one of those signs. We needed to make some dies for the Lennox to produce the "picture frame" border...


































The owner plans on using panel adhesive to attach, in order to save as much of the original paint as possible. We made some splice plates for the back side to use with the panel adhesive. He has an artist lined up to re-create the bottom portion.

[MP&C]

The hinge covers for the wagon is one of the many loose ends we have left to address, quite a bit of rust...





A quick test fit before we go off fabricating anything shows these factory original parts are no better than many of the reproduction parts you get today.. I had planned on fabrication work, didn't know we needed a redesign.











We ordered a piece of round stock to match the radius to use on the Magnetic brake, that should arrive Tuesday.

Next, we need to fold a hem for our stainless edge trim we plan on using for the ribbed stainless dash insert. The magnetic brake leaves a bit to be desired in having balls enough to hem a short return flange, so we packed up our sheet metal strips we had cut to size and went to another local metalshaper's shop to make use of his apron brake.








A piece of .030 aluminum acted as a spacer to maintain our hem gap. The brake worked well but the parts needed a bit more flatness to provide nice crisp details. Since he also had a powered Mittler Bros. bead roller, we used some flat dies and ran through all the bent pieces.


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hrFMqEeRhAw


test fit of the ribbed stainless....








And for a teaser of how it will look after polishing....


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GfqiYbIZYvo

[chevynut]

The hinge covers for the wagon is one of the many loose ends we have left to address, quite a bit of rust...

I bought a pair of reproductions and with minor tweaking I think they fit very nicely. Maybe the wagons and Nomads have different designs, and you have Nomad ones?

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[chevynut]

Yes, the Nomad and wagon take two different hinge covers...

https://www.muttonhollowchevys.com/1...rs_p_3306.html

https://www.muttonhollowchevys.com/1...ge-covers.html

[MP&C]

Nice quality parts in that Mutton Hollow link.

[chevynut]

Nice quality parts in that Mutton Hollow link.

Oh wow. I noticed the "R" and "L" stamps and thought they were totally unnecessary. If a guy can't see which goes where he shouldn't be building a car. Mine were really nice when I bought them but I can't remember where they came from. Madmooks has some nice stainless ones, but they're only for Nomads. Anyhow, my point in posting was to show they're different. If yours fit that badly, they could be for a Nomad. It might be easier to "massage" the ones from MH than to build from scratch.

Here's a pair of original ones but they look a little crusty.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/14483915218...Bk9SR5CFsom4YQ