Thanks.

Yes, I'm just smearing glue along the edge, since the facing was chipping and peeling a bit along the edge. It'll still be knockdown. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be going anywhere once it was together.

Whew! I thought you were trading that new car in on a truck.:D

update, my friend won the auction and is scooting around town in his very own hearse (with a flame paint job no less).

We're talking about the casket now.

Brian

my dad used to be a bassist in a band when i was little. When he was youger, a friend from the band had a Packard Hearse. They played proms, and had a casket sized orange ( the fruit) crate that they'd pull out of the back. A member of the band would rise from the coffin, and they'd unload the rest of the gear.

We traded a '77 Cadillac hearse a few years ago. It was beat pretty badly, but I was amazed at how substantial the rear suspension was. It was like a delivery truck to drive. It took the guy a good hour to uninstall his array of kicker boxes and preamps. It had big aluminum rims and BF Goodrich whiteletter radials, too. I thought it was pretty cool. I think he got $500 for it because I remember thinking that the wheels and tires were worth more than the car.

This one is an 81 Cadillac hearse. I'm trying to get him to send a pic of it that I will post if he is able.

I *gotta* see the flaming paint job on a hearse.

here's a similar hearse with no flames
 

I hope he has his camera and didn't leave it with his wife, in VA as I think he did. SHE has the baby you see and you know how women love taking pictures of their offspring.

A quick plug for the oil I use, if anyone was curious.

Today we started cutting the shelves to size. Due to imperfections in the construction (alas), I am marking the approximate location each shelf is cut to fit, along with the direction it is supposed to face.

All but one of the shelves are cut and oiled. Today I oiled the plywood. In preparation, we glued some stiffening slats on the plywood.

Here is one of the plywood sections oiled, and the other plain.

I also oiled the pins for the top.

Almost there. I'm going to put some short pegs on the underside of the shelves, to keep them from sliding forward, then wax everything, and it's done!

A shelf just resting on pins can slide out, so I drilled a few holes, and added these pegs with a dab of glue, to lock the shelves in place.

Then it was time to wax everything.

Smear the wax on with one rag, rub it down with a second, then buff it with a third.

Unfortunately, two of my glue blocks did not hold. Before waxing the bottom, I had to reglue, and add screws to all four blocks.