Nice woody, and love the Continental Mark VII. Was one of the cars I very much wanted when growing up.

Very nice job. This is a beautiful vehicle.

This was the most expensive Ford you could buy in 1941 (priced at $1015) and I cannot imagine many of the 9,485 built survive today as woodies deteriorated without careful maintenance so this example, in essentially original condition, must be unique. Wonderful! Of course, even the wood came from Ford's own Iron Mountain forests in Michigan. It is interesting that Henry Ford's idea of vertical integration, exemplified by the Rouge plant, is no longer the industrial model as carmakers aim at acting as engineers, designers and assemblers with a huge infrastructure beneath of suppliers. With more and more of a car's value in electronics, this trend towards specialist suppliers is bound to increase.

Darn ! At 3minutes l was going to say this car could have Wayne Corinni connections . Why ? Well Wayne's father restored cars and his signature was the silver hand painted rub strip on the tyres. I learnt of this on one of Wayne's shows. Coincidently when my father had his 3.4 Jaguar Mk 2 in 1965 it wore Dunlop RS 5 's , the high performance tyre of the day. I enhanced the tyres in the very same way , l was 13 at the time and l think l was inspired by the Formula 1 cars . Their tyres were adorned in the same way. I wonder if Wayne's father was inspired for the same reason. Thankyou Donald .

Lose the background music