Selected/Technical Articles

My introduction to woodies was in high school, in the 1960s. My best friend’s older brother had a ’51 Ford woodie.

From mountain top and south to North Island, and everywhere else, on May 18

This story begins in July of 1977 in Vermont. I was a 19-year-old on vacation with my girlfriend Cindy and her family.

Alex DiLena is a rather intuitive person who rarely plans his day, yet when he presses the button to start his 1947 Mercury woodie (that morning last autumn), his next three days are more or less set.

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Bleaching wood is accomplished by using one or both of two chemical processes designed specifically for wood.

I learned everything that follows in this updated ‘how-to’ dissertation from hands-on experience, trial and error, and experimentation. I have been working on woodies since the fall of 1961, a length of time that is hard for me to even imagine.