Re: Varnishing Woodie
True, the interior of the door panels were not varnished by Ford. We try to go above and beyond when we restore our cars and make them better. I think that the reason we see many unrestored cars that have the bottoms of the panel's de-laminating is because of water getting into the space between the structural wood and the panels. If you have the book Famous Ford Woodies it tells of the varnishing techniques used in Iron Mountain. They first were given a spray coat of varnish and sent to a drying oven. The body was sanded and varnished twice more. One interesting fact is that all the interior hardware that wasn't masked was sprayed over including screws and blind nuts.
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