WANTED: BOAT-TAIL SKIFF COACH PLANS&PHOTOS!

SILVERGHOST - That's a huge undertaking what you want to do and I tip my hat to you a dozen times! They are probably the most impressive bodies you could put on a car , bar none. With labor costs the way they are your going to be spending a Kings ransom , but being such an important undertaking you could take many pictures and write a book on it. I tell you I'd buy a copy !!!

.................. Steve

P.S. - Would you sign it for me ?

..............Steve

Skiffs were featured at Pebble Beach last year and I think there is a pretty good article in the program about them. You might call and get one. I would find a good wood worker who has done either boats or car structural wood work or both and then do some hard looking at these to find the one you want to copy. Some are more elegant than others. Scott Isquick in OH has a nice Mercedes and I think it had to be rebuilt from the ground up after a fire, (if not in a fire, it is still gorgeous now) so you might talk to him about what it takes to have it done. I will have to look and see if I have some photos from Pebble of skiffs. Dave Mitchell packard12s@hotmail.com

Here's a thread with the real story of Isquick's Mercedes skiff (which, although beautiful, is a fake):

How much car is needed to call it a "restoration?"

Brad,

I'm interested in tackling your coachwork.

Could you please send a few pictures of what you want.

rodbuilderandco@frsb.net

I'm currently fabricating an aluminum skin for the right side tail section of a Stutz boat-tail speedster.

Randy Ferguson

Ferguson Coachbuilding