That car is a new one on me! I'm g;lad it will be worked on by pros.

Yah, the Fisher bodies from that era used a lot of wood. There was an old car graveyard that I examined several years ago. There was an early '30s Chevy coupe with all the sheetmetal lying on the ground around the car. Rotten wood.

Car manufacturers didn't have the technology to make a big stamping like a roof When they did try it the metal would stretch at different rates creating "stretcher strains" or Lueder's bands". Instead, the roof was made up of smaller stampings around the edge, with usually wood covered by chicken wire and finally some sort of fabric covering the hole in the middle. It wasn't until 1936 that the first affordable all steel roof was produced.

The cloth tops were a disaster for old car nuts like me. When the cars were abandoned the roof would inevitably fail and rain and snow would destroy the interior and in the case of the wooden structure bodies, the wood as well.

R