How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

I started in on making the new sides for the box this past week. I stopped in a local fabrication shop and they will be making the long top channels on the sides for me. The originals are 14ga and 80" long. Id love to do them myself but that is simply just to heavy a gage and too long a piece for me to do at home on my own.

However what I have begun is making the smaller vertical channels. I got the 16ga cut to near finished size and then bent them up in about 1.5hrs worth of work. I still have to cut the sides down to the proper depth and angle. I also made up new parts for going on either end of the wheel wells on the outside lower edge of the box.

The one thing I am not too sure how to do is where the bottom of the top bows meet these channels. The channel appears to either have been cut and bent to be parallel with the box sides. Or was it stamped?