Ace-Garageguy

Here you go. Bed underside details start at about 3 minutes in. Heavy longitudinal wooden planks laid over wooden transverse supports, assembly through-bolted to longitudinal wooden spacers clamped on top of the steel frame rails. I'd guess the side members of the perimeter bed frame itself are steel (to better support the two bolts on every hinge), but the rest of the bed members appear to be wood.

This later model Bedford shows a bed where the heavy longitudinal planks are apparently laid over transverse steel cross-supports (welded to a perimeter steel floor frame), in turn supported by wooden longitudinal spacers laid over the top of the frame rails. This was a common way to do it back then, but I don't know if your prototype was built that way.

Commodity traders once inspired no end of jokes involving pork bellies.

Depending on whether you have any taste or design sense...or not.

Kit-cars, the full-scale ones, can be pretty decent drivers and on very rare occasions can be built up to make vehicles that perform significantly better than the originals.

Ran out of argon-CO2 mix this AM. There's another not-my-MIG in the shop but I don't want to tie it up or run back and forth getting it for intermittent work, so I came home to check the two bottles here, and if they're flatlined, I'll have to get the bottle from my other MIG at the other shop. Just don't want to have to pay for a full fill right now. So...I think I'll eat my sammidge sitting down for a change.

Bbbbbbbbuttt...muh TECHNOLOGY is so mo BETTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ie: you must be a luddite geezer doing it wrong)

They are both 'challenging' kits, and benefit enormously from upgrades as partially addressed above. IMC kits in general are not easy to get really nice results from, being complex and 'fiddly', but in the hands of a skilled and patient builder, they can produce outstanding models.

Mostly da demographic that says "da" I'd guess.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones because while we can defend against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are powerless; objective truth and reasoning fall on deaf ears. "Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears. Facts that contradict a stupid person’s prejudgment simply need not be believed and when they are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person is self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us from the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and is abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil - incapable of seeing that it is evil."

Yeah, but it's two YOUNG guys who posted the videos complaining about the hijacking of car events by young morons...not geezers complaining. Big difference.

Horrible gaudy thing, but I'm glad it survived. The recent paint doesn't look as 'pearl' in photos as some earlier photos of the car, though the effort to reproduce the appearance of the illuminated tires seems to have worked well. In its heyday, below. Pre-restoration, below. Now, light-up tires and all, below.

"Picket and it'll bleed" is what Mrs. Loopner's shouting sounded like, but I'm pretty sure she meant "pick it".