Welcome to Bob's Paddy Wagon.

What started as a chassis on a freight truck in February 2008 became a 1917-style C-cab paddy wagon, built Ford front to back over eight years of ordering, fabricating, welding, painting and figuring it out as we went.

This site is the record of that build. Every photograph, every dated entry, kept the way Bob wrote it. Some of it is nuts and bolts on a shop floor. Some of it is his dad measuring insulation, or his wife Chuan cutting a cardboard pattern for the cab. All of it was the journey.