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« Reply #40 on: February 23, 2004, 09:38:12 AM » |
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I heavily braced the car from with in this time around. I also added Chassis rails underneath to tie the front and rear rails together For this I used 50 x50 mm rhs. The dash at the time was a timber version I had a mate make... I did not like it so it still sits on the shelf...any one want it?
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« Reply #41 on: February 23, 2004, 09:42:49 AM » |
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The donor FE gave me its Rear tulip panel ( panel between boot and rear screen. ) This allowed to return this part of the car back to standard... The rear window you can see in the shot is a VW Type 3 Station Wagon tailgate ... with its bum cut off... I never did unscrew the catches and they are still there to this day burried under all the fabricated body work...
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« Reply #42 on: February 23, 2004, 09:49:06 AM » |
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I was starting to get the message through to myself to keep pushing the car outside to get some better vision of the flowing lines.. All this fabrication is add -lib.. I was just making it fit as I went.. Soon I worked out that if did not fit - dont force it... Secret to top looks is to let it work itself out and stand back and visualise the end effect.The conti kit was sat in place to aid in this end vision.( pardon the pun....)
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« Reply #43 on: February 23, 2004, 10:01:33 AM » |
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I sat the new rear screen opening in place and viewed from the side... Profile was still battling with its self....but I felt I was on the right track...Note the Canted b pillars have been discarded...
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« Reply #44 on: February 23, 2004, 10:04:53 AM » |
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To assist in the side profile I quickly knocked up these bits of masonite masked and painted to simulate glass.. Design was starting to come together...I re- worked the door frames and replaced them here as well.
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« Reply #45 on: February 23, 2004, 10:10:45 AM » |
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Now some wildness was starting to happen. I had also bought some side cuts of VW TYPE 3 Fast Back from the wreckers and this was to form the rear side windows... I pie cut the entire roof skin and removed some serious metal from the rear most of the roof This allowed me to escape the bulkiness of the FC rear roof. The rear 1/3 of the roof was cut away to allow the fitting of another bit of roof ( yes from the donor FE). I took this from the front of the FE roof and spun it 180 degrees and used it to fill the back of the roof where I had just cut away the old humpy bit.
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« Reply #46 on: February 23, 2004, 10:15:22 AM » |
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Here you can see the massive amount of modification taking place. The new parcel tray/tulip panel is place . The FE roof skin is ready to be added and the rear window is balancing there like an unfinished bridge.There are remnants of the old roof still lurking and these were soon to be removed...
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« Reply #47 on: February 23, 2004, 10:22:55 AM » |
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And by smoko time it was all back together again... (smoko time several weeks later). This is a vastly different look to the first awkward attemps... The patience needed for this is driven by the desire to get it right at what ever cost to sanity and time...The C pillars were formed from More bits of the FE donor roof . These were taken from the side and dropped into place... I was Quite pleased at this point in time.. the car was starting to look finished.. Problem was no one knew it was a Holden any more...
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« Reply #48 on: February 23, 2004, 10:27:11 AM » |
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White walls gone.... still I thought it need something more..... Roof was happy at last but it needed something to accentuate it...
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« Reply #49 on: February 23, 2004, 10:42:14 AM » |
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This is an Ek Wagon roof I rescued from a dam at the end of my road. Remarkably , the sterring box and column is from the same car.. It was above the water line and has proved to be a good thing.... This roof will give up some steel profiles to form some skirts... The farmer though I was joking when I told him I wanted the roof to make some skirts with... He understood when I took the finished car to him... Here you can see I have sanded back the paint,rust and lichen to reveal some shiny steel to cut my skirts from.
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« Reply #50 on: February 23, 2004, 10:46:03 AM » |
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Using a hammer and dolly I dressed a rolled edge around the perimeter. I first made a pattern from masking paper ..like any good dress maker would do... This was transferred to the roof and cut out with some air shears. The rust on the inside was removed first b4 fitting to the car too.
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« Reply #51 on: February 23, 2004, 10:53:29 AM » |
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I had got some VW Kombi side cuts to get the wheel arches from . I like the VW steel. (thats all they are good for with me...) These were to be added in to ontinue the sill line reveal and to assist in hiding the rear wheels... Real Kustoms have no back wheels...Hence the skirts... These are not spats .. spats are removable .. skirts are permanent and much larger...You can notice the curve downwards . this is why I used the wagon roof to get that curve to go under the car.. plus the roof has shape .. something thats needed other wise a flat panel would buckle and look wrong.
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« Reply #52 on: February 23, 2004, 10:56:29 AM » |
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I have the skirt and wheel arch ready for placement and Once I marked where it was to live I ground back the primer for something to weld it all to.
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« Reply #53 on: February 23, 2004, 11:12:01 AM » |
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All welded in... The front of the skirt was formed as an opening. the lip of the wheel arch continues the lip on the sill theme...
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« Reply #54 on: February 23, 2004, 11:17:22 AM » |
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With all the body work finished on the skirt and a coat of primer the finished article follows the theme of the car and mimicks the styleline of the hip and the angle of the tail fin. Time to break out the 56 Dodge Lancer hubcaps ( repro) I bought froma trip to the states...Flush buttons replace the door handles... tricky things to fit but worth it.
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« Reply #55 on: February 23, 2004, 11:22:52 AM » |
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The bonnet has been stripped back to bare steel to address the fact it kept going rusty due to some poor repairs in its previous life. I normally wont send the bonnet to the sand blasters due to a fear of them stuffing it up
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« Reply #56 on: February 23, 2004, 11:32:23 AM » |
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restored FE dash there truly was not much left from that donor car!. I dislike the plastic crap on FC dashes. I also use EK columns to get the steering wheel away from my eyebrows... They are 4" shorter than FC ones and they bolt straight in. The pearled steering wheel is FE with Fe Horn ring and is mounted upside down so we can read the guages. Not a problem when we had the horn button pearled as well. This steering wheel is now for sale as I have a restored one with an EK horn button on it now. Just by pure luck the for the EK horn button to fit an FC steering wheel, the wheel has to be upside down... just as well . minor detail but its the details that count.
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« Reply #57 on: February 23, 2004, 11:38:36 AM » |
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Spray polyester has been applied.. we are starting to get excited now as it has been five years to get to this stage.
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« Reply #58 on: February 23, 2004, 11:42:12 AM » |
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Well she wants it o the road so she makes sure she helps where she can. This is very important not to get this stage wrong. As we are filling back spray polyester we have to be vigilant to look for any irregularities.. Kim is quality control. The paint jobs key to sucess relies on the preparation.
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« Reply #59 on: February 23, 2004, 11:47:36 AM » |
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The panels and insides wait their turn at getting some colour...Thats the last time you will see the gas tank... Its still there but is hiding .Airbags have been fitted just prior to this stage to the rear only . Compressor and tank lives in boot down in below the deep recesses of the 1/4 panels. There has been much other work not documented ...
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