I was recently reminded of a car that was at last year's Hot Rodaramma, the body appeared to be entirely hand fabricated. pieced together from wheeled and beaded sections. does anyone here have more pictures or info on this car? especialy build pictures? I thought it was very inspiring, it had a lot of little details that were very trick. or how about pix of other well fabricated bodies?
That's a well built T which has good proportions. IMHO, working with fresh steel is easier than restoring rusted,dented metal. I am in the process of buiding a helve hammer and finishing my planishing hammer. I have a bead roller, E wheel, shrinker stretcher, sand bag. After that I have a sedan that I got from another hamber that arrived via Greyhound in 4 boxes! Plan is to build a 32 tub (4 dr.) out of some of parts and use the rest to make a 5 window coupe. Sorry no pics yet, once I get my camera sorted out I would like to do several tech reports on the construction of floor and subrails, fabing doors,fabing quarter panels for the 5 window.etc. Some guys from Pa. build a tub from scratch that looked good, somebody also posted a 29 style modified body he made. Maybe they will chim in. Great topic!
nice post. Fantastic car. Wish I had some more photos of it. I sure enjoy the craftsmanship. ****, call me jealous of the talent.
probably not something to say to loud but the alumitub on that show the discovery channel broadcasts was hand made
I can't remember his name but a true gentleman I met him a few years ago at a GG's event ( the best car there) in Del Mar CA. The car is a work of art! Everything was handmade. He drives the car everywhere and he's shown me picture to prove it. it was a roadster for a few years before he built the removable top. I have very detailed pics of it i'll try and dig them up. -stick
Great stuff! This is truly an artform mastered by few, or even attempted by few anymore. To think that at one time a rolling ch***is was all that many manufactures concerned themselves with and the bodies were styled and built by independent shops. I'm reminded of an old b/w photograph I have in a book somewhere taken when the Maserati brothers were building their own cars. The picture is of a smoothed off tree stump behind the shop on which they pounded into shape the beautiful bodies that graced the ch***is of their pre-war cars. Un-real.
Sure wish I built it before making a fairing for Bobby's bellytanker! It will have to wait a coupla more weeks till I pound out and wheel the rest of the fairing for him. Plan to finish my lathe stand, planisher and helve on my vacation begining in July. At that point I want to do an album on metalshapers. I should have something to show at that point. I can't find the pics of Grimloks wheelwell fillers.
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