I'd tell you how good your cars looking Dave but I'm sure you've heard that enough. Yeah Right! Lookin good my man! No answer yet on that headlight buckets. I'll keep trying the contacts though. C-Ya in Santa Maria
Well I got a week to get this done I always throw myself under the bus. The car wont actually be really completed for a while but I wanted to get it farhter along before Paso Maria. I dropped the mustache off at the chrome shop yesterday (hope I get that back in time) I only have weekends and after work to go on this thing and this is where its at! Later Dave I dig this photo shop pic! It should be close to this but the grill bar will be fatter to fill the space.
Well here's some update pics for you guys I could explain what I did bit its kinda obvious. here's a breif explanation. I used a pexto slip roll for some of the pieces and a round sheet metal brake at Blue collar customs for the smaller radius around the fender. The pieces were curved with a shrinker stretcher and hand formed around some T dollies. I tried to use as little lead as possible and metal finish things like the olds fenders as smooth as possible its kinda even hard to see the welds in the pics. Ltr Dave The sail panels are modified stock ones that had a deep lap joint with lead factory The front turned out like so Big effort to get it to Santa Maria
Wow ! front end look fucking great ! 56 olds rings looked right at home, and i love the way you integrate the mustache to make it fit like it grow there !
Oh come on this car sucks! I shoulda built a merc! I am just kiddin I like mercs Thanks for all the compliments Dave Hitch
what did you use for those curves? i was thinking about something similar for my grill but using exhaust tubing instead of all those complicated bends on sheet metal
I bent them around a tube-Blue collar customs had a sheetmetal brake that folds it around a 1 1/2 tube. You could use annything even just hammer it around a tube. I then used a shrinker/stretcher to curve them. When you shrink or stretch one side you have to do the opposite on the other side or it curves. You would have to do the same with exhaust tubing slit down and that would be harder to bend as I think its like 14 guage? Hope that helps Dave
Ya know I forgot to mention that the pieces decrease in radius as it comes down and goes around the fender to do that after I got em close in the shrinker/stretcher I formed them tighter around some "T" dollies I made one was just a big ball bearing out of a scissor lift, welded to plate clamped in the vise worked killer where the two pieces came together. Just thought I would add some info for Ya 6Berry. Later Dave
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