356 B T6 Restoration
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
so the next project to do in this saga, the front hood. so the start...
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
So your making an entire hood from scratch? Wow, really incredible work!
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
thank you neil for sharing your work. I think everyone is astounded by your ease and confidence at forming your steel. I see that the transformation is not miraculous, it is insistence and gentle determination. very powerful.
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Wonderful! That isn't Galvalume is it? Enjoy the work.
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Fond memories of 14 others (including a '63 Normal and a 61 S90)
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
m penta, thank you
ryan, thank you
chuck, it's not galv, it is 1mm bright form cold rolled
thank you for the kind words guys
ryan, thank you
chuck, it's not galv, it is 1mm bright form cold rolled
thank you for the kind words guys
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
well it's been a while since i updated this, i'm sure a few maybe wondering if it's finished or even still on going lol.
well it's still on going,
well it's still on going,
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
i ended up making a wire buck directly on the car, and promptly cut off the outer r/h outer piece i had just made for the tail panel,
turned the car around to get the other side to this point, almost looks like a car again lol
turned the car around to get the other side to this point, almost looks like a car again lol
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
so carrying on, i have to say i have made 4 1/4 panels for the r/h side, so the l/h side i had a go at a different way of making the 1/4 panel...
i had a go at making it in 1 piece instead of 2, which was actually easier believe it or not
i had a go at making it in 1 piece instead of 2, which was actually easier believe it or not
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
carrying on with the conversion from bt6 to pre-a, not the easiest feat...
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Neil thank you for the update. hard to believe what you are doing is possible. but to see it, ha, still hard to believe, a real treat.
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
thank you ryan
more done, i had bought some wheel well closing panels but they were.... well not very good put it that way so i took a rough template, added material all around and made a new one. i shall make another template of this one to get a better duplicate.
i ended up going with just two beads in this panel, not just cause it looks more like a pre-a but it was easy to do these two in my machine, the other two were not possible unless i did them by hand
thanks for watching
more done, i had bought some wheel well closing panels but they were.... well not very good put it that way so i took a rough template, added material all around and made a new one. i shall make another template of this one to get a better duplicate.
i ended up going with just two beads in this panel, not just cause it looks more like a pre-a but it was easy to do these two in my machine, the other two were not possible unless i did them by hand
thanks for watching
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
You should have told me that's what you wanted to do, I could have thrown some Pre-A panels in the car, I sold this one, a T5, a few years ago with all the panels, the guy did a great job with it.neil blaber wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2019 7:54 am carrying on with the conversion from bt6 to pre-a, not the easiest feat...
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
i can remember that one adam, maybe for the next one
it was a big thing for me at the time i contacted you adam, it was a realization of a life long dream to own a 356, a friend of mine had very recently died so my thoughts were not the clearest lol. this one i think was good to do the conversion, just due to the state it was in, not having anything with it really so it's not a matching numbers car, it should drive ok being a bt6 (suspension wise). i do plan on building another one after this, i know i contacted you about this very thing probably a couple of years ago now lol.
thanks for watching
it was a big thing for me at the time i contacted you adam, it was a realization of a life long dream to own a 356, a friend of mine had very recently died so my thoughts were not the clearest lol. this one i think was good to do the conversion, just due to the state it was in, not having anything with it really so it's not a matching numbers car, it should drive ok being a bt6 (suspension wise). i do plan on building another one after this, i know i contacted you about this very thing probably a couple of years ago now lol.
thanks for watching
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
just a quick update of the front of this shell, just need to finish the return at the bottom edge of this panel.
thanks for watching
thanks for watching
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