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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:09 am
by neil blaber
so the next project to do in this saga, the front hood. so the start...
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:13 am
by neil blaber
thanks for watching the madness
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:45 pm
by M Penta
So your making an entire hood from scratch? Wow, really incredible work!
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:36 pm
by ryan base
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.
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 4:30 pm
by Charles H Jacobus
Wonderful! That isn't Galvalume is it? Enjoy the work.
Chuck
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:21 am
by neil blaber
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
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 7:30 am
by neil blaber
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 7:38 am
by neil blaber
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 7:46 am
by neil blaber
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
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 7:54 am
by neil blaber
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 11:17 am
by ryan base
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.
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:58 am
by neil blaber
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 6:51 pm
by Adam Wright
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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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.
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:34 am
by neil blaber
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
Re: 356 B T6 Restoration
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:10 am
by neil blaber
just a quick update of the front of this shell, just need to finish the return at the bottom edge of this panel.
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thanks for watching