356 B T6 Restoration

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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#166 Post by neil blaber »

so the next project to do in this saga, the front hood. so the start...
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#167 Post by neil blaber »

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thanks for watching the madness :)
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#168 Post by M Penta »

So your making an entire hood from scratch? Wow, really incredible work!

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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#169 Post 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.

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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#170 Post by Charles H Jacobus »

Wonderful! That isn't Galvalume is it? Enjoy the work.

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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#171 Post 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 :)
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#172 Post by neil blaber »

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,
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#173 Post by neil blaber »

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,
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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

#174 Post 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

#175 Post by neil blaber »

carrying on with the conversion from bt6 to pre-a, not the easiest feat...
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#176 Post 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.

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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#177 Post by neil blaber »

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.
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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

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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#178 Post 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.
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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#179 Post 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.

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Re: 356 B T6 Restoration

#180 Post 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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