Trevor Gates Metal Werks
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Fish tacos are the bestist. If I lived closer I would be in line.
- Daryl Bertram
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Standing inline for those fish tacos I would be wearing a mask and keeping my six foot distance as Trevor has requested. Jack Staggs is a West Coast 356 legend and we need to keep him safe.
- Trevor Gates
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Frank - Yes you’re correct.
Btw, the carpet set with the red piping that you so generously gave me, I gave to a customer, now friend, in need and he installed it in his car - a 60 Coupe, bought brand new by Joe Leoni. Adam - Of course!
Daryl -
Btw, the carpet set with the red piping that you so generously gave me, I gave to a customer, now friend, in need and he installed it in his car - a 60 Coupe, bought brand new by Joe Leoni. Adam - Of course!
Daryl -
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+1Alex Mestas wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:17 pm Congratulations Trevor! Best of luck on the new venture.
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+1C J Murray wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:36 pm Looks good. Congratulations! I wish you great success.
Make sure to get some business advise from people who have been in the restoration business awhile. They can be a great asset to help you avoid the business mistakes that they learned the hard way.
Mike
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+1Vic Skirmants wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:32 amCouldn't have said it better myself; except I would have spelled it "advice".C J Murray wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:36 pm Looks good. Congratulations! I wish you great success.
Make sure to get some business advise from people who have been in the restoration business awhile. They can be a great asset to help you avoid the business mistakes that they learned the hard way.
... when Wise people speak, Listen... there are "Encouragers". and "Discouragers", the University of Life, teaches us the difference. The Best, Trevor...!
Mike
- Trevor Gates
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I recently finished up the battery box and center tunnel on a 55 Speedster. The floor from Stoddard worked out really well. (I hand made the center tunnel with sway bar depression and various flanges.) Stoddard’s floor is 18 gauge and it was a little over-sized so I could trim it to fit.
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Congratulations, Trevor, it’s great to know there’s a new local resource.
- Trevor Gates
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Thanks Jim.
Here’s the 55 after being painted, seam sealed and undercoated.
Here’s the 55 after being painted, seam sealed and undercoated.
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- Trevor Gates
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I thought I’d share a heater tube/longitudinal/front & rear closing panel/rear frame repair I did recently. What makes this particular repair different is:
1. I was able to do the heater tube in one straight tube through the frame rail.
2. Weld the whole heater tube, brackets and rear frame rail in as one sub-assembly.
By doing the repair this way it allowed me access to get 100% of the tube welded to the frame. Lastly, the car is a T5 so it would have had the paper/fabric sound deadener. I’m using a Cherry Bomb glass pack muffler for the sound deadening, which also brought back the structural rigidity like the Pre A and A cars had.
1. I was able to do the heater tube in one straight tube through the frame rail.
2. Weld the whole heater tube, brackets and rear frame rail in as one sub-assembly.
By doing the repair this way it allowed me access to get 100% of the tube welded to the frame. Lastly, the car is a T5 so it would have had the paper/fabric sound deadener. I’m using a Cherry Bomb glass pack muffler for the sound deadening, which also brought back the structural rigidity like the Pre A and A cars had.
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Trevor
Good idea, the muffler will make that area much stronger, I would have added another bracket before I put the outer longotudional on, specifically at the front end to stiffen the entire repair. nice job,
Good idea, the muffler will make that area much stronger, I would have added another bracket before I put the outer longotudional on, specifically at the front end to stiffen the entire repair. nice job,
John Brooks
62 Roadster
66 912
84 Cab
getting pushed around in porsches since 1965
62 Roadster
66 912
84 Cab
getting pushed around in porsches since 1965
- Harlan Halsey
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Nice job.
The heater tube isn't a structural element, and I wouldn't like the weight of the Cherry Bomb. But when we did that job on my '56 installing the brackets was difficult. In retrospect I wish we had removed the heater tube and replaced it with the brackets as a unit as you did. We added another bracket to better support the jack spur.
The heater tube isn't a structural element, and I wouldn't like the weight of the Cherry Bomb. But when we did that job on my '56 installing the brackets was difficult. In retrospect I wish we had removed the heater tube and replaced it with the brackets as a unit as you did. We added another bracket to better support the jack spur.
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Nice job! I should have had you do my 912 which has been in the body shop for over 4 years for not very much work - but maybe you're strictly 356.
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Nice shirt in the upside down photo, Trevor. Whenever I wear mine around my 2 YO grandson, he says "Porsche shirt" Gotta start them young...