model A coupe

all the sheet steel i use in the shop is 18 gauge

Awesome job on those doors, hell the whole car is looking awesome. THUMBS UP

Excellent work.[cl You are replacing most of the body. A person could build a real ratty one with the panels you have removed.

ok so here are some pics i took today, since i forgot to take pics of the making of the actual door skin

once the skin was cut out of new sheet metal, i laid out some lines to show the wheeling pattern to get a crown started on the skin



after some wheeling you can see some shape on the skin





then to get the crown in the other direction you turn the skin 90* and wheel away.



after more wheeling you can see the crown, or compound curve on the skin



moved on to putting the body line on the bottom of the skin



after a run through the bead roller





then broke the edges of the skin

then shrank the edges to follow the crown of the skin

so i went to re skin the driver door today, when i got the old skin off there was a lot of rot and pin holes in the bottom of the door frame, so i had to make a new door bottom.

after a couple hours of bending, drilling and bead rolling i came up with this









after a few more hours of cutting, welding and grinding







had to do some steel buck rivets



pretty much all finished

in black primer ready for the new skin





overall i think it turned out pretty nice

Awsome

Thats a nice job on the door. Looks good

so today i decided to make another hood for the coupe, the more i looked at the first one the more i was not happy with the way it turned out. the new one looks much better. still needs some minor work but coming along

That door repair is ridiculous. I am now going to go and find every single bit of metalwork I have done in my life, push it all into a big hole and bury it.

finally back on this one for some work. i pulled all the sheet metal out to weld all the floor skeleton up and ad some bracing that was all beat up form being a drag car

welding all the 1x1 up







here is how the bracing has been all beat up and destroyed



here is a new brace a bent up to replace the old ones



a before and after shot while making the braces, and some during fabrication pics









a finished pair

new and old



new one in

wendle said:

That door repair is ridiculous. I am now going to go and find every single bit of metalwork I have done in my life, push it all into a big hole and bury it.

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Right. After your last post I am now going to have to dig all that stuff back up, burn it, and then bury it again.

Beautiful work.

wendle said:

Right. After your last post I am now going to have to dig all that stuff back up, burn it, and then bury it again.

Beautiful work.

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Lol! Now that is funny! Nice work as usual......[P

more on this one, things feel like they are going slowly but i am at the point where it is all small detail finish work the seems to take forever and not show much progress.

both new ( front ) braces installed



making the sheet metal panels that will separate the passenger compartment from the trunk area










made the final body mounts and welded them to frame, drilled to be bolt able



lots of grinding on the welds to get the sheet metal to lay flat



floors getting welded in

Nice work that is some expert fabricating there

I love the look of the louvres in the trans tunnel!!! and everything else about this build!

Looks great!

What are you using for an english wheel and how do you like it?

Do you do any pre-stretching with the wheel before running the beads to keep the panels from deforming?

the e wheel i have is a cheap HF unit, and well it works lol i have used but it works ok for the money and gets decent results . some times i do a pre stretching it depends on the bead width, depth, and panel size.