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[kiwi john]

Neil

You build the car basically from scratch by hand then you go and buy headlight buckets. Don't be selfish. Send them back and show us how to make them by hand.

When its finished people will point to those repros and laugh.

( its the small things that count in a project of this magnitude )

Always there to support you. Johnny Leftie

[neilb]

thank you mark

thank you justin i did get hold of an engine lid locally but it was in need of serious repair so i gave it back, i thought if i have to do major repair work i may as well make a new one.

only a small update...

i had a delivery been looking for some good headlight buckets as i've read some are good and some are... well not good lol












they look great quality and can't wait to weld them in the nose panel. i'll be re-reading the details that you wrote justin when you fitted them in the coupe-speedster conversion

thanks for watching

[JTR70]

Neil, you do realize that you can actually buy some of these parts right?

Amazing fabrication skills!
Justin

[merbesfield]

Damn, you have some mad skills there! Great work and enjoying your posts. That uncut front end reminds me of the Batmobile. Thanks for taking time to post.

[neilb]

little update, well i actually forgot about this, not entirely but i thought i'd posted these pic's but i hadn't. here goes lol
















that machine i made sure does come in handy! looks pretty close to real engine lid, i'm doing the backing that the hinges bolt to right now, i made some new dies for this machine and it's coming on

thanks for watching and following along

[neilb]

also got the hinge brackets spot welded to the hood frame we made up at peter's, and i got that bolted to the car for the first time too








not too bad really, i can work with that. had to make a new upper bulkhead panel (what the hinge pockets weld too) but it was quicker than the first attempt lol

thanks for watching

[neilb]

well it's been a while since i last updated this thread, so here we go...










clamped the nose panel to the rain channel at the nose to get an idea of it's true width, as it's been a long time since it's had a nose panel on it

[neilb]

BTW are you getting any requests to build panels?

i can safely say no. why anyone would want to do that? lol

i do plan on building another body after this one though, that should be fun lol

thanks for the kind words justin

[JTR70]

The new door skin and the cowl/fender section are just beautiful Neil! The shapes look spot on. BTW are you getting any requests to build panels?
Thank you for sharing your amazing work once again!
Justin

[neilb]

and a quick look at the door skin









thanks for watching

[neilb]

well it's been a while since i last updated this thread, lots of things going on as usual... i've got one door on with the outer skin attached, the other door is almost ready for the skin to be attached, and then mounted back on. i've had to make another windscreen scuttle as i wasn't all that happy with the first, and i've made the l/h front guard/fender/wing in two pieces instead of three like i did the r/h. that was more complicated holding it together to do a 4ft weld lol










top of the l/h guard/fender





closer fit now

[DG58INNM]

That's just amazing

[JTR70]

Impressive end results as always Neil! Thank you for showing a few tools and techniques.

[neilb]

here are some more pic's as promised lol, they are the tools used to make that front piece, obviously I have to hammer in the recess for the bonnet striker but that's easy enough










hope that's worked I'm on my mobile lol, the outer had a quick sand and the majority of the hammer marks have gone.

I have to add, the small ball pien hammer has had the flat face rounded slightly, and the ball end has had the point removed

thanks

[neilb]

hey Mark, thank you,

my arms are pretty normal really,it was done freehand no wooden buck, all done with simple tools,sandbag wooden bossing mallet, hammer and dolly. I took it up to peters to run it through the dies on the pullmax to clean it up, but it still has hammer marks in it now.

I shall post a couple of pics as it its now

thanks again