If you've built a custom body in the past, show us some pictures. Really looking to learn more about the process of building the bucks and sheet metal construction process.
I haven't built a custom body - yet, but plan to in the future. For the last few years I have been participating in Metal Meet online and attending some of their metal meet gatherings to attempt to learn more about metal shaping. The web site is www.metalmeet.com and there are a couple of others that are worth visiting as well. The folks on all the sites are very gracious about giving help, encouragement, and answering questions. Plus you will find loads of information, pictures, plans, etc. But, most of all, the best advice is to get some metal and get out in your shop and bang on it. One other thought just came to mind and that is you can see lots of metal working / shaping on You Tube and there are many DVDs available that will give you assistance. One in particular is by 'Mindover' who posts here as well. David Gardner(Mindover) shows many ways to do amazing projects using a very limited range of tools - not high dollar, high powered, but things you have or can construct. David has all of those tools too, but knows that many of us are just getting started and need to understand that we can do an awful lot even if we don't yet have fancy tools. Hope some of this rambling gives you some help. Jay
Oh yea check out Matt Seret's cool little euro car he's building... Totally from scratch... Lots of wood bucks and shenanigans going on in his threads!!
Here is a buck I built for '36 ford coupe fenders. I made it out of steel so I could use it as a hammerform for the running board panel, and the bead. This is the thread I started. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=380195&showall=1 And here is a link to the album where there's a bunch more pictures. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=380195
Hell - as much work as you have in it - I would bolt the buck on the car and drive it that way ... nice work. Joe
here is a link for you...this guy built a complete C-cab. ive included a couple of pics from his build. http://www.clubhotrod.com/hot-rod-build-logs/47881-new-home-made-c-cab.html