Looks awesome!! I'm jealous. Cant wait to find time to learn how to do this!! Keep up the great work!!
You did a very nice job of the shell, your metal finishing skills are very good. I make shells for lots of exotic cars, I made one for a Ferrari worth over a million (GB Pounds) it took me forty hours including traveling to the workshop where the rest of the work was being done twice (an hours drive each way)(to take patterns and then to fit it) and they still moaned about the cost. Here is a photo of a couple of SS100 shell I hand made in brass. the original is in the background. A link to the thread showing how if you are interested (the Ferrari grill is on there) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637003 Keep up the good work! David
Wow, I just read through that thread, amazing work. I especially like the buck/hammerform that you made for those shells. And your gas welding on the brass is also amazing. I can only imagine the amount of metal finishing required on a part that is to be plated. Thanks for sharing the link and for the kind words.
Congratulations on a job well done! The handmade parts are the thing that separates a 1-800 car from a true work of art.
Thanks for your interest, its good to see young people learning this skill. I have made more than two hundred of the SS100 style shells, the buck is about 23 years old now so worse for wear. It takes me about a day to make all the parts and weld them together then two days to get them metal finished. The insert is a lot of work as well. Most of the work is hand beaten, only about ten minutes of wheeling on the side pieces (if that). I prefer gas welding, I gas weld almost everything I make. I have a couple of other metalshaping threads you may like, click my avatar to find them if you are interested. David
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Wow! That is awesome. May I ask, how long did it take you from start to finish? I'm really curious. I'm very impressed!
Just wanted to bring this back to the top... Joe and his shell was just featured on Wayne Carini's show on the Velocity channel, Chasing Classic Cars... Nice job Joe!
I saw the show a couple weeks ago. I had just read this thread a couple days before that! Very nice work!
oldspwr, Blue Moon Garage, & 35fordcoupe - Just an FYI ... I posted the Chasing Classic Cars clip back on post #109.
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