I've seen several cars built with a framework of small diameter steel tubing and skinned in aluminum or steel. How and where is the skin attached to the framework?
Sometimes the wire framework is just to create the shape, it is not part of the finished structure. Other times the edges of panel can be wraped around the frame, similar to the wire edge on the old fenders.
What Uncl said... And sometimes they would put cloth dipped in tar between the Aluminum skin and the steel tube, to help against electrolesis ( sp ).
On Lotuses and a lot of English cars it was just pop riveted. If you can get ahold of the book "Inside Ferrari" by Michael Dregni, it has some3 photos of that kind of body. Ask if your library will get it on ILL or OCLC. Try google "Barchetta", they were built like that too.
[ QUOTE ] Powdercoating also works. [/ QUOTE ] thats exactly what my good buddy phillip did with his model T
Saw a (real) Cobra being restored the other day and the AL skin was simply wraped around the tubing and pop-riveted in place...
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