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Nick its just bloody amazing mate, you're gonna have to get this to the shows. Have you looked at southern not car club? I've been a member a while and its a great club. BTW are your front and rear wheels and three the same rolling diameter?
Thanks. Never really done car clubs...went to a Morris Minor rally years ago, and it was a bit weird....maybe because mine was modified. I like Goodwood, in fact I have a friend racing there on sat. Lots of escorts going sideways hopefully! Free entry. Thats a couple of car clubs.
Re wheels/tyres, both are 24 1/4", or 615.95mm to you nippers.
I'm sure you have this one covered; I'm intrigued as to how the flip front meets up with the front door and sill....looking at the 'side on' profile it doesn't look like anything that hinges downward would clear the door curves (have I explained this well enough?) ... or in laymans terms; the sill bit of the flip front will stick out too far and scrape down the door til it finds its home position.??
Ah well yes, on the mk 1 Mazda there is a handy line down the middle of the door which, if I was following Tributes instructions and building this kit as easily as it should be, and not complicating every bit of it.......I should fill in.
However, I am going to cut the front shell on a continuation of that (swage?) line and the lower part will stay fixed and the upper part will elevate, as they say in Trumpton.
I may chop it tomorrow..........
JG, Chargerstang and Bigrich thankyou! By endurance we conquer !
I took a run down to Dorset today to Tribute workshop to collect my replacement bonnet. Chris and Dan were very welcoming and also sorted me out with some other bits and pieces. Many thanks for making it so quickly, and sorry for taking up so much of your afternoon....
The workshop and yard were packed with cars in all stages of build, from the moulds, to ones being laminated, new projects underway, finished bodies and the finished MX250C. Like most cars this one looks so much better in the flesh than in pictures.
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A Jaguar D-type shell awaiting collection.
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An A352 in black gell coat awaiting its GRP:
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Main workshop and Artisans!!
Tributes workshop is sited on a garage and I happened to meet with the owner who has been running the garage for 60 years! He is in his early eighties but still enjoys cycling to and from work, and servicing cars. He draws the line at Dual mass flywheels but has just serviced a nice Austin A35.
Here is the MOT bay:
Hi Nick have a look at this one ebay.com/ebaymotors/1962-FERRARI-GTO-replicar-PROJECT-/390537472159?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item5aedd8e89f#ht_29582wt_1161
Thanks for covering my bold spot up Nick! You could have given Dan a funny hat too, he's always wearing that Sombrero, it keeps the dust out of his eye's.
Bit of a long afternoon/evening. I wanted to get my new bonnet in whilst I have room so removed all the flanges from the body and feathered the edges. Chris had not made the lip on the new bonnet so that just needed feathering. Set it up upside down and ran a couple of battens over the join and fitted some self tapper to hold it in p;lace. Turned it over then fitted ply strips over the join with closely spaced self tappers to pull the bonnet and wings nicely in line. The ply is parcel taped on the inside so it does not stick (ok I forgot to do one bit!)
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Anyway all ready to turn ang glass in place, but I started to look again at where I had blocked off the vents. There was a 'hard spot' at the top of the vents where the slope changed. This is not noticable with the vents in place but to lose it properly would mean a lot of filler. So I thought sod it, its got to go...on the grounds of weight! marked it out and cut out an oval....Gulp.
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Feathered the edges and fastened a layer of smooth foam plastic stuff over the top. starting at the bottom and working my way equally around the sides as its a compound curve. A bit of a bubble at the top, but a small slit layed the panel flat enough.
Turned the bonnet over, put on two coats of flow coat (ran out of gel) and glassed in a few layers, plus a foam core to stiffen things up bit. Well you never know, some model may want to drape herself over the bonnet...........
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Glassed in the bonnet, but only one layer as I ran out of CSM. By this time it was very late but then had another idea!!!
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Put a couple of layers of matt on the wing edges, then put the old steel wings on, located by the tech-screw holes from before. folded the glass around the wing edge, and if the wing pops off tomorrow I should have nice wing returns. If they line up with the door I'll eat my hat!!
After a wet aftenoon at Goodwood, watching Escorts going sideways, and flipping quick to, its time for the steel frame to get glassed in..
I have added some thin still pads at the only hard spot to prevent crazing later.
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The frame is now glassed in with two layers. Just got glass under the return for the new shut line. Tomorrow it gets fitted for good. Well, if you know what I mean!
Chris, I need the number of your physiciastist, or maybe I just l need to learn to spell shrink ?
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Like most cars this one looks so much better in the flesh than in pictures.
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Bit of a long afternoon/evening. I wanted to get my new bonnet in whilst I have room so removed all the flanges from the body and feathered the edges. Chris had not made the lip on the new bonnet so that just needed feathering. Set it up upside down and ran a couple of battens over the join and fitted some self tapper to hold it in p;lace. Turned it over then fitted ply strips over the join with closely spaced self tappers to pull the bonnet and wings nicely in line. The ply is parcel taped on the inside so it does not stick (ok I forgot to do one bit!)
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