MadaboutKitcars

Why not use dzus fasteners and make it removable..
Unless I misunderstood your post.

Molleur
Thanks for the reply yes it will be removable i'll be using some sort of clips.

cheers

Deggsy

Deggsy - Your aluminium half tonneau cover will look spectacular.

Good luck with all the drilling and riveting required.

Cheers, Paul.

hard cover

Almost finished now all the supports and alloy sheet have been made and drilled fixed with over 200 pop rivets.



The panel was then etch primed and all the rivets heads filled and flatted to look like old fashion rivets rather than the pop ones.

Etch primed again then the same process for the end fillets.


The fillets will be removable, ready for painting now I have left six rivets out into which i will fit some m4x30mm button head bolts which will have tabs on them to hold the panel in place if that isn't secure enough then i'll fit some boot locks
Cheers back soon.

fantastic job, well done!

You filled the heads of 200 rivets!

Rather you than me, but great job

Good luck, Paul.

Yep took me the best part of two days and there are still a few that have to be re done. doh!

Not a lot been happening lately but I finally took the plunge and bought a compressor the car is now up on ramps ready to be flatted back for primer. I have also been cleaning the garage ready for painting the car


I am hoping to start spraying it next week if all goes well
I will post photos when done.

Best of luck with the paint, make the most of the warm dry weather, its about as good as it gets for painting at home !

Paint

The car has now had two coats of high build primer which showed up a few flaws which we missed these have now been stoppered flatted and re sprayed.
I am hoping for nicer weather tomorrow to apply the top coats

Looking good. Am I going mad tho... those pics look like they are the same pics from the 24th?

Hmmm my apologies you are right i don't know what happened there the photos I took seem to have vanished into the either.
Never mind I will post some of the finished paint job in the next day or two.

Hope the painting is going well and I'm looking forward to seeing it in colour.

Good luck, Paul.

painting finished

Finished the painting late last night there are a few small runs but nothing major I will leave it a few days to fully cure then start on butting it all back together.









I do have a small confession to make I didn't spray it myself my nephew volunteered and as he has sprayed a half dozen or so in the past who was I to refuse his kind offer.

And thanks for the encouragement guys.

looking good!

I have started putting it all back together some of the lights are in place.

For some reason the doors and boot lid don't line up any more incredible the difference a coat or two of paint makes! also the boot lid support bracket which is/was bonded on decided to un-bond itself twice I am looking into other bonding materials as I don't want to drill a hole in the lid and bolt it in place.




It should look a bit like this when they are fitted properly eep:

Very nice!

Make sure to remove ALL of the old bonding material.
I have been using UPOL Tiger Seal with success.

That looks fantastic!
Hats off to you sir!

Deggsy - Your car is coming together very nicely.

I am sure it will look even better when you get the chance to roll it out into natural light.

Good luck with getting everything to fit as nicely as you would like.

Although, I recently posted these photos on the Miglia forum….

As the key thing to remember is that back in the ‘50s, these cars were built like this…



Not like this.



So if you do end up with some odd panel gaps, just say the body shell for the car was hand built.

Cheers, Paul.

I finally managed to get the boot support bracket to bond using a two pack epoxy, I didn't have any tiger seal left doh.



The windscreen is in place but not fixed yet I have made some brackets, bent twisted and drilled. Rubbish photo sorry.

I actually made three of these but drilled the first one before bending and twisting needless to say the holes didn't line up school boy error.
As they will be in full view I had better make a good job of painting them.

I managed to get a bit more done this week. The chrome covers for the wiper boxes didn't fit do made up some new ones from ally and inner tube rubber for the seals.



looking much better now.

the washer jets have also been fitted I had to tap a thread in the Fiberglas as it was too thick to attach the locating nut.
I also made a third attempt at the interior mirror top mount.


This is how it looks now.

not too bad
The mirrors are pretty much useless and will need some fetteling
I have made some card templates for the door screens and am waiting for the perspex and aluminium to arrive.

The perspex arrived this week for the doors I used masking tape to protect it when cutting with a jigsaw and for marking out I had to be very careful as I only had one shot to get them right.

I also bought new blades for the jigsaw just to be sure.
they were drilled and temporarily fitted with cleko's (is that how you spell it?)


They still need some trimming and then I have to find some edging for them and a alloy strip for the bottom edge hopefully it will all work out ok

I made some alloy strips from 1.2 alloy sheet and shrunk them to shape the first un-drilled one i shrank too far and is useless three attempts later I managed to have two good ones.

they will look a bit like this when finished

I found some alloy effect edging but it wouldn't bend around the curve at the rear top of the perspex so I had to angle them like this.

Not sure if its better or worst any opinions?

It's a detail that's neither here or there. The car looks fantastic and it will be viewed as a whole. Only you the builder will see every detail that has niggled you during the build. Everyone else will just say, "Wow."