ultra fun 23 build lol
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after many hours of grinding itching and saying bad words and my whole garage looking like it snowed I got it down to this
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and ended up with this
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the floor is made from 3/4 inch plywood and the trans tunnel was made by laying a old rain coat and cardboard was laid over the transmission used for mockup and and then several layers of glass covered over it
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next was on to the hood and grill shell. I knew I wanted a hood so I decided to make one from scratch which required a lot of work as I wanted it to actually rest on the firewall so it looked like it actually was ment to be on the car
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here is the framework that I made to start with then I covered it with cloth and then layered it with several layers of glass
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I then cut the body at the fire wall and made a lip for the hood to sit on and also made a lip on the grill shell for a cleaner look
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the grill shell was very thin and not useable in the shape it was in so I added more glass to it all over for strength and had to split the front and redo it so it was flat.here is the finished piece
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followed by many days of body work because I'm not very good at it. my father was a body man for a living so I was used to him doing the things for me but he passed away a couple of years ago so I had to do this one myself lol he made it look easy for sure.
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next was on to mocking up the headers and I knew I wanted lakestyle headers but couldn't justify the cost. so I decided to make them here are some pics of them before I finished welding them as I do not have a current pic of them
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I made them out of heavy wall 90 degree conduit bends and made the cone out of 3 inch heavy conduit that I cut a pie slice out of and used clamps to slowly close the piece up with clamps and a hammer and dolly. to get the cone shape and welded them up I have sinc finished ground them and covered them with black header wrap I wanted to make a original set of lake pipes out of a 1935 ford driveshaft cut in the middle for the cones but could not locate one at the time so I just made them lol.
