[sammons]

Did a little more slicing and dicing on the grill shell. I think I got it heading in the right direction anyway. 

[madmike3434]

absolutely nothing stands in your way of building the car..........the marine boast of Clint Eastwood, ADAPT AND OVERCOME, certainly applies.

2 thumbs up !

mike       

[vette59jdwl]

Looking realy cool there SAMMONS. The front wheels look like the 8 inch corvette rims i bought for the rear of the vette. Tried the 10 inch but they were just a little tight on the rear.

[chopper526]

Sammons, that grill shell looks great. I used the same/similar radiator in my car. I only used a rubber pad as a mounting cushion. I may have to take a closer look at my set up.......

[sammons]

Thanks Mike, just wish I weren't so dang slow anymore. I'm like Ghost was the other day, do a little and go take a nap

Vette that's what they are, 8". I would like to come across a pair of 10" for the rear someday. My brother had a set a few years back, but they where too wide for anything we had at the time and he sold them.

Thanks Chopper, glad to see you made it back with out a rescue party! 

Next hurdle,  filling in around the control arm bolt. Bent these up and got one tacked in. Damn I can't see in low light anymore. That's alright I guess time to quit today anyway.

[TFoch]

It's all fitting up real nice Sammons.  Nice fab work
Tom

[sammons]

I didn't get around to fixing the welder, but I did get my inner grill gaurd painted and bolted up (test fit)

I didn't have enough 1x2 tubing to make the lower mounting point, so I used 1x3.  Scrounged around and found some shock eye tubes to make weld in spuds out of.  Drilled the mounting holes in the crossmember and the gaurd, capped the ends and welded everything up. Man that thing is solid. maybe tomorrow i'll see about mounting the a/c condenser on the back side. Then look at the welder if I ain't wore out.

[ghost28]

Nicely done. with all the craftsmanship around here I have started humming the theme music from the a team.

[chopper526]

Nicely done. with all the craftsmanship around here I have started humming the theme music from the a team.

Or McGyver...... Sammons, that looks SOLID!!

[sammons]

I got my hood patern made up yesterday. Had three buddy's come by last night and we got the first stage of the bending done. I'm really happy with the longer nose.

Next will be tweeking the shape and fit. Then just 4 rows of louvers on top, trimming the sides, fabbing up the side bead.

[logride]

Looks awesome, I can't think of a car that I thought the nose was too long.

[ghost28]

nice job. The longer nose is starting to look like my buicks length.

[sammons]

Thanks fellas, I've always liked the long nose on the Duesenbergs. Would like to build a Duesenberg coupe hot rod, but that'll never happen.

Curiosity got the best of me, measured up the side of the hood. Just above the body reveal bead it is 46" to the grill shell plus the extra 2.5" added to the grill shell. If the internet info is correct the hood is 3 3/4" longer than the master.

[sammons]

Well got the hood fitted up today. I welded #9 wire to the front and back to stiffen up the shape.  That allowed me to finally get it to sit correctly to the contours with out clamps. Needed a little more crown so I got the redneck english wheel out (rolling pin) worked great and a lot faster than I thought it would.   Cut and notched the back side ends of 3/4" conduit for the body line bead and got it tacked on. By monday I think i'll be ready for the 76 louvers.

[madmike3434]

  76 louvers in the top, sounds about right, as my 35 standard hood could only take 38 per half = 76 top hood...
louvers are a bear to paint and more so polish.. Depending on your louver dies they may leave a 1/4--3/8" tail at each end of the straight punch line.  Nothing I could do to make the panel perfect with those on the ends of the louvers.