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sandhopper
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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:39 pm Post subject: hood |
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I like the windsheild frame on this buggy , would love to do that to mine
Do you have a mold for that ? |
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HeidelbergJohn4.0
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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fairly certain its a Sharpbuilt GS Limo they started with.
http://www.sharpbuilt.com.au/sharpbuilt1/home.htm
ECR in Maine used to sell them before they started assembling Manxters. They use a super beetle windsccreen. Would be fairly straight forward to splash one off of a super body and graft it into a manx hood/dash. I looked into one years ago. IIRC, they have an inner steel frame too.
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monomanx
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how is the hood project coming?
heidelberg, where did the manxters all go that ecr built? they were impressive builds |
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Iguana
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| HeidelbergJohn4.0 wrote: |
fairly certain its a Sharpbuilt GS Limo they started with.
http://www.sharpbuilt.com.au/sharpbuilt1/home.htm
ECR in Maine used to sell them before they started assembling Manxters. They use a super beetle windsccreen. Would be fairly straight forward to splash one off of a super body and graft it into a manx hood/dash. I looked into one years ago. IIRC, they have an inner steel frame too. |
hmm sort of, we splashed it off the Panther GS which is what Mike copied to Make the First Sharpbuilt GS off and then he copied a Bounty Hunter for the V2.
By the time we finished that was all that was left of the old girl, the screen surround.
As suggested it is an L-Bug / Curved Beetle Screen which we grafted into a front sealed section.
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sandhopper
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:59 am Post subject: hood |
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[quote="monomanx"]how is the hood project coming?
I got a bit side tracked again , picked up a Polaris Ranger UTV that needs some work
That will make it to the top of the list so it can move to make some $ for all the other projects
I really like the curved screen , so if I understand this I could splash off a super bug to make the mold , I assume a convertable is the best to use
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Iguana
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:46 am Post subject: Re: hood |
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how is the hood project coming?
I got a bit side tracked again , picked up a Polaris Ranger UTV that needs some work
That will make it to the top of the list so it can move to make some $ for all the other projects
I really like the curved screen , so if I understand this I could splash off a super bug to make the mold , I assume a convertable is the best to use
Larry |
Correct Vert screen will be easier as you don't have to worry about cutting it out |
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HeidelbergJohn4.0
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thanks for posting those pictures. I had talked to Mike(?) at ECR about the GS limo windscreens.
I don't know if he was delivering bodies shipped from Australia or if they had molds. He said the entire front of the body was fairly different from a typical manx/clone.
Not sure what happened to ECR building Manxters. They appeared to do very nice work, but they did also seem to be a bit critical of some parts of the manxter in their write ups. The yellow buggy was like #003 I think, which was originally built a relative of Bruce Meyers. It was the one from the BFG ads.
splashing a superbeetle windshield and cowl, then custom fabbing it to fit a manx and an opening hood like the kickout would be awesome..
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sandhopper
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:11 pm Post subject: hood |
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Again with distraction
I found a full lenght buggy that need some repair , picked it up cheap
The hood from it fits much better , so I will try and make a copy of it
Now the question I have , is if I'm only going to make a copy do I need to make a mold from this and then make the hood
Can I just cover the hood with release wax and lay fiberglass on top and use that as the new hood
Larry |
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