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Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:30 am

Was going to weld some today. Almost finished welding the 20y old tackwelded seams over the cowl. But ran out of welding gas before I could finish the cowl....

Just a few inches more....

Oh well... Starts to look so much better when the seams starts to vanish!

Sun Feb 09, 2025 10:43 pm

Just caught back up! Nice work! The car is looking good and your skills are amazing!

Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:18 pm

Working on new panels.

Sat Mar 01, 2025 4:52 pm

Awesome work as usual sir.
Tim

Sun Mar 02, 2025 12:01 am

Thanks!
Yesterday I started fixing my old hackjob to delete/hide the square support tube with more hebmuller like box support. First welded in the backplate so i could cut the top of the square tube and angle it down so it fits inside the boxes.

Now I all I need to do is to adjust the panels before welding!

Also got the last welds finished on the top of the cowl

Also spent a few evenings to adjust the shapes of the top boxes for perfect fitment. Now they are done so I primed the insides ready for welding.

Sun Mar 16, 2025 8:41 am

Major progress now when I got these assembled and fully welded!

Thu Mar 20, 2025 1:04 am

Now these are fitted and ready eor final welding!!

Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:16 am

Been working on rearhood hingemount parts lately. Will be built from parts of split fronthood hingemounts combined with scratchbuilt parts.

Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:19 am

Yesterday I got the parts for the first hingemount tacked together before I ran out of welding gas... :roll:

Sun Apr 13, 2025 12:23 pm

Got the hingemounts welded and tacked to the hood.

After tacking the mounts I needed to check the fitment to hinges and body.
Looks like the lots of measuring and eyeballing have paid out!

Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:31 am

Kris - OUTSTANDING WORK! That is no simple feat! Getting that double complex curved panel to sit perfectly after heating it up in different spots is jaw dropping! My hat is off to you sir!

Can you swing by my place and make my hood look that nice?

Keep running for the finish line!

Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:00 am

Started mocking up the shelf/raincatcher in cardboard the past week.
As this is supposed to replicate early hebmuller details also the shelf is curved in several directions.

After a bit of tweaking and heatscratching I did get the shape pretty much as I had planned.

After this I just needed to fit the rear fenders and taillights to check bodylines and fitment between all the parts. So far it's looking good! Just some minor adjustments to get everything to fit perfectly.

Mon Apr 21, 2025 10:40 am

Today I welded the shelf. Here's how it ended up in final shape.

Now welded. Left the edge over the firewall still unwelded as I want to adjust it some to ensure the firewall stays straight.

Also now finally welded the left rear triangle repair panel. When it was done I also added the bumpermounts.

Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:18 am

Wow! Looking good!

Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:36 am

So happy that I finally coming to the point that I can start fitting and mount the roof folding mechanism mounts and parts I made way back in 2016!

Also now hamnered the edge roughly!

Lots of small shaping and forming here too for perfect fit!

Sun May 04, 2025 1:17 am

Even the smallest details are important even thoughnever visible later...

Soon time to weld them!

Also got to weld these Hebmuller only details that I manufactured a year ago!

Tue May 06, 2025 9:13 pm

Got the cab frame mounts welded to the B-pillars.
Now I could testfit the cabframe I built in 2016.
Looks like a 9 years younger me did do some thinking and planning ahead as everything seems to fit!

Wed May 07, 2025 4:32 am

Taking shape nicely!

Sat May 17, 2025 9:50 am

Rearbow steelbars shaped roughly so I can now mock up the roof. It looks to my eyeballing that the shape is now getting close to final shape.

Sun May 18, 2025 4:51 pm

That profile looks just about perfect!