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kiwighia68
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By any chance is Emiko Japanese for "patches"?
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No, it means girl graced with beauty, or girl child with grace and beauty.
But you've got me thinking. Does anyone know the Japanese for "Patches"?
Maybe I should just go for "Blood, sweat and tears." Or Marathon, which is much the same thing.
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ScottDoonan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 11:19 am Post subject: |
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I am so jealous. Great works friend, hope
To be where your at one day.
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1965 Porsche 356 SC coupe
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John Moxon 
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| KGCoupe wrote: |
By any chance is Emiko Japanese for "patches"?
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Nope this is...パッチ |
Well, I'll be damned. Matches some of the patches too!
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kiwighia68
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It's been a while since I've last posted the progress on this repair job. We've now reached the stage where the external body parts or skin has been welded back onto the inner core of the body. The final tidying up still has to come, but the hardcore metal work and lining up have been completed successfully. It hasn't been easy. The accident damage to the right door pillar assembly - followers of this thread will remember - has pushed a number of parts out of whack and alignment. Instead of racing his rally car this weekend, Phillip has been manipulating the last few parts into shape and into alignment.
The nose was off-kilter and had to be forced into position. This is what the spare wheel well now looks like from above:
The left side for some reason - the damage was on the other side - proved to be more resistant to lining up but Phillip got that aligned today, as far as I can see, well within the factory specifications.
The right hand side was problematic at the front where the bulk of the repairs were done, but now lines up front and rear. Here's the rear.
I'll tidy this thread in a day or so to summarise the lessons we've learned from this repair.
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