1941 chrysler coupe build

Vent and wiper holes delete.


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Holy fabrication Batman !!! You sir have some serious skills. I had no idea you had a restoration thread going, and I do a lot of reading here. Read this thread from the start and what a roller coaster of emotions I felt, from excitement, to amazement, to sadness. Then it hit me, perfection is your guiding light and it shows.

I greatly enjoyed reading this thread and will be looking for it from here on out.

Thanks for sharing !!!
 
1A Rock said:
Glad to see some updates, I was worried this had fell into the "Land of Undone"! Great work.
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Thanks.

I never give up. I ended up stopping to do body work and paint on my El Camino over the winter.
Lots more to add yet. I have an interesting firewall coming up so stay tuned.
 
MJM said:
Holy fabrication Batman !!! You sir have some serious skills. I had no idea you had a restoration thread going, and I do a lot of reading here. Read this thread from the start and what a roller coaster of emotions I felt, from excitement, to amazement, to sadness. Then it hit me, perfection is your guiding light and it shows.

I greatly enjoyed reading this thread and will be looking for it from here on out.

Thanks for sharing !!!
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Thanks. Robert does perfection. I do just enough to get close to the shapes needed and then will gladly use some Bondo to get the final shapes.
 
Next up was the center part of the cowl where the two hood halves used to hinge from.
I heated it cherry red and found a 1/4" thick bar to use as a dolly while red hot. It proved to be the correct size.


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Found this hood hinge on line after a fella posted a pic of them on another thread.
I'll make my own later. Just used strips of metal shaped to suit to test them.


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AC unit hanging with a couple of straps to check for wipers and pipes for defog fitment. To get the wiper transmissions into place, I needed to cut openings into the defog duct . The transmissions get installed and then the covers get screwed on last.


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Before continuing on the firewall, I had to go back to the hinges.
Another mock up was made using double strips and the size adjusted.
I needed to weld 1/4" plate inside the cowl to bolt the hinges to.


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Messy welding but it's moving forward nonetheless. A reminder, I have nothing against Bondo.
I can do that quicker than making perfect metal.

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I took a tape pattern off the DS side to cut the PS hole.

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This piece was shaped by just tapping a bit on a dolly.



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And of course like every other piece I've made (other than stuff done on the press brake), the shape was off again.

Look closely for the bright light coming thru in the first pic. The plywood board is reasonably flat.


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Slice, dice, and weld to correct.




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Also, move the bends using a hammer and dolly. This leaves some bad bumps.



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No gaps now, although, the nice panels I started with are quite mucked up.





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