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Old 08-20-2018, 05:02 AM
Peter Tommasini Peter Tommasini is offline
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Default interesting shape

Hi Guys,
Most of you would know what a 1959 Cadillac ''spears'' or ''cones'' are. They fit on the quarter panel wing of the Caddy. These panels can hold water and rust out at the bottom quite badly. A client approached me to make these parts because he had them fixed by someone who just cut the rusted section out and welded a patch in. What they didn't realize was that the heat from the weld turned the shape at the bottom the opposite way (they were bowing the opposite way). He had no choice but to make new parts. The old ones are in blue because after filling them they could not be chromed as they were meant to be. It was a very interesting shape to make


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Peter
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