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Old 10-16-2016, 11:48 AM
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Alfa Romeo 8C2900B coupe [note: images courtesy of former owner]




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Old 10-16-2016, 05:02 PM
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Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw these pictures. We have restored both of these cars!! The first one with the body still on is chassis # 412036, we did that car in 2005. The other one with the body off is chassis #412020 and we are currently restoring it.If you have any more pictures it would be very helpful. If you look on our website you can see #412036 finished.
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Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw these pictures. We have restored both of these cars!!
Very familiar with your work. Check your PM's.

I'm going to wait a few more years before I show the pictures to the public for 412035 that I took during the restoration process.
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Old 10-17-2016, 05:39 PM
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Fantastic chaps!

Should I be lucky to live long enough to finish the current projects and still have the use of my eyes and hands, would love to build an 8C 2900 MM Spyder. One of the most beautiful cars of all time my my humble opinion.

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Thanks again Mark for your fantastic photos. It is SO MUCH more helpful to see a body in it's naked aluminum rather than in primer or paint. And I am eager to see what you are working on now.
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Am I correct is seeing a copper wire wrapped around the roof supports??
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Old 02-02-2017, 11:15 AM
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Hi Mark
I just finished going through this entire thread.
Wanted to thank you for the thread and posting all the pictures
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Old 02-02-2017, 12:26 PM
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[IMG] Am I correct is seeing a copper wire wrapped around the roof supports??
Remember the entire aluminum roof skin "floats" except screwed/crimped attachment typically at door and window openings and lower attachment. I've seen canvas and burlap used to wrap the steel inner structure (which typically isn't perfectly smooth -- see other phots) and held in place with binding (cotton or ??? -- I can't remember anymore). The chassis and bodywork structures on these flexed and the aluminum skin needs to flex accordingly to avoid binding or damaging itself. (ditto for thermal expansion in the sun) It seems rather simplistic but it works given the very large size of the welded cockpit bodywork aluminum panel. Galvanic corrosion was not why they did this.

Good eye. Most people miss entirely the canvas aspect.
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Remember the entire aluminum roof skin "floats" except screwed/crimped attachment typically at door and window openings and lower attachment. I've seen canvas and burlap used to wrap the steel inner structure (which typically isn't perfectly smooth -- see other phots) and held in place with binding (cotton or ??? -- I can't remember anymore). The chassis and bodywork structures on these flexed and the aluminum skin needs to flex accordingly to avoid binding or damaging itself. (ditto for thermal expansion in the sun) It seems rather simplistic but it works given the very large size of the welded cockpit bodywork aluminum panel. Galvanic corrosion was not why they did this.

Good eye. Most people miss entirely the canvas aspect.
Likewise, I have also found cotton felt, canvas and burlap in the Touring bodywork, and brushed over with hot tar. I replaced the felt but not the burlap and hot tar - show judges are universally unsympathetic to such accuracies ....

....the burlap/tar seals out the pernicious air flows - which arrive inside the car accompanied by dirt, mud and etc. accoutrements ...... Must be nice to arrive with clean luggage ....
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