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Introducing myself, from Southwest Florida...
Hi all, Randy here!
I've been playing with cars, almost exclusively 2-seat sportscars, for over forty (>40) years. While I've never attempted to fabricate too complex of a shape, I've done my share of making up patch-panels for rust/collision repair and modifications. I'm sure I don't have much to offer in the way of tips and metal shaping skills, so I'll be doing a lot more listening than talking. Not fully retired, though I do get to stay home and play with cars all day; I have a shop built behind my house, and people from all over the US send me their BMW M Coupes & Rdstrs for me to work on. I also fabricate a reinforcement component for the car's Achilles Heel, a weak trunkfloor/differential mount, and ship them all over the world (they're on 6 of 7 continents, and if somebody can prove they have one of these cars in Antarctica, I'll send them their kit for free!). The blue one front and center, is mine (fitted with a Eurosport twinscrew supercharger), but the rest were only here for me to do work on, then they'll be shipped or driven back to their respective states. I also have a couple of the topless versions, '99 & '01 M Roadsters (the '99 is also about 450 bhp/supercharged) and I've had this old 1957 Austin-Healey for a little over thirty-seven (>37) years. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it
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Hi Randy welcome to the forum
Peter
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P.Tommasini Metalshaping tools and dvds www.handbuilt.net.au Metalshaping clip on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEAh91hodPg Making Monaro Quarter panel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIpOhz0uGRM |
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Hi Randy. I'm pretty much in the same mode as you - good place to learn. Some very talented metalshaping folk contributing here. The M Coupe with a blower must be be nice . All those revs and double the torque . I have a 1M, a 1977 633 and building a sort of tribute E21 Group 5 with a turbo 2.5 M50 and sequential.
Pretty Healey too...
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Richard "I know nothing. I from Barcelona" (Manuel - Fawlty Towers) Link to our racecar project https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elan-...ab=public&view Last edited by skintkarter; 05-24-2015 at 11:11 PM. Reason: forgot the Healey! |
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Thanks Peter & Richard, I appreciate the welcoming!
With a screen name like skintkarter, does that have any connection to these sorts of karts? This one is a 1961 era McCulloch R1 go-kart chassis & (originally designed for chainsaw) engines. When I can get the problematic carbs working right, it's pretty stimulating to drive! There's quite a following of vintage karts here in The States, and I will concede that this is my one true mid-life crisis! The most recent panel I shaped, was a cowl for the R1 above; these are most often referred to as a Nassau Panel (or simply number plate). I don't have it painted and fitted yet, but I'll try to get a completed picture of that soon. Just a simple little bench-top English wheel project.
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The McCulloch looks great! Would be just nasty with pipes!
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Richard "I know nothing. I from Barcelona" (Manuel - Fawlty Towers) Link to our racecar project https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elan-...ab=public&view |
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Welcome Randy. I drove one of those in about '62. It was in a parking lot and I hit a seam and went airborne for about 50'. Scared the crap out of me!
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