Thanks for the welcome. Here's some pics of the previous projects. Most of this work is 10 - 12 years old so no digital cameras - and no internet forums for advice. Most of the metal shaping on the first project was done without any knowledge of stretching and shrinking and cerainly no special tools. Hammers, wooden formers and a pretty crude louvre cutter which used the weight of two concrete blocks to function were all I had. The project was to build a body on a cut down prewar Riley chassis and mount a 2.5 litre engine in it.
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This is a more recent picture when I did som more work on the screen.
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This is two years ago - the car is 11 years old now.
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The second project was to make a pickup truck from a 1952 Riley saloon which was heading for the breakers. I developed a sort of 'buck on the car' technique. This time I had access to a wheeling machine but bidn't know how to use it properly.
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Most of my work in last few years has been restoration of prewar Rileys but I'm keen to get back to building Specials and learning much more about how to work sheet metal.
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