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Originally Posted by Tdskip
Some more details, with the section in yellow being one of my key challenges. Need to figure out how to form that in a U-shape.
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Fun project.
Antoine and his Karmann project would be very instructive, as the vintage, type of const. and process to duplicate and repair = harmonious.
Channel shapes in arches, curves around trunk openings, and around engine compartments are best done as two shaped angles, scribed, trimmed, clamped, and butt welded. I've also made press dies and shaped the U channels that way but only for polished stainless. (BTW, I think your bumper faces are stainless ...)
Alloy bodies of these are "Quattrofoglio" and I've only seen a couple.
Best to mock up that missing trunk floor with poster board and thin cheap flashing metal that you can snip, fold, bend, beadform and pop rivet to get a real good stiff working floor pattern to work with, so you can add the sides and misc. details onto.