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The best advice I can give is to either try to locate old original (black in color) rocker molding clips and use those. The new parts just dont work. What you can do is either use new clips to donat ...

Along with me, two of the guys who work here are also live in West Hartford, definintely stop in to say hello, the shop is only 20 mins from WH!

post step nose...(when its done, this car is a GIGANTIC amount of work) but its pretty low...

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I lurk a lot on metal meet, obviously even though the canvas on which a lot of the work is done is different, the techniques for metal shaping are the same!

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Yeah that has to be Peter! We finished the full body and mechanical restoration on that car about three weeks ago, he's one of the rare ones who wants a car restored to the nines so he can USE THE HEL ...

Thanks for the compliments, but dont underestimate the value of just getting some tin and some basic tools and doing some work. I had a fairly good teacher on this stuff, but most of what I learned ...

Here is a shot of grinding the mig weld at the front of the framerail...I attacked it straight in, but not cutting into the framerail flange. Keep the tool at somewhat of an angle to keep a good cont ...

allright here is a shot of the framerail and floor being separated. The welds that hold the rail to the floor (or vice versa) have been ground almost all the way through, then chiseled very lightly t ...

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Then imagine using the stick to drive the metal down into the form...

Hey Tommy I thought I took pictures of the pan when I was driving the ribs into it-I will take and post some when I do the other side.

Basically, what I do is to clamp down the pan over a couple 1 ...

Figured some of you metalheads wondering what to do with the rust could use this information, look at it as "experience and patience, not expensive tools" determine what you can accomplish:

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also you can get them thru the local dealer, or of course blunt here on this forum. Quality and fit and finish is excellent.

This evolutionary concept is exactly what we were saying once we had the subframe modded enough to bolt in-not to say it was not a lot of work, but it was amazing how much things just worked out.
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Yup its not that hard but you need to be able to fabricate and not be afraid.

It actually fits rather well-what we did with Andy's wagon was to cut and modify the e30 subframe to fit the car-not m ...

Nick a 70 should have an inner fender like this:

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Its a combo between the earlier style with no lateral stamping but still has t ...

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from left to right, nigel, me, justin, jim, nate and nate, all except nate number two will be there...room's booked, just need to b ...

Dave here is a tip if you are hesitant about removing the doors and being able to get them aligned correctly again. And BTW to get good proper and good looking paint coverage on all surfaces, I recom ...

I had a 74 tii in the shop a few years ago that had the same symptoms. After some serious time trying to figure it out, via checking the warmup regulator, etc, it turned out that the "zeitschalter"-t ...

CD that is my old tii...it was just languishing in back of the shop so Nigel and I worked out a deal...

Hey post some of your motorcycle racing shots for NIgel, he loves that stuff and I cannot fin ...

CD you are a true renaissance man and a great asset to the board for bringing in a great perspective both historically and marque-wise. SO much of what is done with cars is applicable across marques ...

also those top floorpans look coup-ish to me! and the one midway down looks like a touring but Bill would know better!

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You can see the paint for the subframe we had made. It matches the paint on my turbo

Hope to have it in the pai ...

Havent really planned a route yet, Bill, do is one better than the other?

We have 5 guys from up here going! Just booked our rooms!

Hey CD those braces under the turbo were a sort of an interim stiffening done on all 73 cars-euro and US hence their presence on the turbo shell. THe euro cars of squarie variety also have the basic ...

its of a car at the shop its a factory sunroof car...hope it helps, hows the transplant?

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I think you could ...

Thanks for the nice comments all, this is like a dream project for us!

Just as some more info, those 15 inch Panasports are just for fitting-we had them here with a 205 on it-visually, given the ...

John our prayers from CT go out to you. Glad you are okay-

Wife has been milking this, "Its almost here, I can feel it, keep your phone on/stay home/do things around the house/stay out of the shop...." thing for almost two weeks!!!

Should be soon though... ...

Nice work, and a great idea to boot!

We did something similar on a six series we did years ago-this car had custom side skirts and had a front airdam that was too low you could not get it onto a ...