Chef's LV thread

[tornadoalleycruiser]

I belive Mogwin is the new owner of Orange.. you gotta get your usernames right bro!

Back to work on yer 45 bucko! I wanna start bodywork in July..

 

[Ground Up]

Contour tool to measure the curve upper and lower...

Allan-

What is the brand and where can someone get the "contour tool"?


Thanks,

Marc

 

[Chef]

Again with the lame no pics yet on my part.
Spent the last 4 days replacing the front of the roof at the corners above the a pillars, replacing all the sheet metal over all 4 doors...basically everything from the a pillars on back to the c pillars where it meets the roof, and sections of the roof.
Stupid moisture retaining headliner foam.

 

[89s rule]

Wow way to bring this back!! Get those pics up!! Love me some lv build-up threads!

 

[Mikesta]

Wow way to bring this back!! Get those pics up!! Love me some lv build-up threads!

Here here! Floors look nice man... good job!

 

[fjwagon]

9 clamps to hold down the side panel. You can never have enough clamps as the saying goes

 

[Chef]

ASmentioned previously, bad roof to body interface. Over all four doors is rotten, a pillars, rotten, etc. Here's what one upper door sill looked like...old upper in the foreground, repair in progress in the backround...

 

[Chef]

some roof repiars in progress

 

[Chef]

some a pillar fab...

 

[Chef]

Passenger side roof repair...

 

[Chef]

High speed panel beating
These roof section would take 90 minutes + on an english wheel, they took about 15 minutes this way!

 

[Chef]

Last bit of floor repair, for now. The V8 swap puehd the vauum pod for the thranser back. The PO really hacked the floor and tunnel to make that work. Here's the fixed section, added onto my already repaired front floors.

That's probably it for a while, I still have a lot of metal to burn in. I spent a lot of time digging/blowing out and cursing roof liner foam, and shooting the areas I'm repairing full of rust mort and weld thru coating.

 

[Mikesta]

Chef that is some amazing roof work! How much does a tool like that cost? I rate the roof as the hardest part to work on with all the curves... I cant even draw it straight let alone imagine fabbing all the edges for it. Thanks for the pictures!

 

[Chef]

About $12,000 + the dies, which are about another kerbillion$ per pair. Not my shop or my tools...From a body restoration point of view, the tool is well worth the money when you can knock hours and hours off fab time.

 

[Lito]

Holy metal forming, batman. Those pieces look great. NIce job.

 

[AZkick-n40]

I vote for Chef and Buck to give a metal working demonstration!

Excellent work Chef!

 

[Chef]

I am nowhere near as good as Buck. I'm very lucky to have a top flite resto guy who thinks me and my projects are interesting. He lets me help fab, some, grind and weld a lot. Sweep a lot. I'm learning quite a bit, probably none of which I could ever replicate...especially without his help and shop.

 

[buckroseau]

Dude, you got some nasty roof rot on the drip edge going there......I think that is/was rotted worse than mine

But.....those pieces you made with that power hammer.....that is some extremely nice work, that is one tool I would love to have!! Excellent work

Matt

 

[Chef]

Yessir, as I said, the roof to truck interface was pretty well fawked.
It was scary cutting it all apart, but I left the outer edge of the driprail as reference as I went.
Again, the power hammer ain't mine, but it is sho-nuff kewlashell.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Damn Jesse James, thats some fine panel beatin............


Once spent 10 hrs on 60 series quarters, threw out the panels and 4 hrs later had good panels all by dolly and hammer.

Looking real good, must of missed this post?