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violentblue - 25/11/04 at 07:49 PM

heres some pics of some 1 off bodywork

a buddy went to a metalmeet 04 (big hobby metalworking convention) where he saw this





Staple balls - 25/11/04 at 08:22 PM

That's very impressive and gives me bad ideas

paulbeyer - 25/11/04 at 11:25 PM

Oh look yet another Cobra inspired design. Yawn.

kb58 - 26/11/04 at 02:08 AM

Yawn? Making anything that large by hand out of steel or aluminum deserves a lot of respect and admiration.

Tralfaz - 26/11/04 at 03:38 AM

quote:
Originally posted by kb58
Yawn? Making anything that large by hand out of steel or aluminum deserves a lot of respect and admiration.


Agreed.

RallyHarry - 26/11/04 at 10:05 AM

Cobra replica ?

- Are you nuts, it's a Ferrari 250 clone !

Link to a picture of Ferrari 250 front

sgraber - 26/11/04 at 04:15 PM

The amount of work and skill required to make a body like that out of metal simply by beating panels is mind boggling.

Projects like that make me very humble.

(however.... and I am just saying this to possibly explain the "ho-hum" comment above.... too bad it's not an original design, or at least a new interpretation of an old design. I think there becomes a difference between craftsman and artist...) </devil's advocate off>

Graber

violentblue - 26/11/04 at 05:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by RallyHarry
Cobra replica ?

- Are you nuts, it's a Ferrari 250 clone !

Link to a picture of Ferrari 250 front


I believe thats what it is, the guy couldn't afford a ferrari so he's building one. definatly not a cobra.

now that my buddy knows how to do this level of metal work, the two of us might attempt something a little simpler than this, probably a hotrod of some variety.

Peteff - 26/11/04 at 06:14 PM

I watched a documentary the other year about a tribe of bushmen. They were making barbed arrow tips out of fence wire by beating them against a rock with another rock. They did have a file, the only one in the village, to finish them off with. I had to have a go didn't I. It took me bl**dy ages even with real tools and a piece of rsj to beat them on. They have my utmost respect for their achievements even if it does look like a Cobra to some.

Rorty - 27/11/04 at 04:26 AM

A person with an artistic bent can create any number of artifacts and shapes that look apealing to the eye, and claim the results are as desired/predicted.
However, it takes someone with true expertise to studiously make an exact likeness of someone else's work. (Speaking from experience.)

For a short-term, temporary exhibition, in a bloody tent, and working on uneven grass-covered ground, that's nothing short of superb work, whatever the model of banger it is!

Rorty - 30/11/04 at 10:52 PM

In a similar vein: Aston Martin DRR1

And a miniature version: Kiddy Car.

sgraber - 30/11/04 at 11:07 PM

Wow! Wow, WAOW

1/2 scale Aston? 10,000 Pounds? crap!

Now I feel like such an feckin amateur.

violentblue - 1/12/04 at 07:23 PM

that aston is amazing, too bad its only 1/2 scale,

Aloupol - 1/12/04 at 11:06 PM

quote:
Originally posted by RallyHarry
Cobra replica ?

- Are you nuts, it's a Ferrari 250 clone !

Link to a picture of Ferrari 250 front


One says that all modern cars look alike each other, seems it's also true for legends

Fantastic job anyway.

[Edited on 1/12/04 by Aloupol]

violentblue - 2/12/04 at 03:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Aloupol
One says that all modern cars look alike each other, seems it's also true for legends

Fantastic job anyway.


thats like saying all women look alike because they all have similar curves.

Aloupol - 2/12/04 at 07:10 PM

quote:

thats like saying all women look alike because they all have similar curves.


Of course they don't

Volvorsport - 9/12/04 at 07:13 PM

i hope they tigged it together , gas welded ally , distorts like buggery .

Rorty - 9/12/04 at 09:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Volvorsport
i hope they tigged it together , gas welded ally , distorts like buggery .

Gas welding ally panels and bodies was the only method of constructing them for years.
A classic/vintage car restorer I worked with in Somerset regularly built ally bodied cars using all the old school methods. I saw him make one-piece ally front wings for an aluminium bodied Healy 3000 hill climber, and the original steel ones were made in two pieces because of the difficulty of the deep compound curves.
He would quite hapily weld aluminium bodies and then heat and shring them to the final shape.
When he was finished, he would just give the aluminium bodywork a wipe over with some emery cloth and then spray on some paint. All his work was faultless.