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Originally Posted by RichB

More great fab pics, keep them coming!

Thank's for the reply on the tires, those are available at Cokers? I'm
running 205 65 R15 Michilin's on the front (25 1/2" tall). I went with
these for the xtra engine weight I'm running, but really like the look
of the smaller tire (24 1/2" tall).

I wonder how many times Iv'e bought multiples of the same item till
I got it right! LOL

Take care, Rich

Yes Rich i believe they are. We had to wait for months to get them because they only make a run of so many. I just put my name in with a friend in So. Calif. and we ordered two sets and just waited... hope you have better luck getting them faster than we did..

I used 195 65 15 vr rated tires on the front of Robins 33 for the speed rating and braking -----I thought that the narrower tires got scarry for hard braking------------------

And now I got a couple ideas for a few of those 20 engine stands around here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Parkwood I have to say like earlier said , you have done some very fantastic work on this build


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Originally Posted by bluestang67

Parkwood I have to say like earlier said , you have done some very fantastic work on this build


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Thanks alot bluestang

At this point it was time to take it all a part and get ready for paint. I was able to use the lift to remove the body and put it on they stand i have for body's. it makes it so easy to spin and work on the bottom..

Once the body was upside down i was able to fill in the lower edge that wasn't quite finished off.. I fill the void first with thin wall elec. conduit and bonded that in with corvette panel bond. Once that set up i glassed over it all and smoothed it out and shot some primer on it.. Made the edge much stronger..

I bought a portable garage from California Car Cover and made a paint booth in my garage. wired up some lights and cut in some filters to drawn in some good air..

Got the body in the booth and painted the bottom, once it was painted and color sanded and rubbed out i covered it so as not to get over spray on the bottom while the top was getting painted.

After the bottom was painted i started on all the small parts laying around..

Getting the frame ready for paint, i cut in a c-notch for the front spring.

Frame got some paint on it..

Looks like Phil is heavily influenced by Hrones. If you're going to be inspired by someone, emulate the best! He did a nice job.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Looks like Phil is heavily influenced by Hrones. If you're going to be inspired by someone, emulate the best! He did a nice job.

Yes Bob he did as always.. now i have to take it to him in Jan before the GNRS so he can do the rest...

Love all of what you've done,very class!

Just for a tip; you can see many of Jack's (or anyone else's for that matter) postings by using the "advanced search" feature in the upper right corner of this page. For instance, I typed in "Gibbon" for subject, and "Henry Rifle" for member name and got back a long list of posts that Jack has done mentioning Gibbon. In the past 10 years it's been bounced around a LOT, and on many of those re: Gibbon I was right there with him, albeit to a lesser degree. Unfortunately when the site owner changed software formats a few years ago we lost just about all the photo attachments that were great history. Hopefully Jack will post up some fresh ones, or repeats, as he did a very nice job overcoming the difficulties sent his way.