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Real nice looking Pro!!! You could whoop one of those out for me any day you think you need the practice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pro,
In one of your very early posts you mentioned using a SHOPBOT to do all of your cnc stuff. Is that still what you are using?
John

Thanks Dave. I'll put you on that loooong list I have laying around here someplace.

John, Yup, it's a Shopbot. Not the best set-up for this type of work, but it DOES work, albeit a little slow.

Well, got started on the front fenders for Tom's Coupe, they were a mess!!! Lots of wounds over the years and the driver's side front had a twist in it that necessitated cutting the seam apart, untwisting, dingin' and shrinking a bunch, then welding it back together. I built a fixture to hold the fenders so that I can see which one and how much "moving" they need to look symmetrical on the car....

Just as I started making good progress on them, my compressor took a dump...But that's another thread.... Anyway, hope to be back in the groove and finishing up all four fenders next week... Here's a couple pics for you Tom!!!!! (Betcha you thought I'd died ur sumpin')

Hey Pro, the shot with the toes and the pedal is way kewl!!!!! Great work on the clevis, gonna be trick stuff everywhere!!!!! Wanna buy my trailer? It's going to be waaaaay too nice to take out on the street and let some schmuck T-bone it while he's got the cell phone in one hand and barley pop in the other!!!!!!

Thanks Richard. I'm having a ball making this stuff.

Got those fenders comin' around purdy good Dave. You'll have 'em lookin' good as new, I have no doubt.
I might have to consider the trailer deal .

Bearing hub.

Got it installed. IT WORKS. Welded just enough to keep it in place. I'll finish the weldin' when it's back on the rotisserie. I'm gettin' too old for that out of position stuff.

* Finish the steering next.

Looks great Pro!!!! Sure does get me anxious to get all the current stuff done and get back on the Ranchero---and hopefully another complete that is pending......

"a pending complete"?
Sounds way too politically correct for me Dave.

This has nothing to do with you Dave, I just think everybody should see it.

"POLITICAL CORRECTNESS"
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Originally Posted by techinspector1

"a pending complete"?
Sounds way too politically correct for me Dave.

This has nothing to do with you Dave, I just think everybody should see it.

"POLITICAL CORRECTNESS"
A doctrine fostered by a dilusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

2007 winning entry
Texas A&M contemporary term contest

My name and politically correct used in the same sentence!!!!!! Now that's a first!!!!

A complete pending means the dude wants to build a drag car, but he ain't quite figured out a way to slide the $$$$ to me without his old lady finding out!!!!!!!

Spent the day with my crew today.

Use a Sharpie to flame his noggin Gary, his mom will love it

I knew it!!!! Just like the rest of us, you've already made 50 passes in the new car!!!!!!!!!

I set the front end on today for a look see. Looks like I've got some work ahead of me.......don't fit so good LOL

I think I better build the firewall first so I've got somethin' solid to work with

Oh well, nothing new there, huh???? Once I had some fiberglass parts that actually fit without alterations.... and it was a really good dream!!!!!!!!!!