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Old 10-27-2012, 11:55 PM   #17 (permalink)
HydroJim
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I've been thinking about the front end of the car some more. I would like to make it a blunt front end like the aero template, but finding a piece of tempered glass in the right shape is proving the be quite the challenge. Plus, a wedge shape front end is better looking, so I'm going to use a little inspiration from dave cloud's cars.

I'm going to use the passenger compartment from one of my donor metros and chop the top like this:

I'll lose window functionality, but maybe I'll figure something out to get a functional window so I can breath during those hot summer days.

I may also switch the doors to being hinged at the top instead of the front.

This does 2 things:
1. gull wing doors are cool.
2. this allows me to not worry about interference from my body work.

Basically, this shows what my body work is going to look like around the front wheels:


It makes it much easier to make front wheel skirts that can cover the whole wheel all the way down and not stick out like a giant bubble.
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