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Old 07-20-2020, 12:46 PM   #87 (permalink)
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Compound curve will be accomplished via english wheel and planishing hammer. Note detailed sheet metal work is relatively new ground for me, I am not a bodywork expert, but with enough time and bondo anything is possible.
Sounds great. Good clean compound curves, with smoothed welds and polished metal, are an amazing thing of beauty. I hope you'll share progress on that work. Will be fun to observe.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
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