you can hit the cones but avoid the metal things.

Ok, since the professionals have been doing the majority of the work getting the front end of my Camaro painted, I broke out the filler and body worked the hood and engine compartment on the little fastback. I thought I would fill a few holes, hammer out some dents and and it would be ready for primer. WRONG. I sanded and sanded and Jesus, BOS's painter had to clean up after me. I was going for a factory look, nothing overtly custom, and I think we pulled that off.

It might not look like much without and engine, but it was a ton of work.
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Matt I'm tired just looking at it! :D

So what you have learned is that this car building thing is hard work.

I knew it was hard work. I always thought things took twice as long as you thought they were going to take, but then if I realized that applies to skilled and experienced people, and if I added my hours up I realized most things take me four times as long as I thought. :rofl:

Yep, bodywork takes friggin forever. My family put me on suicide watch while I was doing mine on my car. Never again! :lol: Congrats on the continued progress Matt.

It looks nice Matt, atleast you can say you did it.

I'm lucky i have someone to clean up after me, because getting it perfect would probably kill me. I don't know how you did with little to no background. By the way Chris, how is the car running I want to check it out and hear it sometime!

Not too shabby for a Camaro guy.

Hey guys, I have pictures to post, and they're not old recycled ones like Rob has, they're new ones, and they aren't of hubs with yellow lug nuts or aluminum blocks with iron heads either. :lol:

After doing all of the body work on the engine compartment I started mocking everything up so that I could start fabricating some bracing/tubing that will be used to attach stuff to. Part of the idea behind the car has been to draw on some of the cool original design elements of the early Mustangs and Shelbys and change and or update them without creating a contemporary looking custom build that feels "new." I hope that makes some sense. In keeping with that theme I wanted to add engine bay bracing that was reminiscent of the old shock tower - to - firewall and "monte carlo" bars that the original cars had. And yes, before anyone says it, I clearly sacrificed some function with that huge bend in the monte carlo bar, but the air for the engine has to come from somewhere.

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After building all of the bracing I was hoping to move away from more little body and fab projects, it is really easy to come up with simple little ideas that turn into small but time consuming projects.

One of the projects at BOS right now is a twin turbo 67 Mustang that arrived with the typical Eleanor body kit. It has been undergoing a transformation of sorts, and one of my ideas was to get rid of the quarter window scoops and replace them with fuel and oil fillers since the car is running a dry sump in the back and a 35 gallon fuel cell that is so tall it can only be fed from the sail panel. The owner wanted to retain the original Shelby quarter scoops though, so I started playing around with the idea on my car.

Here is what unfolded. The initial version was the most simplistic and was a straight recessed panel, but that left too much empty space that needed to be filled with something. Since I've always one of the more iconic features on the fastback were its louvers I decided to try and add some. After playing with spacing, and the inclusion of the racing style filler that appeared on the Cobra, this is what I ended up with.
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I still wasn't quite happy with it though because the filler still looked tacked on so I decided to recess it with notches around the hinges so it looked more like it belonged.
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Now to figure out how to make a little stainless trim ring that matches with drip rail moldings...