65 Porsche w C5 Drive

[Garage Dog 65]

Thanks for the kind words and guidance Anthony ! I plan to put in all the roll bar reinforcements while I'm doing the body so I can put the cage in. I'd like to do both interriors - 1 stock and 1 GT Porsche style with some type of racing seats. Guess it's about time to make that choice...

You're right about aviation and your dad. It's one thing to work on a car, drive it and then pull over when you forgot to tighten or fill something. Try custom building an aircraft - then strap yourself (or paying passengers or your family) into it and tool around a 10,000 feet. You only get a couple power-off dead-stick landings in a corn field before your luck will run out. It's one of the few things left in our industry we're still very proud of ! Thank your Dad for his guidance too - sounds like it may have rubbed off on you - and thats a good thing !

I spent the morning building a template pattern of the roof before I cut into it. There is no structure to these - it's actually just a stamped piece of metal with formed edges F and R - with a U channel at the windshield surround and door drip channel. My concern was that when I cut into that - it would attempt to return to it's previous flat state - so I built patterns to make a wooden support buck for later.

For the process - see Ron Fornier's site and checkout the Making Patterns and Bucks tape. Basic old school coachbuilding and race car stuff. (If you know Ron's history - he's one of those behind the scene hero guys !)

Grided off the top. Made paper templates to those grids. Then you can transfer that to plywood or MDF - and put it all back together and you have the original profile of the structure. Did the same for the Nose and the Tail.

Anyway, thought the new guys might find it interesting.

I know, Go Cut That Thing ....