This is the only pic I could up load because they are high res, but you can see more pics of the finished car at our web site.

 

I have all the pics of the build, its an all aluminum body ( all done by hand). And if you have a million dollars we can build you one also!!!! Anyone?

 

I am very supprised there are no coments!!! I guess if it were a header or manifold there would be coments. But complex things like this are uninteresting. I you click on my link you will see the finished car as well as some build photos. It was all flame welded and used less than two small bottles of icing on the entire car. All metal fnished for the minimal use of filler.

 

looks good

 

Is the entire wire frame now apart of the chassis or does it come off? Whats the total amount of time to complete a project like that?

I just got done looking @ the website...wow. If I were to work in the automotive field, that be the area I'd want. New challenges and a mature clientele.

 

No the wire form is just to set the guide lines for the body than all the panels are made to completion and the wire form is removed and then the entire body is planished by hand. We did the car in a year from pictures to actual delivery. And we worked alot of OT 31,000 in just OT last year.

 

jesus could that pic get any bigger?

looks good though, damn that would take forever. keep us updated!

 

I think there would be more comments if I could actually see what the hell is going on...lol. Resize the pic dude.

 

how do you go about making body panels from the wire frame? do you simply put a backing on the frame and fill in the gaps then sand it to shape?

 

looks crazy

 

yeah, pic definitely needs to be resized or taken out of the op.

this is the kinda stuff seen on metal meet forum. insane amount of work. do you then have a wood forming buck to match the metal wireframe?

 

Looks like it's influenced by a Cobra....pretty nice. Any further photo's during the skinning process and finish?

 

Wow, neat car! Why wire form over wood forms? It seems like a wire form would be much more difficult but I've never done anything like this.

 

That is correct you prob seen it on metal meet, one of the guys from work is on there (Captain). No the panels are english wheeled, shrunk, stretched ect to take the shape of the wire form. And no in no way does it resemble an ac cobra, although we do have the one and only AC ma200 which was the car they were going to build until Carrol Shelby came to them. They only built one prototype and then built the cobras. This car the special is modeled after the ferrari tr-60 which the guy we built the car for was going to buy one of the only two of them in the world but he couldn't imagine spending 12,000,000 on a car and not want to drive it because of it value.

 

If you click on my daily grind and go to gallery you can see some all of them from start to finish that I have are to big and I can't resize them.

 

Any pics of what its going to look like done.

Alot of welding and fab there

 

i appreciate the amount of work that goes into this because we do this kind of work in smalle scales, i would love to comment more but just reading posts is a pita

 

i wish i got paid to do that stuff.. id quit my job in a heart beat

 

with there being only two cars in the world like it. how did you make sure you got all the shaping done correctly? I can't imagine you found specs for this car anywhere. Did you guys just get all the photos you could and get as close as you could or what?

 

awesome shop, awesome work!

 

Its not the exact same we did some thing different, but all the designing was just from photos or the original tr-60.