New guy
 

Hey guys,

My name is Bart. I've been a member over at allshops for a couple years, more as an observer than anything else, and I'm a HAMB member, which is how I found this site. I started working with metal in 2004, I have most of the basic hand tools, and I'm starting to work on getting some equipment together so I can start doing some bigger jobs. I worked in a restoration shop for 5 years doing a lot of metal work with very limited tools, now I'm ready to start working a little more smart and less hard.

I have a bad habit of not taking pics of my work, but here are a few from a couple years back.

before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...h/DSC00768.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...h/DSC00773.jpg
after
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...h/DSC00827.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...h/DSC00830.jpg
before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...h/DSC00693.jpg
after
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...h/DSC00702.jpg

Welcome aboard Bart
Cool project , keep posting ....:)

Welcome Bart. Healy?

Swallow Doretti. . . an odd one. If I remember right there were around 265 made. Aluminum front and rear fenders, aluminum hood over a steel frame, the main tub and doors were steel. All on a triumph chassis. . .

That's one I've never heard of. Got any photos of a complete car?

Bart, welcome and thanks for posting some of your old project. Looking forward to seeing some of your new projects. Many of us have a problem remembering to take pictures so don't feel alone.

Hello Bart and welcome to allmetalshaping from England. you have made a good job of the repairs to your car, keep up the good work!

David

New guy with pictures,I like your style.

Welcome aboard.

Welcome aboard, Bart! Thanks for the pics. We like pics :D Even if they aren't step by step pics :cool:

Tim D.

I don't have any of the whole car that I know of... that was a customer car at the resto shop I was working at. I made all the brakes over the edge of a steel work bench. Luckily, the door skins don't have any crown, so that was formed over a big chunk of scrap pipe, and I tipped the edges by hand with hammer and dollie. It all came out pretty decent. In hindsight, I wish I would have replaced more of the interior structure, but live and learn right?

Found this walk around of one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeC_B9K3RrA