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bill m 07-14-2019 01:32 AM

1944 Ford GPW
 
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Hello all,
I thought I would share some of my scratchings on a long term project I have been working on and honing my restoration skills.It is mostly flat steel so no difficult metal shaping here! A Cigweld 135 Turbo mig and some sykes hammers and dollies plus general workshop hammers gets things done. Loads of inspiration here to get a professional finish so I ma grateful for those sharing their projects
cheers
Bill

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Gojeep 07-14-2019 04:11 AM

Doing a great job there Bill. Good to see another Willys on here and local too!

bill m 07-14-2019 04:51 AM

Thank you Marcus.

Brzeczyszczykiewicz 07-14-2019 06:55 AM

I'm sorry that I'm putting in my 3 cents.

There are no welds here.
https://imgur.com/iF2e3At.jpg

Jack 1957 07-14-2019 12:04 PM

Good to see a new project, Bill. Nice work so far.

cliffrod 07-14-2019 02:08 PM

Agreed. Very cool.

bill m 07-14-2019 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brzeczyszczykiewicz (Post 156984)
I'm sorry that I'm putting in my 3 cents.

There are no welds here.
https://imgur.com/iF2e3At.jpg


Those welds are done on the inside of the join at each end. The seam on the inside stops short at approximately 50mm permitting the weld to performed. This was the way the factory American Central Manufacturing (the subcontractor) did it originally and on every body produced by Ford and ACM during WWII. I still have some metal finishing off to do but that is how it was.

Regards
Bill

Antoine_P 07-15-2019 03:15 AM

Well done Bill, really great finish on these saved parts:cool:

Cheers

Antoine

bill m 07-15-2019 04:47 PM

Thank you Antoine.


Regards


Bill

bill m 07-17-2020 05:54 AM

I have been busy making the rear wheel well panels out of fresh steel as the originals were badly rusted. I used the originals as a template. A little metal shaping as well.



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