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Old 02-20-2019, 06:13 PM
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I love it when loovers come out even, clean, right side up, correct edge forward, and in straight lines.
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Beautiful work Kent!


Well the owner sent me a "concept photo" complete with cardboard cutout... The piece of cardboard against the hood side will be chrome plated, the next will be a contrasting color to the car, and topped off with the Impala fender trim..






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Old 02-21-2019, 12:59 PM
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Beautiful work Kent!


Well the owner sent me a "concept photo" complete with cardboard cutout... The piece of cardboard against the hood side will be chrome plated, the next will be a contrasting color to the car, and topped off with the Impala fender trim..




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Quite the "artsy hoode" expression, by contrast to '37 original hood sides, above. ....
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Old 02-21-2019, 01:37 PM
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Kent,
You have an amazing collection and array of photos.
Always look forward to your posts and reply's to others.
Thanks for your expertise and great photos.
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Old 02-21-2019, 04:03 PM
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Carl, I picked up the tooling from Will at his last year's Redneck Roundup. I don't have pictures, but here's the basis from where the louvers were cut into his Aluminum Speedster..

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Old 02-25-2019, 07:59 AM
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Hood side number two completed yesterday. The flanges of the tapered pan get some stretch treatment in the kick Erco to match the profile of the hood side..





For the questions about the cutting device, it is a long nose pneumatic cut off tool from Blue Point. For keeping the cut nice and perpendicular, and disc width, the long nose works better (for me anyhow) by having the long nose as a visual guide to keep it parallel to our centerline. I don't think I would have seen as good of results using the standard cut off tool.








Each slot has stop drill holes at the end, to help remove any cracking issue and also to better determine end of cut.








E helped out with the punching efforts...…








Panel gets tacked in and welded with the TIG...








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Nice improvement and good work. can i ask if you have any pics of tool used for putting louvers in?
Carl, got some pictures for you:










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Old 03-31-2019, 08:54 PM
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Here's another sample of louvers just completed, these are rotated 15 degrees..









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Old 04-01-2019, 03:46 PM
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They look really good – quite art deco-esque.
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