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Old 02-19-2019, 10:37 AM
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Default Redneck Roundup Clamshell louvers live on

Finally got a chance to put in some Redneck Roundup clamshell louvers with the tooling from Will. A couple of hood sides for a 37 Ford showed up yesterday. The owner wanted to remove the side "grille", and add a tapered recess pan with clamshell louvers. Here's what we started with...







Some cutoff wheel action later....







In an attempt to keep as much metal on the ends as possible, we opted to flatten the sad remains of the horizontal fins. This involved some shrinking via the heating tip in the dent puller..












Looks like someone has spilled bondo all over this panel. Funny the inside didn't look all that mangled to warrant the amount we found.. Must be a TV car..


The shrinking efforts flattened out the ends fairly well...












I filled in the previous trim holes with 18 Ga plugs and TIG fusion while the owner worked away at removing the bondo so we could see what we had to work with...



















Next, we had to fold a flange in the front and extend the factory bead around the opening down the front where we had flattened the panel. Some of the existing bead profiles had seen better days in the past 80 plus years, so I checked a set of joggle dies I had made for drip rail as it looked close...











New flange folded at the front, bead added using the Lennox, original beads touched up ...















Tapered pan fabricated.....







Louver layout











Welded in place..







He is having some art deco style trim pieces made to accent the louvers down the center, topped by 62 Impala fender trim. We didn't have those, so here it is with alternate SS fuel line for your viewing pleasure...











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Old 02-19-2019, 12:44 PM
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Very nice Robert. The design is outstanding.
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Old 02-19-2019, 02:35 PM
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Very cool. That came out well. Thanks for posting, Robert.
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I like the raised edge going completely around the opening and I understand the reversed louvers but aren’t the clamshells facing the wrong way to let the heat out I guess the owner could always louver the hood but then you can’t open the windshield anymore so I wouldn’t recommend it as being all that practical. ~ John Buchtenkirch

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Nice improvement and good work. can i ask if you have any pics of tool used for putting louvers in?
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Very nicely done Robert!
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Looks good Robert.
Hopefully he has good cooling and the extra pressure introduced wont affect it.
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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, 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..

http://allmetalshaping.com/showpost....8&postcount=71
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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..

http://allmetalshaping.com/showpost....8&postcount=71
Robert.... nice job on the bonnet louvers

After watching Will tread about the tooling and how the louvers where done on the speedster, I can see the similarity of the tooling and the procedure used to put the louvers on the Ferrari GTO quarters and some other models in the 50's and 60's.
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Very cool Robert! Lot's of great tips in there and love the reference to it being a TV car. I do watch the odd TV car show and cringe every time they say 'Its ready for the bodyshop now'
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