So with that comes more motivation for panel forming!
Hood time! First thing will be to make the hood frame out of 1.5" 16ga round tube like the original. No pipe bender? No problem! I used my press for the more gentle bends which worked surprisingly well.
Now that the frame is done I can cut the skin to fit. The frame is 1.5" inset from the edge of the skin since I need to weld a 1" flat bar stock (1/8th inch thickness) around the edge for rigidity which the extra 1/2" of skin will fold over onto. Does that make any sense?
Doesn't to me either.
So that's coming up next. But big news is the car now steers! The linkage is hooked up and its functional! Woohoo!
Lastly, I scored an original used valve cover and amazingly (just like I had thought) it is the same size as the 215s cover! I'll be making this work somehow and will hopefully find another or make a duplicate.
More to come...
Cheers
Dave