What are you working on?

[restoman]

I'm not sure on the hours involved but I bet it was more than a few. As for gauge. Its the same as the rest of the body panels, Whatever that is

Dan really does do nice metal fab work. He is the guy who repaired the damage to the fender in the 1928 Oakland. He also painted it. I'm looking forward to posting the pictures of the repaired panels for this car. He said I'll have them back in January.

It's some very nice work, for sure. Not a lot of people can do that quality of metal work.
Does he do this at work or is he self-employed?

The metal gauge should be somewhere around 19 gauge...

 

[Stretch]

He has a restoration shop.

This is a link to his business.
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/kemp/rods.html

 

[Dr.Jass]

You referring to Kemp as "my metal fab guy" is pretty fuckin' funny.

 

[Stretch]

LOL true enough I guess that should read. The guy Mark took his parts to.

 

[Stretch]

I got the body panels back so I can get back to work.

 

[69.5CUDA]

DAMN those are purdy

i dont think ive EVER seen a shop with the steel skin on the INSIDE before....bet thats an echobox from hell

heres what ive been up to

cleaned the shop..as best as posible...and had room for once..and time to work on MY OWN SHIT...so i tossed my ole xl600r on my lift for a dash retrofit....when i got the bike it had no spedo or even provisions(tho it came from the factory with such)...i ran a digital for a while...yarded it and put it on my wifes 400ex quad....and have had a yamaha speedo..on a honda...ugh......anyway a friend on another board sent me a pile of speedo parts..as a free present lol....the speedo i ended up with after a massive kibash is a EURO KPH only unit converted to MPH with a custom "clone" face...the "mounts" wouldnt fit with my fairing..which is a "era correct" enduro unit...so i went to town making a mount out of stainless

 

[69.5CUDA]

then as a late xmas present i SCORED something ive wanted for ages....a baja/africa/dakar rally headlight...these things are VERY hard to come by..and they are "universal" and not for a specific brand/make....i got busy fitting it...cleaning it up and a quick rattlecan job on it till i can repaint the ENTIRE bike come summer

course this ment making mounts for it from scratch..moving the turn signals again and mounts from scratch..making a bunch of little stuff....then of course i found i had more room on the speedo so i could re-mount it on the oem mount..sorta..with some tweaking(better cushioning) which also ment new switch mounts, re-doing the forward wiring harness again.....in the end i ended up with AMAZING light aimed down the road instead of at the fender..and the LOOK that ive always wanted

then spent 4 days doing test n tunes..tweking every carb jet, needle, seat, etc possible and got it neer dialed in.....and yesterday i made a phone mount....which i detest the idea..but me and my wife have been maping my old trails trying to get to a place i havnt been since the early 80s..and with washed out roads, trails and gates..roads that dont exist trails long since gone...it means gps maping everything till you find a working path

 

[69.5CUDA]

oh yeah..and im knocking this bastard out this week

rockers 4 layers deep on all 4 corners, entire front lowwer window lip, both fender cowl corner and up the piller, entire trunk drop rail, all extra holes filled, trunk re-mapped braced and setup for fuelcell and battery, both rear window sills inner and outter and part way down the body, tail light delete due to unobtainium, entire driver floor, parts of passenger floor, new seat mounts made, frame connection side to side for under rear of seats, entire innercowl rework, roof damage repaired, gas cap delete, door rott repaired, multiple mirror mount hole repair, door sills both sides, .....im sure ive missed some...but..the light at the end of the tunner is within this week.....then...it goes away..ill get it back for bodywork in the summer/fall

 

[Not A Duster]

I'm working on repairs of customer's equipment right now. A much - needed cash flow injection.

As much as I said I wasn't going to do it anymore, I'm going to have to spend some time underneath our service/install van.

 

[69.5CUDA]

im currently juggling who will get shop time next...likely a botched crate swap by a reputable shop....on a chevy truck with a 350.....they couldnt find the right motor mounts or dipstick....or figureout the painless wireing kit.......

then..it sounds like it will be a 64 valiant vert

 

[restoman]

Stretch, those are some nice repairs!
Got any more pis?

 

[Stretch]

I do not. The parts were delivered in primer. I plan to take some when I get back to work on it next week.

 

[Stretch]

I have been working on a few things. Some Oakland and some Charger. I'll start with the charger because that is what I was working on when the Oakland Body panels were off being repaired.

I have always liked the look of base steel wheels with "Dog Dish " hub caps. I had a set of 15X7" wheels laying around for quite a few years. I found a very nice set of caps on E-Bay and I won that auction so I had the wheels sandblasted and we painted them up. My original plan involved reproduction Goodyear Polyglas tires but once I found I can buy a set of 4 radials for less then the cost of one Polyglas, I changed tire plans!

 

[Stretch]

As for the Oakland... I've been working on the Wood body structure.

 

[Stretch]

A few more pictures. The last few are of the original door structure and the beginnings of the new right hand door structure.

 

[68R/T]

I'll bet that you never thought that you would need wood working skills to be a mechanic, did you. :clap:

 

[74DartSport]

I'll bet that you never thought that you would need wood working skills to be a mechanic, did you. :clap:

A lot of cars I've seen look like the bodywork was done by a carpenter.

Seeing what he's doing boggles my mind. There can't be too many people with his skill set out there.

 

[v8440]

This is probably kind of blasphemous to talk about here, but it looks like I'll be putting an ls motor in an '81 camaro. I thought about putting my 440/727 in it, but those are for the '68 dart. I guess I'll be needing a cheap chinese turbo and another blow through carb...

 

[Stretch]

I'll bet that you never thought that you would need wood working skills to be a mechanic, did you. :clap:

Ha! Defiantly didn't see it coming.

 

[Stretch]

Seeing what he's doing boggles my mind. There can't be too many people with his skill set out there.

Well thanks for that. I don't know that I really have any skills that anyone else doesn't have or can't have. My dad has an extensive wood shop and he taught both my brother and I how to use that shop and the tools in it. As for this project, Its just a matter of applying that to this. As far as the coach work body. I bought a book, read it, and asked the guy who will be doing the body work how he wanted things done. The rest is just learning as I go and using common sense. Restoman has been more help than he knows.