well i will crash my own thread then no more
a young french designer saw the previous car in france last year (this was a body we done a few years ago) and always liked it and met up with him at a french meeting and one thing led to another so he sent hundreds of concept drawings and such to get a feel and these had to incorporate the centre body of the old series, it would be wrong to post the whole saga here but ive grabbed these few early ones from the screen hence distortion
from these and further detailed ones we could arrive at the idea shape, i then had this in my head and set about making it, bear in mind i had no measurements nothing so it was ...trying....
this is the raw chassis, with the only bits that applied to me fitted as in wheels engine steering and coilover location, i had no need of the front rear diffs etc as i know where they are and what needs to be done as ive built loads of them so how can i pout it, the purpose of everything is planned and allowance made for things you know will be needed
after setting it square and mounting the centre body from the old car to it i mke a frame to hold the sheet in the place i have in my head if that makes sense
i needednt be pretty or neat as its all going to be scrapped after moulding, some bodies i built had to be perfect as they were running in the ally and not moulded from
sheet going on
gas weldy weldy
taking shape
nearly there
oh and its done fdt twice and whilst a new driver is in the top 5 i will keep the other 7-800 picks aside
tomoz back to the van and doing the engine bay mouns as in exp tank etc
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