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Old 04-13-2006, 01:00 PM
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Making hinges by hand

See the following link and the pics there.. Pretty interesting.
http://www.pi.com.pk/work/hinges/

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ehsankiani, How much to build me a 32 Ford 3 window coupe body?
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ehsankiani, How much to build me a 32 Ford 3 window coupe body?

.. Pic?
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You are serious.. ? If so.. Yes.. This can be made here. We would need one to use as a reference though or otherwise need extremely detailed pics. Cost can only be assessed when the body is in front of the mechanics here. I would estimate between US$4500-5000 + shipping. This is all from plain sheet metal.
The soft top models would obviously be easier to make and cost less.
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OK, who here has a body we can send over for reference? Would fiberglass work for shapes and dimensions?
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Just for discussion sake, would the first buyer (I'm assuming that's you Baddbob) be willing to have a "non-exact" deuce built. If so, instead of finding and shipping a deuce all the way to Pakistan and back, could ehsankiani use a 1/24 th scale model as his guide? It just seems for the first experiment out of the box that you would want to do this with the least amount of hassle and expense. And it's a lot easier to ship a Revelle model than it would be to ship an entire body (assuming you could even find somebody willing to part with a body for that long). What do you think ehsankiani, would it be possible for your shop to scale up from a plastic model?

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Yes. That is one possibility. a bit larger then 1/24th would be better along with actual measurements. Can anyone post pics of a body that has been stripped down. That would give a better view for assessment.
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Roadster pics

here are some roadster pics that give an idea of body contours..
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here are some roadster pics that give an idea of body contours..

That is easily do-able.
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Ehsan, If your friends can produce a coupe or roadster body shell for $4-$5000.US and if shipping is reasonable and quality is acceptable you'd have a huge market for it here and many other places around the world. How long would it take to tool up for this project? I would imagine panel forming dies would need to be made and you'd also need a test buck? Interesting....
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