Melburg Luft

The main concern my beater has is that the outside curve has many small dings and he doesn't want to have to skim the whole thing with filler and says it'd be better to have an outer skin that is straighter to start with, and unpick these hinge points and weld them onto a new skin. He says to fix th...

type3disease wrote:Or suggest to them as a panel shop that they source one... Given it's that easy

WINNER!

Will reinforce it this week.

jnr356 wrote:no use taking it else where ,you need it on that body when repairing it

And herein, lies the problem

Thanks guys, as always some insightful advice. I think the bottom line is my panel shop are now very busy, so it's easier for them to get me to bring another hood than spend their time fixing this one. It's a bit annoying because I don't think they have any idea how rare the early hoods are, and the...

Josh, i'm on my second one and it's not great. Fair bit of bog will be needed to straight it out not to mention the rusty areas. Ok, i'm going to extend the search to include really nice '56-'57 4-tab Oval hoods. Anyone have a nice one of those? We are going to swap the early inner frame structure o...

Hi guys, So it seems my panel beater feels before he finished the final piece of bodywork namely my 4-tab bonnet, that I should try and find one in better shape than the one I have currently. I've contacted a few of the usual suspects but it has turned up nothing. Hopefully the power of the people w...

Yeah that's just too impressive

I don't know who it belongs to Jase, sorry? I heard it drive off today and it sounded great!

It was very neat! Who built the engine?

jnr356 wrote:49 studebaker

I LOL'd

Ok mate

Thanks JnR, will get in touch with him. Raf, Marc is a good mate of mine, and I believe they cut and shut LHD ones when they do RHD conversions which isn't ideal. One of the US boys said that the early 356 T1's used a VW steering box before they went to the ZFA box in '58 I believe so a VW pitman ar...

Hi guys,

Long short, but does anyone know someone who might have one? Has to be specifically the OG forged pitman arm out if a T1 356A factory RHD car if possible.

Beer for the locator

Dino.

Nice one Sime, good to see it finally in our state

Thanks guys, have found a section.

Hi guys,

Does anyone have this section marked 'A' in spare sheet metal or from a wrecking bus?

What's an Aussie one (RHD) worth? I was talking rhd ones Blardy hell! I've got a RHD one from the donor clip used to repair the front wheel well in the Baron. Make me an offer and I'll pull it out from the mezzanine at my panel beaters shop and get it to you. I was keeping it for a rainy day but a ...

What's an Aussie one (RHD) worth?

So hot it hurts!