red57
Jedi Knight
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I need some assistance. Long story, I will make as short as possible. I wrecked my 100-6 at a race in 2013, took it home and stripped it to restore but found the frame a lot worse than I thought so I set it aside and shifted to a different project.
I have been working on restoring a 1960 BT7 that I hit a deer with back in 1987. 4 1/2 years in so far. Straightened the frame, replaced sills, right shut pillar, floors, bottoms of hinge pillars and left shut pillar, several frame sections repaired/replaced.The outer body needed a complete new nose on the front shroud, new door skin bottoms, fender bottoms, boot lid bottom, etc. Metalwork on the body is now almost completed and then I will be able to final blast, prime, seal,& paint the chassis and start to actually build a car.
Then, last summer I had a hard drive failure and lost all my pictures - about 500 from disassembly and I don't know how many of each component - I took lots of shots as I disassembled/cut-out rotted metal, then shots of the fit-up, then shots of the welding, then shots if the finished piece - all gone. Many of the pics I took while disassembling were with a tape measure in the picture so critical dimensions would be recorded - theory "a picture is worth a thousand words" .....but only if you still have the picture.
So, this leads me to my current dilemma. I still need to weld in the top/hood mounting hardware and I don't have any pictures/measurements so I am wondering if anyone has a car partially apart that can help me determine the correct location. Measuring vertically from the top of the sill I have approximately 16 3/4". (yes the sills are 3" above the frame)
When I compare with a picture of the shut pillar I cut out it looks like I will be too high - there is a fender mount bold hole that will be covered if I leave it like it is - hard to see but this last picture is of the shut pillar I removed (unfortunately I cant measure since it was cut off above the sill but I don't know how much above the sill) and you can see the hole that will be covered and the fact that the horizontal plate looks lower than what I have now. I'm fine with massaging to fit, but don't have a good way to determine what I need for a target.
Anybody done this? Anybody with ideas?
Thanks, in advance.
Dave
I have been working on restoring a 1960 BT7 that I hit a deer with back in 1987. 4 1/2 years in so far. Straightened the frame, replaced sills, right shut pillar, floors, bottoms of hinge pillars and left shut pillar, several frame sections repaired/replaced.The outer body needed a complete new nose on the front shroud, new door skin bottoms, fender bottoms, boot lid bottom, etc. Metalwork on the body is now almost completed and then I will be able to final blast, prime, seal,& paint the chassis and start to actually build a car.
Then, last summer I had a hard drive failure and lost all my pictures - about 500 from disassembly and I don't know how many of each component - I took lots of shots as I disassembled/cut-out rotted metal, then shots of the fit-up, then shots of the welding, then shots if the finished piece - all gone. Many of the pics I took while disassembling were with a tape measure in the picture so critical dimensions would be recorded - theory "a picture is worth a thousand words" .....but only if you still have the picture.
So, this leads me to my current dilemma. I still need to weld in the top/hood mounting hardware and I don't have any pictures/measurements so I am wondering if anyone has a car partially apart that can help me determine the correct location. Measuring vertically from the top of the sill I have approximately 16 3/4". (yes the sills are 3" above the frame)
When I compare with a picture of the shut pillar I cut out it looks like I will be too high - there is a fender mount bold hole that will be covered if I leave it like it is - hard to see but this last picture is of the shut pillar I removed (unfortunately I cant measure since it was cut off above the sill but I don't know how much above the sill) and you can see the hole that will be covered and the fact that the horizontal plate looks lower than what I have now. I'm fine with massaging to fit, but don't have a good way to determine what I need for a target.
Anybody done this? Anybody with ideas?
Thanks, in advance.
Dave