I have been looking in on this thread from TorinoCobra.com since it started in March. The guy is rescuing a Cyclone that was rotting in the woods. He is doing an amazing amount of one-off fabrication. I don't know if he is good or not, but he's got guts. I hope he feels the car is worth it when he is done. There are seven pages so far...

http://www.torinocobra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9623&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Tim, two things....boy's got SKILLS, boy is insane. Rebuilding a car like that half a square foot at a time. Just outrageous.

I reckon he's doing OK. Lots of work, I'll bet the boy's got ton's of time on his hands

... Although, the terms  masochist and Frankenstein also pop into mind. I am thoroughly impressed for his vision, all I could see from the first pictures is a waste of a once nice car. What I didn't see was any thought of a base for restoration.

Those are the kind of cars that most folks think of as a vin number to be welded onto a rebody.

Tip O' the hat for the huevos on that hombre.

Just good clean fun.

Sorta reminds me of a certain 63 Marauder. Other than replacing 85% of the sheet metal it was in great shape!

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Boy just likes workin' on cars. Good project if you have the time and skills.

1967 Falcon 4 door 351C-4V
1970 Mustang 351C-2V
http://raceabilene.com/kelly/hotrod
Owner built, owner abused.

When I see a rebuild that replaces that much of the car - I wonder just how well the car is put back together. I would expect the "technician" to be very careful about his panel placement, welds, etc - but is the car still "square"?

NASCAR teams seem to have "flat tables" - spend a lot of time making sure everything stays where it should be. I even remember reading an article, a few years back, where they took a new Ferrari coupe, and made into a convertible.

First they supported the car, measured from various points to ground - then removed the top. Then re-measured everything. Where it sagged, they installed needed bracing, support to bring the car back to true. Starting out with so little of the original car, I wonder how/if he took that much care? 

I don't think asking this question is being too nit-picking, even though it aint my car; 'cause I often hear guys who have done frame off,  rotisserie restores, find that when they  get the whole car back together - the  front and rear glass (windshields) don't fit ... they have to fudge them in with loads of sealer or fiddle with shimming the frame. With a unibody car, it has to be even worse?

Even factory cars, where they usually take a sedan and turn it into a convertible usually have extra supports and bracing put in to keep doors from sagging, slow down body flex that usually kicks in after a few years on the road, kids swinging on the door - all the real world crap

I ran into a smaller, but similar problem when I installed an engine. I used a level to make sure the mounts and motor were in right. Unfortunately... I eye balled the ground in my driveway. I figured the slope was "close enough", used some Kentucky windage to compensate.  Once I got everything together ... I noticed that engine had an obvious slope to the drivers side. It didn't hurt anything, but it went a long way to explain why the headers were such a bear to install. I was kinda' lucky, it wasn't too hard to put shims in to make up the worst part of the difference. For me, it was another Lesson learned - the hard way.

 

Separates the men from the boys. Try not to buy a car from a boy!

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