'38 BMW by juddman

By diyauto
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2 minute(s) of a 27 minute read

8-3-2013

Hi Folks - 

Another quick update: This time Doug has fabricated and is fitting some metal on the left side of the cowl. Next up will be the panel immediately forward of this one, which is apparently quite a complex bit to get right. His comments follow:

"The panel just forward of the new cowl piece is junk and so I've started making a new replacement. It has a pretty complex reverse saddle curve toward the front and It's highly visible so it's taking a bit of time to make sure it comes out correct. I made a hammer form to get the basic shape and then made a set of steel dies for the Pullmax to put in the final shape, albeit it's just one profile out of several that I need to make for this panel. And, because of the complexity it has to be made out of several pieces, which will then be welded together. "

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For your amusement, the color combo I'm considering looks something like this, which I believe to be fairly close to original for my own car:

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Comments

Wow this was a lot of work!

Posted by Diggymart on 9/13/20 @ 1:09:15 PM