Cobra replicas in Australia

[Rebel1]

Bernie....re scoop...I got one from Don Pilling...thanks for info tho.

Mike....re floppy bodies ... Have you been peeking or swopping stories with my wife?

David Hodgson...G-Force and RMC's are very similiar bodies...I suspect they come from the same mould.

The RMC suffers from sunken panels in the doors and the area immediately in front of the door jamb..between the side vents and the door jamb. The reason is that:

1: they pull the bodies from the mould while they are still green
( not properly cured)

2: The inner tub is glassed in with the body is OUT of the mould and the glass used to bond the tub to the body shrinks and pulls the panel in.

Frankly, depending on the extent of the hollow, I really don't like the use of straight bog. If the hollow is minor...say less than 2mm, then bog would be ok. However, one of my panels took had a hollow of nearly 5mm. The amount of bog to fill this is quite heavy and reliant of a secondary polyester bond.

I know of an RMC cobra, beautiful expensive paint job....crossed a railway crossing at speed and the bog fell from the door. NO GOOD!!!!

Deep hollows should be ground back to the glass...cross hatched...and chopped strand mat/resin applied to fill the void to just below desired surface. Then bog to final finish.

In my case..I went to the extent of using epoxy resin with unbound glass because of the much greater secondary bond and that epoxy laminate is somewhat more flexible than polyester so the added laminate would move with the original panel.

FOAM in the doors...make sure you provide a strong dam around ya latches to isolate any foam intrusion to the latches.

You might find you'll have to step over to get in...not easy when you wear big red shoes like bernie.