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02-16-2008, 11:44 AM
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It would look great with 15" magnesium wheels in 15X8 and 15X10.
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02-16-2008, 01:29 PM
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Somewhere, slowly moving out of Utah, is a railroad gondola car full of aluminum chips and kerf.....courtesy of the Kirkham Brothers. 
Methinks perhaps you have too much time on your hands and a full machine shop, a dangerous combination! 
Way kewl!
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02-16-2008, 02:10 PM
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We go through about 1 ton/week!
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02-16-2008, 03:05 PM
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Awesome pics.......thanks for sharing!
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02-16-2008, 03:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Kirkham
We go through about 1 ton/week!
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Hey David,
How about an all aluminum 1966 Mustang fastback 
Bill S.
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02-16-2008, 03:57 PM
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Okay, I know many on this site are Cobra/Ford only fans... but how about an aluminum Lola T70 replica?...
Or.... a Scarab of Lance Reventlow fame?
Or how about marketing aluminum front fenders for the factory lightweight cars of the 60's... 63 chevy fenders for a Z-11 repop, and 63 Catalina fenders for the a SD 421 clone? Did the Galaxies and SuperStock Dodges have aluminum fenders as well? Lots of possibillities!!!
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04-25-2010, 02:47 PM
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Quote:
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Hey David,
How about an all aluminum 1966 Mustang fastback
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05-05-2010, 03:48 PM
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How is routine maintenance handled? What happens in case of minor fender-benders? What if there is minor frame damage? Does it have to be shipped back to Utah? Or did the price include all the CAD/CAM files for local machinists to work from? How is it licensed in California? What kind of warranty came with it? Does the price include inspection and bolt-tightening after x-miles or x-months, whichever comes first?
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05-06-2010, 09:22 AM
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How is routine maintenance handled? What happens in case of minor fender-benders? What if there is minor frame damage? Does it have to be shipped back to Utah? Or did the price include all the CAD/CAM files for local machinists to work from? How is it licensed in California? What kind of warranty came with it? Does the price include inspection and bolt-tightening after x-miles or x-months, whichever comes first?
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Would you want to trust your local machinist to make some of these parts? Or wouldn't you prefer to just get replacement parts from the source? If you damaged suspension pieces on a Shelby CSX 4000, wouldn't you call up Shelby or your Shelby dealer to get replacement parts?
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05-07-2010, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Sizzler
How is routine maintenance handled? What happens in case of minor fender-benders? What if there is minor frame damage? Does it have to be shipped back to Utah? Or did the price include all the CAD/CAM files for local machinists to work from? How is it licensed in California? What kind of warranty came with it? Does the price include inspection and bolt-tightening after x-miles or x-months, whichever comes first?
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Sorry for the delay in answering guys.
Minor fender bender--no big deal. We handle them all the time.
Frame damage--no bid deal. We have all the parts programmed into the CNC and they can be made.
David
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05-07-2010, 05:38 PM
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I second that... wow, a dream.
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Thanks for the kind words. An aluminum Fastback would be a dream--no doubt. So many cool projects, but so little time to do everything. There are just too many other projects in the works right now.
David
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06-04-2008, 12:42 PM
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1ntCobra,
I guess you could read his post that way??? But I am not sure. I guess the tubes could be made from a billet aluminum block, but I think the effort would be pretty tremendous. Of course, the whole car's effort was pretty tremendous. We used the tubes in those locations because the original car used tubes in those locations--sort of a nod to the original. So why didn't we use tubes in other places??? Artistic license I guess.
Lew, the car weighs in about 20 pounds lighter than an original car. Now, we haven't weighed it yet (not done) but everything else in the CAD was right so far so I imagine that will be right too.
SPO1715,
Thanks for the kind words. That was certainly the goal we had in mind. The proof will be in the test drive, however!
David
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06-04-2008, 12:48 PM
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Lew,
The car will have VERY light wheels and tires...
David
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06-04-2008, 01:10 PM
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Can't wait to see them!
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06-04-2008, 01:16 PM
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Now we are going on to the steering system.
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06-04-2008, 01:18 PM
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Here you can see we slotted the steering rack mounts. This is so we can do the fine adjustments on the placement of the steering rack. You move the steering rack to tune out the dreaded bump-steer.
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06-04-2008, 01:21 PM
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And here is a shot of the roll bar being fitted to the car.
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06-04-2008, 01:22 PM
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Here are some little parts we machined out. The adjuster screws are made from 17-4 PH.
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