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07-12-2008, 10:08 PM
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Great work.
The real question is this: Is David (Dr. Billet) & Company-- reinventing a simple Cobra Kit car or are they creating one of the finest pieces of art I have ever seen? (Yes, I have seen alot) It is almost a shame to put a body on it!
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07-13-2008, 04:32 PM
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Great work.
The real question is this: Is David (Dr. Billet) & Company-- reinventing a simple Cobra Kit car or are they creating one of the finest pieces of art I have ever seen? (Yes, I have seen alot) It is almost a shame to put a body on it!
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The project is planned as a one-off. I think it would be prohibitively expensive to sell these as a "normal" kit.
Everyone who sees the car says it is a shame to put a body on it. I need to think of a way to make the body easily removable. Now, that will be a trick that will probably not be possible. But, as you can see, I love a challenge.
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07-13-2008, 04:33 PM
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07-13-2008, 04:35 PM
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Here are a few more pics of the ride coming along.
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07-13-2008, 04:36 PM
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07-13-2008, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by David Kirkham
Everyone who sees the car says it is a shame to put a body on it. I need to think of a way to make the body easily removable. Now, that will be a trick that will probably not be possible. But, as you can see, I love a challenge.
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07-13-2008, 09:29 PM
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I really don't like the way the doors open and there are other things that I don't like. We are thinking about it, however.
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07-13-2008, 09:31 PM
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07-14-2008, 09:31 AM
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07-14-2008, 10:49 AM
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Here we are using wood blocks so we don't mar the tube as we give it a few tweaks. Some bends (called "bend on a bend" in the industry) can only be made with dedicated tooling as you have to have a certain amount of tube to grip on to so you can bend it. In such instances (only the tops of the doors in our case, so a $7,000 die is not justifiable) we do the time honored tube tweaking with blocks of wood.
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