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- My Car
- 73 Convertible
Nice work!
:goodone:That's what the thing that goes into the wall does...ya know, the thing that has the metal things sticking out??? They go into these slot things in the wall... roflWelcome to the 21st Century...but Microsoft can't figure out a way to shut my PC off and keep it off.
Most of them...I have a fastback blueprint that I photo shopped into a coupe for the main body. As for the 'vert and interior I'm wingin' it from some reference pics. The thing that stands out the most is the interior quarter panel trim...the armrest is way to small. Just kinda the way it all layed out somehow??? If you see anything else way off let me know, if it's not too hard to fix I willAre you just eyeballing/estimating dimensions for curves and such?
I can supply photos, dimensions, sketches off of my convertible. Just let me know.If you see anything else way off let me know, if it's not too hard to fix I will
Yes convertibles need some strong bracing to keep the cars together with the doors open. Kinda like a bridge keeping the front and rear parts tied together. Non-convertibles don't require the same because the roofs help structurally keep it all together.Back in the pre-home computer days when I was just 17 we took a 66 Dodge Cornette 2 door hard top and cut the top off with a jig saw and about 60 metal blades. (they kept breaking). We planned nothing and measured even less. It turned out good. the package tray got wrapped in some "leather-ete' to look like a boot and we folded the roof sheet metal over and or slipped some generic door edge guard chrome on (may have been plastic?) to clean it up a bit.
Later in the year we found some rusty convertable windshield trim and sheet metal screwed that over the everything.
We drove the crap out of that car till the 318 went very smokey on us plus as the summer went on the doors would not open so we had to just jump over to get in. I think we had some chassis sagging issues but I don't know why that would be.
I would buy a beater 66 Dodge convert in a heartbeat!
Some one should do this to a beyond hope coupe just to see what it would look like.
- Paul
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