Gray Goats Rod and Custom

  Well here she is! fresh from the mold the4 first C Bucket roadster.  Though the side lines may look crooked they are in fact straight and the 27 Chevrolet fire wall details are crisp and clear. It won't be long now and the frame will be under construction.   We already have the front suspension, engine and quite a few other components so hopefully construction will speed up moving forward.

  Below is the next section of the mold.  Having started with the upper cowl I moved on to the face of the cowl/fire-wall.  Like the cowl top dams were made by adhering wood to tape surfaces and then topping them with foam dams.  One step I forgot to mention was that the edge of each dam is sealed to the body with a very thin roll of clay smashed between the dam and the surface to prevent resin from leaking past the dam. As with the previous section a special mold grade gelcoat was applied Followed by the application of multiple layers of glass as before Next time we go down the sides!

It seems I skipped a step showing you the red version before showing you the interim stage where the body spent a week or so at a friends paint shop getting a coat of epoxy paint.  Also included below are a couple of shots showing the body lines I added.  

  This is the final product, a 27 Chevrolet firewall blended into the modified body.  This is how it got there... I started with the smoothed firewall on the modified body and puzzled for quite a while about how to add the Chevrolet style firewall I wanted.  Eventually I decided to mold in an original 27/28 firewall that I bought out of the mid-west. It started out with a good bit of surface rust and quite a few holes but once patched filled primed and sanded it was ready to install.  I cut out a section of the cowl and grafted in the newly restored piece and after a good bit of finish work...