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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #30 on: April 19, 2020, 11:22:00 AM »
Nobody remakes a trunk floor for a 60, I found one trunk floor for sale that was 90% nice but the price was staggering, so Neal is making it from scratch.

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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #31 on: April 19, 2020, 01:58:18 PM »
Realy nice work



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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2020, 08:50:27 AM »
That trunk floor is scratch made? That guy does an awesome job! Same goes for those patch panels! Really nice crisp lines and contours.
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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #33 on: April 21, 2020, 05:22:22 PM »
He used a Pullmax to make those?



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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2020, 08:40:06 AM »
Heo, yes a Pullmax with wood patterns was used to make the strengthening ribs according to his Facebook page Tin Element.  Not sure how he did the rest but a first-rate job!   
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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #35 on: April 22, 2020, 08:43:50 AM »
That’s a wow, I am not worthy.
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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #36 on: April 22, 2020, 01:52:31 PM »
Heo, yes a Pullmax with wood patterns was used to make the strengthening ribs according to his Facebook page Tin Element.  Not sure how he did the rest but a first-rate job!   
The rest of the panels is probably pullmax and a English wheel with rubber on one wheel
and a shrinker/stretcher in thee rearmost corner



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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #37 on: April 22, 2020, 07:34:04 PM »
Wow, beautiful work. He is a real craftsman. Best metal work I have seen in a long, long time. I thought all of the talented metal workers had left this planet.

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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #38 on: May 01, 2020, 10:38:22 AM »
Trunk floor installed. Next I believe is the interior floor of the car. Luckily AMD makes that stuff, unfortunately there wont be near as much cool metalwork



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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #39 on: May 01, 2020, 11:50:19 AM »
Absolutely beautiful work.  I'd love to hear how the AMD floor pan works out, I'm close to pulling the trigger on one for my '62.

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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #40 on: May 01, 2020, 12:32:38 PM »
That is beautiful
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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #41 on: May 02, 2020, 07:53:32 AM »
Mike, it looks like he Tig welded those trunk pans in place, am I right?  Very impressed to see him reproduce them! 
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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #42 on: May 04, 2020, 09:47:27 AM »
Bruce, yep the different sections of the floor were all TIG'd together into one large trunk panel and then TIG'd in place. We are very happy to have found Neal, extremely humble guy, top notch craftsman.
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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #43 on: July 27, 2020, 12:27:36 PM »
Here are more update photos. A lot of work has been done on the car but none of it was that glorious of stuff, just cutting out bad metal with patches. Neal has started into the floor pans so it's more exciting stuff to look at. We got super lucky and found the drivers side rocker panel NOS on ebay. The drivers side had been mashed and was going to be difficult to get it right.

Note: '60 Starliners have a support brace underneath the floor pan, 61-63 do not have the support brace but an extra bead was added to the floor pan to strengthen it. You can see a piece of tape with an arrow to the bead, that bead was cut out and removed so it didn't interfere with the brace below it. In the top left photo you can see the brace.

 



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Re: Very Beginning of the 60 Starliner
« Reply #44 on: July 27, 2020, 02:50:50 PM »
Looks incredible.  Those are AMD pieces for the firewall and front floor?  Any comment on the fit/quality?