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As you may know I have several 69 big cars (including a Canadian 2+2).  Despite having found an NOS nose and one nice used one on eBay over the years I still can't give all my cars a nice nose piece so I'm trying a new twist;building a sheetmetal shell to replace the original "rubber" mat'l.  I took a completely crumbling core and chipped off all the rubber stuff to give me just the metal base, then we formed a top, bottom and vertical spine in 18g steel (my body guy is super crafty with sheetmetal) using a mint original nosepiece as a reference.

Should be ready for paint next week, going on my 2+2 which is ready and waiting for its spray of the lower body.  

 

 

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Speaking of which, the 2+2 roof is now painted (original Palladium Silver) just waiting for the nose to shoot the lower boy its original Burgundy.

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Here is the in progress nose as installed, looks very promising.  I didn't like the fiberglass one because I wanted to replicate the lip where it meets the hood.  There is a hollow and then a protruding lip that gives that nice finished look when the hood is closed.

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Wow, nice job!

 

Here is a link that may be of interest to others 

https://www.replica-plastics.com/product/front-nose/






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I'll take one please biggrin

Nice !



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Don't ask the cost, I'm afraid to add up the hours!

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A labor of love for sure. To the distinguished folks at Canadian Poncho we get it. Nice craftsmanship.



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Very well done. I look forward seeing the finished result.

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Love the results. Will be nice to see the final product.

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Making great progress. Looking forward to the end result.

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Ouch, that takes dedication. Sure looking good though. Great idea.

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love the tinbashing!

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That is one nice nose job! Can't wait to see the end result.

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just about ready to paint

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Amazing job

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I'll buy your old one if you don't need it.

Awesome !

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You could probably scan that and 3D print repro's to sell.

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Nice job! I'd say twins.

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Finally got it painted, came out beautiful (except for the color being off.  The PPG formula for Burgundy is wrong.  

 

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Now that is craftsmanship! Beauty end result.

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hawkeye5766 wrote:

Now that is craftsmanship!

 x2 A lot of work, but worth it on such a prominent part.



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Very very nice !

Reminds me of my nighbours 1/4 steel plated mailbox.

It looks great and the vandals will get a surprise biggrin

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PS, I will store the old one on my car wink



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The 2+2 is finally back in the garage after 9 months at the bodyshop.  I told them there was no rush, they took me literally I guess!  Anyhow very happy with the end result.  Apart from the bottom corners of the front fenders there was zero rust in the car and no major collision damage but man this car had a thousand little dents and minor fender benders.  The first shoot of the Burgundy was wrong so we reshot it with the correct color.  All the jams are still factory paint.  The stripes are as correct as I can get them; using the residual striping in the door jam, the factory assembly manual, brochure illustrations and some old pics of a original paint gold 2+2 we did our best to replicate the front and rear extremities.  The rear tapers straight line as it goes back and wraps around the bumper scallop.  The front also tapers but it has a curve right up front to a point.  Short of finding some NOS pieces this is as close as anyone can come for now.

 

I can see why the original owner order the Palladium Silver two tone, it matches the stripe colors and even the top white pin matches the interior color (factory 2+2 stripes had the top stripe contrasting the other two) 

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Interior light.

 

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We had to custom blend the burgundy color, the PPG formula is way way off. We had the manager mix another pint and he came up with the identical (wrong) color.  Here is the PPG Burgundy as compared to the color chips in my original 69 Showroom Sales Album.  BTW, the factory paint in the Jams matches the factory color chips beautifully so we used them as a guide to do the custom remix.  

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