Re: Rons '28 Packard Speedster Project.

Posted by Ron Schuman On 2009/1/20 17:16:57

11/2008
November '08 was interesting, but it seemed to be a series of false starts.
You see, when this project was in the BS and cocktail napkin stage I had assumed we would do all the mechanicals and turn it over to one of the local panel beaters to make the basic body. The proposed design was fairly simple requiring no doors or trunk lid and I figured we would do the hood and possibly the cowl ourselves. Then my friend Dion, who I work with a lot and who is a fabricator extrordenar, expert painter, and mechanical genius insisted we build the body ourselves. Insisted! Having studied his work for years, and had his help on many other projects there was no doubt that even though he had never built a body before he could do it! And I could help, I think.
At first everything we did we did 2 or 3 times, sometimes more! Or maybe he was just re-doing my work? It really shouldn't be surprising as we were starting to build the body bucks, or templates. Something we had never done before. But after a little practice things started to fall into place.