[Land-speed] Streamliner nose

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---- Doug Odom <dlodom at att.net> wrote: 
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>     I have been cutting patterens and making bucks for the new streamliner body. I really wanted to make the body out of aluminum but I was not sure my skill level was good enought. Most of the panels will not be to compound but the nose is. I could make the whole body out of fiberglass but that stuff is so much mess and you have to make the damn part 3 times. The plug, the mould and then the part. I figured I would start with the easiest panels in the back and work my way to the nose. Then I could alway make the nose out of composite materal.
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>  Last weekend there was a metal meet up in Santa Cruz. Now I have read about them and seen pictures so I thought I might go. Went with my son in law and a friend that does street rod work. We took the buck and some aluminum and hoped someone could give us some help. Well I got lucky and fell into a gold mine of information and help. Lazze and Ron Covell were there and Ron took a real interest in my project and stayed late, after 6pm Sunday to finish it up for me. There were 5 diffenent English wheels you could use andI learned things that I will use to tune mine up. Planishing hammers, shrinker/streicher, bead rollers, etc.If you ever have a chance to go to one of  these by all means do it.
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> So on the drive home we were talking about how we all got lucky and I had to start to laugh. Getting lucky sure has a different meaning when your 69 years old and coming back from a weekend than it used to. 
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> Doug Odom in big ditch