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Our newest 130 hour student arrived today from Cali and brought with him this beautiful Alfa Romeo buck. At this upcoming 4 day class, our students will have the opportunity to fabricate panels for this car.
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Hi, it's Ray from ProShaper Workshop. We're back. You had to wait four weeks to see this. This is an amazing project that one of
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My students are going to start on Friday He's built this and I'm going to give you a little description of what he's done
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as you can see it's a full surface buck that he's made and
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And his name is Ed. He's from the San Diego area. And he was in Arizona in the late 80s
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And he bought an Alfa and he got the bug. And now he has a bunch of Alphas in his collection
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And six years ago, he decided to take the challenge on of building his own Alfa
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like he was a little Carrazzaria in Italy and wanted to get Alphas business
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So he designed this beautiful shape that you see right here. He started with just a small napkin drawing and
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Then he built a structure that's on the inside right here out of MDF and plywood and stuff. He didn't go with the
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often used MDF Wood station or MDF station type deal. So He made this inner structure in the center and then built out from there
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It sculpted in foam and then Bondo and smooth and veneered And now he has a nice true surface He got pretty good symmetry but we going to do flexible shape patterns off of this and
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We're going to copy one side. So so he's dated at about
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1954 or so 54 55 Ed 74 years old and He's a very up to speed on on car design and and the history of
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Collector cars and what what's good and what's bad. I think he's come up with a really outstanding design
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It's going to look really nice. He bought a 87 Alfa as a donor car. I believe that has a v6 and he's built his own tube chassis and
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That's all going to integrate eventually so he didn't have any knowledge of actually making the aluminum panels and
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He found somebody that wasn't up to his standards and they made a few of panels
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But he discovered me on YouTube and he called me up and now he signed up for 130 hour class
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Where he's going to learn how to do the flexible shape pads and hopefully we'll make a couple of panels
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And then he'll be able to go home and finish this project up time is a little bit of consideration, but it's a
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Really passionate thing that he loves to work on. So The process is as much fun as the finished product. So
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It a it a nice continuity design He got features Like these nice hard lines here that he brought all the way back and then continued him here on the on the rear
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So that's enough from me. Let's bring it into the picture a little bit
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So I had why don't you say a few things that I might have left out in the description here and what you're hoping to do here at the class
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well this Design was something that started off from sketches on numerous napkins and
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slowly came to fruition with lots of multiple tribes in just building the buck and
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We settled on making a box in the middle and adding MDF and putting a few
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pieces and spending a lot of time filling it up with foam and and then the
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35 gallons of bondo on it We I think we left a lot more on the ground than we did on the car on the bucket though
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So there was no cat involved at all right? No. No. Yeah, it's organic design, right? Yeah tape measure and yeah, not only
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Did we use tape measure but a lot of you know, just feeling the car so we had to basically
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basically figure out how the driver fits in there, the proportions of the car, where the
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steering wheel should be within the wheelbase of the car because that defines what the vintage of the car is It should be at the 50 mark of wheel list and then The fact that it got a very long front end and short rear end so that kind of typifies it of the car that of that era
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Otherwise if you do it, otherwise you you somebody will notice I
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Would notice yeah, and you said this is a box at a design you know have no top on it, right
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So you're gonna have a trunk in the back and you have nice hood in the front
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and I just wanted to say that a lot of people they call me and they say well I'd really like
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to take your class but I live in Montana or I live in Texas or something it's too far for us to go so
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here's Ed who put in his closed trailer and drove across the country with his wife
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it took him what four days or five days was it five days five days three thousand miles three
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3,000 miles and here he is so I think he's going to be on task when it comes to stop making panels
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So we'll have a follow-up video and we'll see what Ed does in the next 13 days here
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So thanks Ed for bringing the car and we'll have that follow-up video. It's ray from Pro Shaper Workshop
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Please subscribe and we've been away for a month. Hopefully we can get these videos going again
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We've just been super busy, but I just had to show it's great project. So thanks for watching