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Workshop my voice is off a little bit I
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got a cold one of my work is Brian came
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down with the cold everybody's got a
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cold but Tim doesn't have a cold Tim is
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from Australia and he's going to be here
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for 37 days so let me introduce you to
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Tim he's from the west coast south of
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Brisbane in in Australia
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oh yeah this coast East Coast east coast
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on the west coast that's right yeah
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hello um yeah doing a Churchill
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fellowship and yeah here with um Ray to
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um and yeah I've been sent across for
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370 hours or 37 days and um yeah quite
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the challenge ahead of me and looking
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forward to learning a lot I was hoping
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to have him work on the Maserati project
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or I got the 1948 Studebaker virtual
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accident project and I said oh my God
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those are really going to go forward but
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now there's another guy coming it's a
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week from now the class starts he's also
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from New Zealand and there's another guy
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from Australia too so we got some
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challenges for the Canadians now Tim
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because I won this prize money The
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Churchill prize which is awarded uh not
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that often what every other year or so
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or yeah not many Automotive ones yeah
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yeah and uh basically it's for further
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study now he did take a class uh was
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right out of high school took a class
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beat light I yeah and piano beating yeah
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panel beat up yeah okay and uh I asked
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him how many hours did he actually have
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on the English wheel oh title of only
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about 10 here okay so we had about 10
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hours on English wheel if the
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instruction was good 10 hours is really
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good but he really hasn't done anything
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since then not but he's got a lot of
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ambition so he surprised me
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that because of the Churchill prize he
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has to have a project that he brings
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back to Australia and I says well what
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are you going to do and he says well I
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bought a carb and I have a ship to your
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shop I said what'd you buy he says a 79
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Firebird with t-tops and I said oh my
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God it's going to be a rust bucket who
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wants to work on a rust bucket so it
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delivered today from Kentucky and it's
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right behind us and we're going to go
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over and look at the car so here's the
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car 79 of course it it was described as
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a really nice car and it was a big
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surprise when we saw it there's uh
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there's been a little bit of a hit on
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the front it's not super severe but it's
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got your typical quarter panel rust
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Rockers are gone the door the bottoms
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are gone and it's dents and and dings
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all around it and but it you know after
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you absorb it for a while it does have
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this Elegant Beauty about it and this is
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the car that they used in the movie uh
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was named Smokey in the Bandit Smokey
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so I mean it it's got some cultural
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history to it and everything it's
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actually a pretty cool car so I all day
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I've been absorbing the car so I looked
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at it and goes okay was she a typical
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patch panel repair here well let's do
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this so I said well it's kind of boring
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you know we're going to cut that off
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we're going to find the the inner
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structure panel is all rotted we'll have
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to make one of those up and you probably
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can buy these patch panels so what is
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Tim Gonna Learn I've got geez it came
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all this distance he's got to learn how
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to fix a rock Box I said no there's got
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to be a different way I'm looking at the
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car you know the car is really cool so I
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said why don't we do this and he
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immediately accepted when I The Division
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I had because he's working on these uh
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the Japanese cars City Austin on zip and
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those he said add the aluminum front
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ends and aluminum doors too uh not doors
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I have aluminum front guards and what
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okay yeah the whole front nose is all
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aluminum on those I says well
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that'd be a cool thing we can change
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this car and make it into a one-off by
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throwing a lot of aluminum at it so what
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do we want to do so I came up with this
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idea and Tim accepted it right away
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which is really cool I straight off the
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bat um I picked up that there was some
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repairs that were needed just onto the
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front it's had a slight Heat and the
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radiator support panel this kind of
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needs to be pulled trying to mirror off
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this shape on the front bump is going to
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be quite interesting in aluminum these
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guards they're going to be changed
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the door skin aluminum again
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and then going into doing just
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traditional steel patch repairs in the
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back in the rust areas
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and again working on the roof there's a
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section up there that's
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got a massive low spot in it so just a
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more aligning the panels back on the
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booth area so the boots a little bit
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pushed forward rear Beaver panel doing a
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rear bumper as well in aluminum
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on this side it's got a bit of damage um
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again patch paneling and a bit of rust
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so patch paneling through these sections
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just the traditional way so nothing too
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flash there and then going back onto
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this dual skin again the internal
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structure will still be still and then
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put something in between to separate it
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for stop galvanic corrosion but putting
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like the aluminum skin on the outside
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and then aluminum again on the front
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and then yeah basically leave the leave
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the wood the same with the bean
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screaming chicken yeah pretty says what
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it is stands out and Trans Am so yeah
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I'll keep that yeah it looks great yeah
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yeah that old patina yeah it looks
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fantastic keep watching and we're going
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to be making a lot of videos on this
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front end it's Ray and Tim from Pro Shop
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at the workshop in Charlton
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Massachusetts thanks for watching
