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1948 Studebaker Future Car Build
Andrew from New Zealand has been at the shop for 3 weeks and has been working on the 1948 Studebaker Future Car designed by Virgil Exner. Andrew worked on the front nose section using aluminum. He made 4 panels and then TIG welded the section together. When he finished welding, he planished the weld using a slapper and dolly.
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hi it's Ray from Pro Schaefer workshop
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and we haven't been on for a while but
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we're back at least for this video we've
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been really busy so we built this 48
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Studebaker Future car designed by Virgil
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exner now you say who's a Virgil
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accident Virgil accident was responsible
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for all the Chrysler gear show cars gear
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built them Virgil Exeter and his team of
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designers designed them they made dozens
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of them that's a Virgil designed this in
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1948 and it was uh first unveiled the
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drawing which is only a I think a
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left-hand three-quarter side front view
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at the uh Academy of Automotive
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Engineers meeting in 1948. so I had seen
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this picture on Facebook and I said oh
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my God that's so great we've got to make
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it so I think it was about four years
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ago so we did the full-scale drawings
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with our drawing board with the the
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adjustable magnet system and the drawing
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is very rudimentary there's no facility
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for the wheels the front wheels the turn
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or anything it's just a concept drawing
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not a build drawing of any type so I had
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to scale it and there was no design for
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the rear of the body so I had to design
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the rear of the of the body well we'll
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give you a little peek of that too
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a lot of people don't understand why
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wire versus the Wood Station Buck if you
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go in any of the forums you're going to
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see Wood Station Buck Wood Station Buck
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Wood Station Buck which are easy to make
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but super difficult to work with and
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once you work with the wire form you
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will see the advantages of working with
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the wire form so
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this year
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uh I decided that we're going to put
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this car on the front burner for the
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students I'm going to let the students
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build it all we have built over the last
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couple years almost the whole surface of
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this car using 20 gauge steel panels and
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now I decided that well I don't want a
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steel body and I was using those only as
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learning exercises for the students
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never never to actually be put together
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or anything if I said uh we've got to go
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with aluminum body on it I trust the
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students enough now to use the aluminum
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and if they make a mistake I've learned
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through the years that I can correct
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these mistakes or show them the students
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how to correct the mistakes which is a
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great lesson in itself how to fix
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mistakes because you always make a lot
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of mistakes so this is Andrew from
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actually born in Canada but as I think a
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two-year-old you moved to two-year-old
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he moved to New Zealand and he lives in
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Nelson New Zealand a town in the
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southern island you said I think yeah
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southern island it's about uh we looked
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it up as like 53 000 people live in
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Nelson I had never heard of Nelson
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before but a lot of New Zealand to see
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greater Economic Opportunity in
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Australia and I didn't know you don't
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need a work permit or anything if you're
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a New Zealander you can go to work in
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Australia and vice versa so he found a
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job 20 years ago yeah 10 years ago in in
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Perth and working in the mining industry
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and prior to that you had done a lot of
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welding in New Zealand yeah yeah so he's
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got about 20 years of welding and
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fabricating under his belt now
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fabricating means taking thicker pieces
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of metal and they've stick welded them
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together and Mig welded them together
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but actual sheet metal Automotive sheet
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metal very little on none right yeah and
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you do have a little English wheel
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similar to like a Harbor Freight English
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wheel yeah for a short period yeah and
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you played around with it you really
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didn't understand it yeah I was kind of
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going backwards a bit and yeah making a
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lot of mistakes so he's done really well
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in the uh the mining industry and he's
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moving back to New Zealand and he's
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looking to see what he's going to do
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with his future he's only what 36 you
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said 35 35 and
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um he's got a brother that's actually a
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star on Tick Tock who uh Kenny Kenny
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Patton what's the name he goes on
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patent machines okay yeah if you want to
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look at his brother's videos he does
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these eccentric videos using two-cycle
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gas engines and uh so Andrew was um
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intrigued with what the potential was
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with working with the English wheel
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and he thought it would be a good thing
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to do is come over to the U.S and and
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take a class from me and I asked him if
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he would be interested in working on the
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Studebaker because I want to get
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something done on it now I had another
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student make
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this panel that's going to go right in
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here as you see there's no wire form
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right there because you can you lift
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that up
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we Andrew has made these panels
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and this is my system that I developed
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where you can make these joints for the
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wire form and they bolt right together
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so this was all welded together but when
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you make the panels and you want to take
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the panel off it's impossible because
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it's mechanically locked on with flanges
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so the only way you can do it is destroy
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the wire form but if you use these
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little joints which are simple little
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you know we weld up a couple Square nuts
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and we get the threads that way so we
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don't have to thread anything then we
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got a little piece of Steel here with
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two holes and it joins with its its
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brother over here you put a quarter
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twenty bolt in it and boom the whole
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thing goes right back perfectly and that
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allows you by removing that you can take
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off the panel that he made Andrew was
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faced when he first came here with this
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panel was already done by another
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student and the panel below it was done
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by another student but this one was it
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really needed to be remade so he had to
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remake that one he had to make this one
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and this one and the one that was below
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here he pretty much had to redo the
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thing to get it totally symmetrical and
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uh good quality on the surface
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I said here's what Andrew did and it's
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as good as it gets this is world-class
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quality some of the best shape is in the
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world would struggle on this panel now
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it's taken Andrew a lot of time it's
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been what about two or three weeks
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you've been here three weeks and uh
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he made a few mistakes but
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not that many and he learned how to
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correct them and he's a real
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perfectionist and he's an excellent TIG
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welder so he hadn't done much aluminum
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welding at all prior to this but he
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picked it up real quick
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and he's got this all welded together
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there's a little bit of planishing to be
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done this was welded last night and this
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still needs to be planished I don't
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think you'll be able to finish it today
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he's leaving tomorrow this is the last
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day here so let's put this on and we'll
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show you what it looks like ta-da
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[Music]
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is that cool now have you ever seen a
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car that looks like that now we can add
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some of the other little we got a copper
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nose cone
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and the little funnel piece that it goes
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on the front
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so this is going to pop in here this
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needs a little bit of adjustment another
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student made that
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and then this copper nose cone this has
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got to be trimmed down yet and stuff
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almost lost it
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me I've already dropped it once and the
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point get all bummed up I'm gonna
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probably make another one on this I made
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this cone probably about four years ago
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so let's take that out just in case but
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you got an idea of what it looks like
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and uh
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it's just an amazing design now we've
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got a couple other panels that'll have
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to be made here these covers for the
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wheels have been done but they need a
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little tune-up and this panel here is
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not that hard to do the hood panel has
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been done so we're going to have the
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front of this done probably in a couple
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months or less
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and it's just going to be an awesome
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looking vehicle
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all right so here's the back end the
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Canadian that came in his name is Martin
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Miller and he did an unbelievable job on
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his first time he ever shaped sheet
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metal too this is 0.63 aluminum uh he
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didn't do the welding he wasn't
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proficient enough in the welding I did
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the welding but all that shaping was
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done by Martin and all the shaping on
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the front was done by Andrew
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a lot of people think oh yeah well Ray
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probably does the whole thing and then
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takes the picture you know no that's not
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the case this is totally student built
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and that's the way I want it so that
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it's a testimony to
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um if the students listen to what my
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instructions are and they follow him to
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a t you'll get an absolute amazing
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results this craft is is a really
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complicated craft if you're coming in at
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from the angle you're going to self
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learn the whole thing it can take you
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years and years and years to self-learn
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but if somebody tells you where all the
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minds are in the Minefield you can walk
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through that field without fear of being
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blown up and this this back end and both
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the front end I think a testimony to
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what I'm saying is true okay so here we
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are back at the front end and uh I just
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wanted to thank Andrew for doing such a
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unbelievably good job and maybe he'll
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come back some other day
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and uh I just want to say goodbye and
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thanks to all the people that keep
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building my channel we're up to 63 000
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subscribers Andrew do you have anything
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to say for final word uh
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no no
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he's he's a better shaper than he is a
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Spoke person
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very very humble so thanks thanks for
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the great job and uh thanks for watching
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Everybody we're going to have a lot more
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installments on this uh 48th Studebaker
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future cop by Virgil exit it's Rachel
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lean from Child Massachusetts thank you
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