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We had 2 students who took advantage of our 130 hour program Travis and Larry. Both had very little to no experience. Travis worked on the Studebaker truck fender using our wireform as a guide and did beautiful work! With about 5 days left to go Travis and Larry wanted to learn how to create a wireform so they took on the studebaker truck cab. After a few days they did a great job outlining everything, now all we need to have done is putting the lines for the doors and windows and then seeing if any corrections need to be made.
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hi
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it's ray from pro shape a workshop look
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at this this is a studebaker truck i've
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been hoping it would be a little bit
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more advanced than what it is now this
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is what we did last summer with peter
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from chicago peter came over he wanted
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to learn at my class how to do the
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drawing
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we had a little model i'll show you the
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model in a minute
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and a lot of photographs and
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from that model we determined that we're
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going
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to have to make some changes so we made
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the cab a little bit bigger when we did
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this
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this is with my magnetic drawing board
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this is magnetic plastic strip similar
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to a
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refrigerator magnet and this is tyvek
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and you can just move this around and
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move it just like you do a cad line
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until you really like it we set the
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wheel base
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i made the wheelbase i think two inches
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longer than the standard
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37 studebaker pickup which i consider
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one of the nicest looking trucks it has
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this beautiful
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slope back grill that follows all the
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way back on the cowl
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so peter was really happy he took i
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think 130 hour class
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and were able to get this drawing all
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done
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and then peter made this wire form
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and this was the first wire form that
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peter had made
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and he wants to build his own car a lot
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of my students
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see that's a really good way to go and i
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believe that's the best way to go
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a lot of people are a little intimidated
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in building their own car
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it's actually inexpensive you can build
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your own car oftentimes a lot cheaper
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than you can
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restore a car depending of course on the
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car
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but when you're building your own car
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you can shoot for the moon you can make
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anything you want you can make
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a rolls-royce or a duesenberg or a
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bentley
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or ferrari or studebaker whatever you
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want
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and from that
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wire form that peter made i just had 230
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hour students
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and larry and travis and travis had
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zero i mean zero experience he'd never
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put a piece of metal in an english wheel
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at all
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and i showed him how to do what he
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needed to do
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and larry had about maybe five or six
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hours he said
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total in wheeling and he had only made
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these little pots before
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so this was their first attempt at
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making an entire fender off of this wire
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form
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and they did a beautiful job the welds
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on the back side look nice
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all flanged this is going to be a wide
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edge here this is o60 aluminum
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there's a few minor flaws there's a
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little over development right here
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i'll be able to heat that and slap that
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right down no problem
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not going to do that yet and then we
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made a flexible shape pattern off of
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this
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and larry started making the other side
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which would be this is the left side
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fender
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and this would be the right side fender
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so we have to the travis made some of
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the gauges with the flexible shape pad
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and the gauges
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you don't need a buck for the other side
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we'll just use those gauges and flexible
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shape pad to make the three pieces
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it's one piece here one piece here and
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one piece here
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it was all shrunk using my gathering
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tool
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and the shrinking facilitator and then
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hammered out in the center a little bit
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so a combination of shrinking and
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stretching
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then they said well we only got a couple
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more days left here
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so i they both wanted to try wire for
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them and so i says well
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we got to wire form the cab the cab is
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the essential element on this
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uh we have the wire form for the rear
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fender
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i have an original fender it's all rusty
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but the shape is all great
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and we started making flexible shape
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patterns and gauges off of that and
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those will be made
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all from the flexible shape pad engages
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the front fenders
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and the hoods are basically pretty flat
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uh
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we'll we'll make some kind of wire form
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buck for the top part of the hood
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but the sides are all all flat the
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grille is a different deal altogether
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and the bed is all flat stuff so that's
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pretty easy so the
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the most difficult part of building this
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whole uh
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truck is to build this cab section first
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and the cab section the original
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dimensions
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uh if you go by them your shoulder is
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going to be right up against the
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shoulder so
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uh we we sat down in chairs and we
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measured our outside shoulder dimensions
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two side by side was i think it was
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larry and myself sat side by side
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and it was 53 inches so
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then we figured about two inches for the
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thickness of the doors so it's a 56 inch
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total
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width so they want to do the wire form
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and that's already somewhat in
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here as far as the length we expanded
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the length here but we needed to figure
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the length for the width
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so larry and travis
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first wire form attempt they made this
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nice cabin closure here it's not
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anywhere near finished
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then it might have to be adjusted a
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little bit but
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it's a really good start and like i said
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this was the first time they had ever
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wire formed so i told them
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let's make a box structure inside so you
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can attach all the wires to
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and i had some of this i think a 16
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gauge
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bent up stock here and uh
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they mig welded a nice little box in the
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middle with inside the confines of the
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outside of the body
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and larry was proficient in fusion 360
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the free
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software program that you can get online
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from autocad and
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using the side view drawings i had here
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and and coupled with the model so here's
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the little model
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and larry took this model and
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took photographs from the top view
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the rear view the front view and we had
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the side view
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already which is a modified version of
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this like i said we expanded it a little
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bit
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uh and taking into consideration those
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modifications of enlargement
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uh larry took the drawings in through
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fusion 360
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and his outlining tool and from that he
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created dxf
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files and this isn't the way i do it but
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larry was comfortable with that method
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and i have a cnc wood router
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with a pen in it it's a 4x8 wood router
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so we took that those dxf files loaded
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them onto that
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wood router and was able to draw the
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drawings out full scale
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which then they bent the wires and
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they factored all the measurements from
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larry's drawings of where the wire
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spacing was going to be
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now this wasn't exactly the way i would
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do it when i do it
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i do it just on the magnetic board which
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is very simple to do
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but larry you felt comfortable doing it
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that way so it says okay go with it
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and uh their results are pretty good uh
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like i said we might have to tweak them
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a little bit now these are just basic uh
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what i call
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primary lines now these got to be
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enhanced
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by what we'll do is we'll take the lines
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i have for the door there
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and those will all go in here so now the
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door will get defined
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and the windows will get defined the
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windshield post needs to be defined
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this might be in the way we'll lop that
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off if it if it is
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not a problem and the back window i'm
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going to put a little bit bigger back
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window than standard in the
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in the original 37 so all those
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enhancements have to be
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have to happen yet maybe some student in
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another class
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might might want to partake in learning
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the process and doing all that too so
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that might happen that way
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but overall i was pretty thrilled that
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they did some
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really good work in a short amount of
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time
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and with results like that i mean they
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speak for themselves
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so the studebaker project moved forward
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a little bit
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