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Proshaper Class Bugatti Build Follow up.
In a few minutes, Scott from Texas will be loading his Bugatti Atlantic project in his trailer. Here is the follow-up video.
This is what Scott accomplished at the ProShaper coachbuilding class. He attended the 13 days class plus 4 additional days.
I have to say this is quite the accomplishment. The quality of the panel work is first class and he did it in a timely manner.
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good morning it's Ray from Pro shaper
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Workshop in Charlton Massachusetts and
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this is Scott's Bugatti
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Bugatti atlantique and what I found out
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was there's a bunch of different
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versions of this and they all have these
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little subtle differences on the front
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fenders the back fenders and Scott liked
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this version the best you're not going
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to be able to see the details that uh
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Scott likes about it because they're not
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done it's in the front fender and it's
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well it's in the rear fender he's got
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the rear fender up there you can see a
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little bit of that but you can see you
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can made a lot of panels it was here for
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my 13-day class and then he extended it
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four more days
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and he had a little bit of help from a
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couple other guys at the class but uh
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pretty much Scott I would say did about
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85 percent of the work here by himself I
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helped him a few things here and there
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when he needed it
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but you get one-on-one attention if you
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need it when you're at the class
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extended class
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and you can see how nice
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all these little details on it now it
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needs to be
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all the panels need to be trimmed and
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then welded we've got a few one weld on
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The Rocker sill there
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uh that was just to show him how he's
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going to have to do the welding and all
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these other panels have got to be a
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little tuning to them the hood last
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night I helped him
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uh put this roll in it the Hood's pretty
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simple actually there's got to be a Bend
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but we weren't ready to do the bend and
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Scott put the
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flanges on the door skin which he made
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a couple days ago and all the Rockets
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are all flanges so some of the panels
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have the flanging done on them and this
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rear fender he made a good start on the
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rear fender
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and the other version of the Bugatti has
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a rear fender
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that actually wraps around in the back
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and joins the other rear fender but this
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one has a little catwalk between the
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fender and the body
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which he hasn't uh wire formed out yet
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and he's going to do that when he gets
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back to Texas
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and the window surrounds and stuff that
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have to be welded in
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they're really deep and it would have
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been difficult to make all those pieces
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so he's going to make those on a break
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use a shrink of stretcher put them in
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and then weld them and it'll probably do
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the same in the front now
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and now he's got enough material I think
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the front one will be able to form right
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out of the panels
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so I'll bring Scott in and Scott's going
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to say a few words
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this is last day we're about to load the
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car up he spent 17 days so Scott's
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staying in front of the car here right
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over here
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and uh you know I just want to say you
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know thanks for coming and what a great
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project and
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um I I ask you a few questions but the
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questions would be what was the most
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difficult part of this challenge of
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building these panels
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down to a light like on top of the door
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they're they're curved in several
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directions so while they look pretty
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simple on the wireframe by the time you
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you've rolled them all out there they're
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actually pretty complex and we're not
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using the stretcher shrinker on the
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edges or any of that it's all being
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rolled on the an English wheel so uh so
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I've learned a lot that that's been a
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challenge but I'll be able to
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do this a lot more quickly on the second
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side yeah and the majority of the panels
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that are on the car are actually kind of
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low Crown uh English wheel panels few of
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them you hammered a little bit to
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stretch them out faster but on the on
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the fenders now you've got a high Crown
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situation and that one we we took and
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put I showed you how to put the gathers
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in it and how to knock the gathers down
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and uh that process now I think you've
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got a pretty good handle on that now
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yeah pretty much yeah so when you get
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back to Texas uh do you have a uh uh a
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sequence of events that you want to see
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happen next so you're going to start
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welding these panels together uh yes I
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have a couple like the fender I need to
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finish
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but then I'll I'll uh I'll weld up the
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panels on this one side get them perfect
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just the way I want them and then I'll
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do the flexible shape patterns and then
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build the other side so so I want to
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have one side completely finished and
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then do the other side okay
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um
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so you're not going to make a wire form
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for the other side if you don't have to
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you you'll be able to flexible shape
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pattern these panels and then maybe make
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some kind of temporary supports and so
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that you can see how everything's going
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together and uh then then weld it all up
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and then you're gonna do super legarre
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inner structure uh as opposed to the
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original ones would have had a hardwood
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inner structure so the Super League gear
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takes up less room and uh basically you
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just keep throwing metal at it until
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it's strong enough it's got to be
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adequate so that uh the big issue on on
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a car and when you're building it is
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it's got to be uh rattle free pretty
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much so you want to make it nice and
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rigid and the the big Hazard is uh uh a
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potholes and and also railroad tracks
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when you go over those you don't want
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the car falling apart on you so uh you
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start with a whole bunch of superligera
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in a structure and then you you know
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talk it a little bit and see if the
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body's moving anyway close to slam the
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doors and all that so you got all that
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ahead of you which is all a great
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discovery uh that has to be figured out
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and uh it's it's a great Challenge and
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challenges your brain and and uh who who
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wouldn't like to do that if you're going
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to be building a whole car you know
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so I boxed the frame which was not
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originally boxed yeah
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that should make it
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pretty pretty stiff oh yeah in the last
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video I mentioned the frame we had a
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little bit of in the first video so I'm
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going to close out with just showing uh
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what he did with the frame and I guess
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you'd had some drawings you found some
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drawings for the frame
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I believe okay yeah I I replicated so
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essentially this is is the same as the
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original Bugatti frame okay so let's
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take a look at the frame it the only
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difference is that he made was uh he
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boxed it up which means it's even
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stronger and it was an eighth inch wall
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uh plate that you made it out of
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yeah eighth inch and he's got his
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Winter's rear end in the front and he
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built his own Bugatti style uh front
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axle
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and uh it it just doesn't get any better
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I mean he did a beautiful beautiful job
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and let me show you the front axle
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this is the front axle that's all the
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way Bugatti did it uh of this one he's
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of course he's gonna he's modern so he's
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gonna put a Jag six in it uh an XK motor
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and also he's got uh was it Wildwood
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brakes or something on it yeah wheeled
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wood brakes yeah they'll be they'll be
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covered so they don't look like disc
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brakes on them okay so he's got four
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wheel disc brake versus the original car
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would have had mechanical brakes I think
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and uh he's got the grill to make I told
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him to make all the trim pieces uh which
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there's not many of them uh all out of
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stainless you know even the door handles
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which is just get a a chunk of stainless
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and Whittle it away a little bit and
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make your own door handles and then
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polish them all up so that's the uh the
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final video of the Bugatti build by
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Scott from Texas it's a masterpiece
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already as you can see uh he did as well
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as you possibly can this is a
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professional quality work
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and he had very little experience before
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he came to the class so I just want to
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thank you Scott again for coming over to
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my class and uh maybe we'll see you
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again in the future you said you've got
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a couple other ideas for other cars once
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you get this done but you're going to be
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busy for maybe another year or two and
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this is the last shot of the Bugatti
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it's going to be loaded in the trailer
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in a few minutes off it goes it's Ray
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from Pro shaper Workshop in Charlton
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Massachusetts thanks for watching