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Yeah, it's wray from proshaper sheetmetal and Charlton and we're looking at
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37 Riley sprite and it's been here for about a month now
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It was brought out by Mike from Tennessee
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Who paid for Bryan Stitz?
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240 our coach building class
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This is what the fender on the right side looks like currently
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You can see it's pretty bad. It's been heavily ground
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it's got surface imperfections all over the place lots of odd repairs and
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it was missing this boot lid and
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Real springy English wheel and he had a good amount of experience with it, but it never made any big panels
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This is the biggest panel. He's ever made
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And now he went right off
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the first days of of the class
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Making this boot lid which has been missing from the calf for like 35 years or so
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There was no boot lid at all. Just that aluminum spear that goes down the middle
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so we had a bunch of photographs of what it's supposed to look like and
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I instructed Bryan into
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Making this wire form out of hot rolled stock 1/2 inch by 1/8 inch
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and we got green tape on it so you can see it Plus that protects the aluminum and
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which he faithfully followed the
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From that we'd be able to get from the pictures from that wire form. He made this side and
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it's two pieces a left and a right on this boot lid and
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then we made a flexible shape at and here's the flexible shaped pattern and
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That allowed him to take that flexible shape hat and turn it inside out and
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Then the other side was made
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So that's how the second side of the boot lid was made right now. It's just tacked together
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Wired them got a really nice fit still needs a little bit of touch-up here and there
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But it's a really nice job overall. And this was a new reoffended
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It was made a lot of it was made by a 19 year old student at my hundred and thirty hour class
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it was the first panel ever made and
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actually about a week or so ago and Brian had to do all the welding there's four pieces and it we made the
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Defenders and everything exactly the way that Reilly made him back in 1937
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so they have four pieces and this reoffended zactly cut and
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shaped exactly like they did it when it was brand new and
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Brian did all the welding in the fitting and
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Between Reilly's work and his work it came out as good as it gets and then Brian made this beautiful front fender
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Again, it was all bodged like the other side
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It had been in a major accident back in
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1939 and had repairs back then and all kinds of body repair since
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and it's just a really outstanding looking fender and
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Just really works really nice
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beautiful proportions
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the fender is good-looking from just about any angle and
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Brian did a superb job on it. This is the radiator shell which is a replacement radiator shell
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Just sitting on there right now
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and you can see the inside of the fender and
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Brian's hoping to bring this back their shop in Mansfield, Ohio
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And now he has all the skill sets that he was lacking
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And he's tuned up the ones that he did have and he hopes to finish the car for the owner Mike
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I just want to introduce you to Brian
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Excellent student unbelievably
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Great worker does a superb job
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If anybody is looking for any panel work or a restoration work or hot rod work
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seek out Bryanston STI TT in
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I've been is one of my best students ever. I'm very impressed
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Oh, thank you Brian. Well, that's it for now from charlton, massachusetts
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1937 Riley it's just scary good. It's beautiful. Thank you
