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it's Ray from Pro shaper Workshop in
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Charlton we're going to be building that
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Alpha Romeo that's AI
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design here it is right
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here see it I see it first thing we're
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going to do is we're going to do
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something different this time I normally
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make this elaborate build structure that
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I use as a measuring tool it takes
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probably uh three to five days to make
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that I'm going to skip that step and I'm
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going to do something different all we
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had open space that's step number one
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you need open space we're lucky we've
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got a really level floor here not
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everybody has a level floor the first
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wire form I ever did was in
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1993 I I designed a a hot rod and I
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called it the sport Rod because I wanted
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to make a hot rod that was different
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than anybody else's hot rod and I I just
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couldn't come up with anything unless I
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added sports car ideasa so I called it a
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sport Rod well we needed a center line
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and uh the center line at first I was
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going to make it longer than the body I
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think it was 170 in the total length of
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gtv6 so I'm assuming I'm going to make
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this 170 in and uh I was going to make
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it like a foot longer on either end but
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I say oh boy that's going to be
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interfering with the the the the wires
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as they come around I'm going to have
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this to deal with because it be over
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here I says I'm going to put that
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inside so I made it like 8 in shorter so
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the back of the body will be around like
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this and then the front of the body uh
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will have like 8 in overhang on it uh
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and we might make it a little longer we
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can have a little overhang on the front
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in the back more so than the gtv6 had I
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think this has probably got more
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overhang here you know why did we go to
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this height I I think we went through to
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60 in tall uh because it's a little bit
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a couple inches taller than the GTV Hood
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uh roof we're we're using this as
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basically just a uh a rudimentary
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starting point for the center line and
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as we develop the profile then we'll
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chop this off because we don't want this
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on top and and we want the true Center
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Line which is in the middle of this 1in
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uh tube so we'll we'll make little l
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standing for the the wire after we get
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them bent to sat our satisfaction if
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this is the the back of the car this
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would be the roof here or whatever we'll
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be cutting it a little lower and then
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cutting this lower and lower depending
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on where the wire profile goes and then
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we'll add more wires we're going to be
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putting uh more tubes rather putting
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tubes here and we're going to measure
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off of them it's all measuring off the
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center line so that's the reason why why
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we have that total length and then we
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made it very Square we got I made a big
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giant square that I used in the shop and
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for general purposes and all of these
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within uh 30,000 or so and it's just
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migweld together it was very simple to
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make give it a little 45 reinforcement
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with some 3/4 uh Square here and a
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little piece of 1 and 1/2 in 8 in uh leg
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angle Lon down here what we have now is
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we have the space but we developed a
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tool this is a a tool just like if
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you're doing drawings you have
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construction lines if you're doing uh
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old school uh mechanical drawings not
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CAD drawings even CAD drawings you'll
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put uh construction lines in and we have
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of course we have a a a super volunteer
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Frank who's no longer with us other than
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the cardboard Frank but we still love
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him and he's going to be in all our
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videos and we know he's up there and
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heav watching this and and laughing his
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ass off so and this is the card that
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we're going to be doing and Frank will
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help out as much as he possibly can and
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this is an AI Alpha Romeo design that
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Mark created using midj journey.com we
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have a video showing you how to create
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these cars uh using the mid Journey
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uh I've done I think six or seven
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wireforms uh in the shop since I've been
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in this shop which has been 9 years now
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and the system I had before was I built
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a really elaborate structure that was on
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casters that you could move around and
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stuff and I had to do that because uh I
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needed all the space if I had 10 12
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students coming in I couldn't have these
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cars in the way so I had had to have
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them on uh basically uh the casters and
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a jig to move the things around and uh
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it took a while to make that uh heavy
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duty structure and maybe Mark will put a
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picture up of what that looks like too
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and we used those as measuring tools we
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created a box structure and as you made
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the wire for you could measure to that
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structure well this one I wanted to
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economize and I'm trying to make this as
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simple as possible so that anybody in a
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two-car garage can follow along and they
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can do their own AI design or one one of
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the AI designs we did it doesn't matter
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there's literally unlimited number of AI
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designs you don't have to pay somebody
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$110,000 to to give you a rendering of a
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hot rod or something anymore and uh
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We've published probably about now 300
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AI designs on uh Facebook on my Facebook
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page my raline Facebook page so the
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object here with this new system is to
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use this as a Centerline tool and it was
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pretty easy to make it took about maybe
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two or three hours to to make all Mig
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welded together we have a carbide blade
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chopar Evolution I think it's Evolution
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chopar and uh just a simple little
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Lincoln MIG welder and I tacked it all
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together and Mark has welded it all up
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now and it's pretty sturdy and this will
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be the basis of basically hanging the
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wire form or supporting the wire form
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I'm trying to to simplify again as much
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as possible this process for inspiration
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I'm going to use scaglietti who was uh
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the one of the Premier Coach builders
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for Ferrari it was like right across the
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street from Ferrari started I think in
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1951 is as is coach building firm and it
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it was super convenient for Ferrari to
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bring a chassis over to scaglietti shop
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and they would have the chassis and what
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I've read that scaglietti didn't do
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drawings or anything didn't clude clay
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models he just got out some wire and
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started forming the wire into the shape
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that they want now these are all low
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production cars some of them might have
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gone as many as 20 cars or 10 cars but a
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lot of them were just race cars
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and these are the most iconic designs
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out there and the name scagliotti is
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still uh the Ferrari mainstate coach
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Builder now he died um I probably 10
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years ago or so and uh the name lives on
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under Ferrari still so we're doing a
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different system we're going to work off
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the center line and in this video we're
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not going to bend any wires we're going
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to start bending the wires in the next
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video to build something like this is
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the first line is the profile line right
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through the center so I'm going to have
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to dope out that profile line by just
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looking at that picture and we'll bend
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the wire and it doesn't have to be
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continuous it can be in pieces and we'll
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clamp it to here now the center line
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these are 1 in square and the center
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line is going to be a half inch off but
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it's not an issue right now but we'll
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we'll try to arrive at a really good
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profile line and this is a little short
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so the body will actually come out a
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little bit more uh we're using the
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overall dimensions of the GTV 6
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alphao we know because theyve published
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online the total length the total height
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the width the uh wheel base the track of
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the front the track of the wheels in the
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back so all that information will be
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transferred here and uh we'll probably
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get some Wheels set up here and we'll do
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that profile line down the center of the
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the hood and the roof and the and the
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windshield and the front and the back
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and we have to design the back because
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the back is not defined in this one
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picture and that's one of the
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shortcomings of uh AI design right now
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is that it doesn't give you the three
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views we've been able to get sometimes
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uh multiple views of the cars but it's
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kind of uh it doesn't happen every time
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if you ask it sometimes you might get it
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sometimes you might not but AI design is
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is improving and is evolving so fast
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it's very hard to predict how good it's
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going to get and when it's going to get
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that good but I believe that we're going
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to see uh CAD quality drawings where
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you'll have the three views or maybe
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even a revolve which will allow you to
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have all the information you don't have
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to do this autistic interpretation but I
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think the autistic interpretation is a
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lot of fun because I don't have to to be
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a slave to this design here I can make
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it even better and the way you make it
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better is you're going to put these
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lines up and you stand back 20 30 feet
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and you look at it and you have this
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picture and you see if you've got any
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errors in the in the uh execution of the
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lines and and you say well geez that'd
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be better if you move that a half an
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inch it's always a quarter of an inch or
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a half an inch or something like that it
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it's almost an organic
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process that has a life of its own once
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you start it's a lot of fun and we'll
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we'll concentrate on one side but as we
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make the wires we copy the wires onto a
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piece of cardboard and then we can bend
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the other side wires from those lines
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that we copied on the cardboard and then
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we're going to measure off of here so if
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we have a line in Space over here that's
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coming over like this defining the body
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we'll put a tube in here and and then
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we'll have that in and it'll tell you
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exactly where we have to attach the same
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wire which is already pre-bent according
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to the cardboard uh template that we
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made most of the wires are going to be
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wires these wheel wells openings this is
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generally flat from here to here but
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then it starts to roll under so you
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would make that and you could make the
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bend of the wire from here to here if
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you try to do the whole thing it becomes
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so I would bend it from here to here
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weld it there and then i' have another
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wire Going Under The Rocker and another
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going underneath the front so you try to
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simplify it as much as possible uh when
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we do the headlights we'll just come
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down with the aluminum skin we'll cut
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later and actually this body is a very
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rounded shaped body uh and it's it's it
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lends itself perfectly to the English
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wheel and the only real complex lexity
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that I can see most of this is really
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simple but it's an elegant design is
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that these grills and in the center
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Grill here protrude out a little bit
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they're sculpted out a little bit which
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gives them a nice prominence and and a
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good look to them um so and then uh as
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far as the trim work on it we're not
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going to deal with the Chrome plat or so
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we'll make all of that stuff out of
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stainless um these are probably barani
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wheels and these bar Wheels can with the
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tires and everything can be $5,000 a
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piece we're probably not going to do
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that the windshield is going to be an
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issue we got flat glass in the in the
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Side Glass we got a uh a a back glass
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there will be an issue but I'm hoping to
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develop a database of all the different
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companies in the world that will make
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windshields so that anybody wants to
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build a car be able to find the we'll
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find the lowest cost one
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and we'll find out the process of what
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they want for making a custom one-off
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windshield or a custom one-off glass
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this glass is easy flat glass you can
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get in just about any any City uh
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they'll have the safety glass for the
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windows on the side now we're going to
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components it had uh torsion bar
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suspension on my YouTube videos
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Everybody suggested I should switch to
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uh coil over Springs which I probably
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will do and that gives them a lot of
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nice easy adjustment for height
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adjustment and we're going to use the uh
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the the original uh rear end uh transa
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from the GTV all that stuff has to be
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rebuilt we'll clean it all up restore it
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and everything you know the whole
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process we're going to be videoing
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everything here now this is all I'm
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going to show today is just this simple
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little structure and how you can start
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this really complex problem for very
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little money I mean I I printed this
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picture out at Staples I think it was uh
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38 bucks or something to print that
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picture out and uh the steel content was
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uh I don't think more than $100 for this
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Center Line structure and then we're
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going to put a bunch of Outriggers on it
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that might be another 50 maybe
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$75 and then the wire itself is $36 I
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just bought some today for a 24t length
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of course the the prices go up and down
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and they're different in different parts
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of the country metal prices on steel was
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actually gone down I just bought a lot
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of brass for an architectural job I'm
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doing and the price of that went crazy
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the brass went really high so uh I'm
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going to try to do this so it's it's
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attainable by just about anybody that
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has the ambition to build their own car
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and to do it in the most e economical
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and simple way possible so I hope you
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like the video and next time we're going
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to be bending some wire I know
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everybody's ansy to see that wire bent
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they want to see the shape happen and
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then they want to see the panels formed
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and uh ideally we could have a chassis
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here uh that would be just like what
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skag lietti did but we we're not going
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to be able to do that but we know it's a
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known what we know what the the track is
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going to be we know what the wheelbase
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is going to be all that so we'll we'll
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be good and alling fly and the potential
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ointment is if I use all those gtv6
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dimensions and I don't like the
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Aesthetics I don't like the 20ft or 30
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foot look then I'm going to have to make
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some changes I maybe have to lengthen
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the wheelbase I might have to widen the
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track or whatever and that'll have some
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ramifications but I think we might be
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able to do it so I hope you enjoyed the
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video it's Ray from prochet paper
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Workshop in Charlton
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Massachusetts I hope you okay so I hope
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