Building Miniature Car Bodies
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Leonard Wood's Workshop: Half Size Holley Carb and Ford 429 Hemi Project! (Wood Brothers Racing)
What happens here
Leonard proudly displays two half-scale car bodies of a 1971 Mercury, one in an unfinished steel state and the other as a completed aluminum shell. He explains the laborious process of hand-forming the body panels by shaping the metal over a full-size car, cutting, welding, and then refining the two halves to achieve perfect symmetry and detail.
Goal: Showcase the hand-fabrication of half-scale car bodies from metal.
Tools and materials
- Half-Scale 1971 Mercury Aluminum Body — Demonstrating the final result of intricate bodywork
- Half-Scale 1971 Mercury Steel Body — Showing the initial stages of metal forming
- Aluminum sheet metal — Raw material for the car body
- Steel sheet metal — Raw material for the car body
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