Putting in my roof

[sgo70]

Well I started to feel lazy after reading Dmw56's post about unfinished builds so I got going. (actually I was at work).

I went out ready to do some patch panels and ended up with a roof. I had a sheet of 20g that I was afraid I was gonna kink so I put it up on top of the car to keep it safe and look what happened. I guess the proper way to do this is to form it with a curve front to back and side to side but I don't have any way of doing this so I kinda winged it. I welded the rear and sides to get this bow in the front and then pie cut it down the center. I'm gonna see how well I can form it now but I might have to cut it again.

I gotta say this was NO FUN AT ALL, but it was really satisfying after about five hours of crappy work. I must have gone around the roof about ten times with the welder doing about an inch at a time. I'll have to say I found this more difficult than a chop.

Sean

 

[Old Gold]

Looks like it turned out pretty nice to me. Nice job!

 

[rustybeercan]

Nice Work!

Very nice work!

Beercan

 

[DougnDog]

thats tuff to do in any shop. looks like it turned out just fine to me nice job Doug

 

[sgo70]

Thanks for the kind words, I'm trying to get motivated to go grind it down but I'm pretty beat. Funny how it feels so small inside now, might have to put in a sun roof. I'm actually looking forward to the chop now, think I'll try to sandblast it first.

Sean

 

[mrbob]

Second Picture

Looks like you have A/C going on there, lol Nice work on the top it turned out great.

 

[dmw56]

Glad I got you motivated to work on your car. It looks good. Its hard to get roofs on like that when you got curves going in 2 directions. Now I'm the one that needs to get out there and get something done. Work on Bro' lets get it on the road!

 

[50Ford]

Looks great!

 

[Gastrick]

Nice going sgo70. Looks nice. That dang dmw56 has shamed everybody into doing something on their project.