Coupe Bonneville 59 in France

Your the man JP!!!!!!!!

Reconstruction work starts here .

Awesome work! I'm in the process of replacing that section myself. Recreating the fender mount area looks much easier your way!

Thank you,
If you want, I can give you all dimensions (mm).
I made templates for each piece.

Communicates me your email and I will privately shipments dimensions.

I'm not sure your Bonneville and my Catalina would be the same but I'd love to look at the information you have. That area on my Catalina was all but gone so I was doing my best to guess what was missing. I'll be posting some pics shortly. I still have the driver's side to do at some point and I'm sure your info will help.

Michael

Michayos wrote:

I'm not sure your Bonneville and my Catalina would be the same but I'd love to look at the information you have.  That area on my Catalina was all but gone so I was doing my best to guess what was missing.  I'll be posting some pics shortly.  I still have the driver's side to do at some point and I'm sure your info will help.

Michael

No problem, the fender brackets on the 4-door and 2-door are identical.
I sent you the dimensions and photos.

Wow! Great job!!! Thanks for all the pictures. I'm sure they will help.

Thank you .

Here afterwards.

That work is progressing:

Work is progressing.































Chevrolet patch is not identical to Pontiac.

Yet again all I can say is WOW! You've been busy. I finally got started on my car again last weekend.

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All I can say is WOW! That's some serious work you're doing to this car. Awesome stuff showing all the details needed to complete this restoration, and thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see the finishing result, so keep up the good work!

Thanks for the compliment.
I prefer to post the pictures of the progress. Because I do not speak your language well.
I try to do the best possible, but I'm not a professional. So my methods are not always the best.
I share this reconstruction with pleasure and if I can inform you, it will be with great pleasure.

They really need talent like that in the Warbird restoration community. Plenty of World War II aircraft awaiting resto. once the Pontiac done JP!

Holy cow manure! Looking bad ass. I wish I was that good with sheetmetal

Holy cow manure! Looking bad ass. I wish I was that good with sheetmetal

$hit, I wish I was that good at even posting pictures!

thank you very much guys, your compliments are pleasures.

Here is a link to a big file. On the restoration of this car.
Sorry, text in French.

https://1drv.ms/w/s!AgeN1Cic9-1NvRuLNSHapsnKCm5e

The news...

The work is progressing well, I would like to devote more time. But the little family and my job take me a lot of time.
The pictures explain much better than me.


The right side:







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The rear:



Here I am at the beginning of the work, because I could not find an interesting solution to fix the body on the pivoting support.

I made openings on the back skirt, this will only be two extra holes to close. But it is a very advantageous solution for the rest of the work.

Again...

The work progresses smoothly, but the result is correct. I spend a lot of time to reproduce identical to those of origin.

Sorry, I post a lot of photos because my language is not very correct.
The pictures are worth a thousand words.

















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Hello! I love to watch the photos of your bodywork, it is a fantastic work you are doing. I know how much time it takes to do it right, and your photos inspire me to improve my working methods, although I dont think that I can ever reach your level. Keep up the good work, I really enjoy watching it!