Reply to "body repair questions"

Gary,

Your obviously a skilled craftsman, fabricator and this is your baby so go for it. My only suggestion would be to build inside a tub that fits your car and the various items that you will need to form around. Or build a protective shield shaped in various flats out of foam core to protect your engine bay. Then use it to build the wire tub in flat shapes so you can form the mesh and not have to shape it. Straight forms are easy---complex shaping mesh is difficulty to do and will stretch and shrink the wire holes.

If I were building something like this, I would build an outer shape with hard corners on all of the edges that would be formed in maybe 1.5 x 14 gauge angle bent to fit---an entire structure shape in SS custom bent angles. Then cut the wire mesh to fit the flat angles on you bent framing and it's various shapes built to fit your car. Thinking of a framed cage approach. By the way, the picture is not my work.