Building a Gr4 replica

I also filled in the openings for the seatbelt retracters to stiffen the inner rockers a little

Finished

Very nice!!!!


Ron

As always Push.... as always... all I can say is "nice work" man. I love your attention to detail and workmanship.
I'm jealous about the deck lid having already been modified.. in a sick way.. :-) I was dreaming last week about putting webers on 6001 but just couldn't get myself to cut a good deck lid. I like the way you did it. Almost can't tell. Never seen it done that way. Very cool.

She's going to be a sweet ride. Keep the posts coming. They keep me fired up

all the work is pure art!

the opening of the deck lid over the engine area looks like that should have been done origianlly to the car. can't wait to see the painted, then final results.

I bet that deck lid would look great with a modified mesh cover over stock air cleaner

Great idea on the decklid. I really like it. Will you modify the screen cover and make it a bit longer or are you just not going to use it? I guess it would have to be modified anyway to fit the webers.

Amazing craftsmanship! The filled-in retractor areas and modified hood look as if the factory did it! Nice work, enjoy the pictures & posts. Thank you.

Yes Rob, I probably wouldn't cut the decklid if it was uncut to begin with. I have the original uncut deck for the car in storage.

This decklid is a spare I bought that came of a race car (#1508). It actually was first used for Bonneville speed records, so it has had a cover of sorts mounted for aero reasons. There were lots of holes to fill. then it was briefly used for Gr4 racing in europe on one of the Danish Team witch Craft gr4 cars. Since it was more or less ruined, I may have gone a little overboard with the hole punching !!!

The idea of enlarging the entire opening is not mine - as mentioned, the Detomaso factory did this to the factory Gr4 cars, when they switched from running Holleys to Webers.

This car will be mostly for racing (I intend to do some historic racing under FIA rules), so there will be no engine cover

I first saw that decklid modification in Las Vegas about 10 years ago on another Weber equipped car. When I first viewed it I wondered how they had managed to avoid cutting the decklid like everyone else did. Only after comparing it to an adjacent car with a stock decklid did I realize what they had done. To make the alteration more invisible the owner had finished the opening with edging trim the same as a stock car.

I have always felt it was the most pleasing decklid modification to accommodate the Webbers. Congratulations on discovering it and putting it into play on your car.

I did not know that it had ever been done as a factory modification.

Larry

I kept my original decklid and put a fiberglass on mine. I cut the same opening, glued some hard plastic tubing, filled the radius with some fiberglass filler and smoothed it out. The rib really helped clean it up:

Very nice Work as always, Gary.

Here's a Picture of #2860, the Dubois car. The Changed opening is obvious, they probably installed a different deck skin.

Wow, just learned something here. Another secret of the Gp4 cars revealed.

It does look good without the notch though?

Great picture.

Very nice work Kristian ;-) How did it work out with your Headlight project? We might plan to come to the Devils Island on the 6th if the hangover is not too bad after christmas Lunch with Friends on the 5th.............

Small update. Car has been sitting waiting for a while now. The paint shop is pretty busy with winter fender-benders, so I'll have to wait a little more.
Decided to do some of the paint preb myself, so armed with lots of materials from the paintshop I spend quite some time getting the finish to my liking.
The car was basically straight to begin with so it just needed a thin coat of primer and filler. 2-3 rounds of filler and bloksanding and it's ready for the final Work at the paintshop.
One of the paint supplyers came up with some paint samples based on the original 71/72 paint codes for the red, but I wasn't sure if they are right (seemed too dark), so he's right now analyzing some remains of the original 71 red on an old headlight bucket I had lying around. It's kind of orange-red with a brownish tone.

Wasn't happy with the alignment of one of the flares so had to move it a Little - drilling new holes and welding the old ones shut

Deck still need some work

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Lookin good Push. Was wondering when I'd see some updates...

That rear view is sick..! Holy crap, can't wait to see it with the rubber in the wells.

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That rear view is sick..! Holy crap, can't wait to see it with the rubber in the wells.

Funny that you should mention that - I had that same urge some time ago

awesome...
Ok, so not to get too demanding...but how about both tires on for that full rear shot like the above pic. Pleeeeeeze...