Building a Gr4 replica

Mount finished and the car is back on the rotisserie

The inside of the frame originally has a couple of small reinforcements sitting behind the a-arm Mount that needed to be added

Both of them in place

Started on the repair-piece for the inner skin

Another angle

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Kristian,

You are doing an amazing job. I must say, I hope you are patterning all of these parts because it almost looks like you'll be able to construct a Pantera unibody from scratch by the time you're done! Thanks for posting your progress. It is great to see everything in such detail, so well lit and photographed.

Mark

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you'll be able to construct a Pantera unibody from scratch

Ha, Ha! I think not

The only parts that were patterned are the outer rockers and inner b-pillars.

I'm actually almost done, now working on the last section of bodywork. I "just" need to finish the left front, re-mount the fenders and then the chassis is ready for the painter.

It's going to be the original Gr4 red - anyone know what color that was? Maybe the same orange-red that the ´71-72 production panteras recieved??

It's weekend !! - time to move on ... where was I?

Started fabrication of the front wheelhouse frame piece. One of the more complex parts to fabricate.

Here it is almost finished

Test fitting

Finished welding in place

Another angle

Inner skin finished too

I decided to use the design of the early, early cars for the front box-structure reinforcement. This is one large bar, compared to the later smaller triangular pieces. This bar sits between the front a-arm mounts and also closes the box structure up somewhat, thus providing af stiffer and less flexphrone front subframe.

It's a true copy of the original design on #1267. I added several drains at the bottom. Here is the bar being fitted

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From the front.

Wow!
I love all your work. Your attention to detail is incredible. I'm curious,though, what do you do for a living? Are you a body man, engineer, mechanic, sheet metal worker?