AC Bristol Body Restoration.
Our projects continue with an AC Bristol body restoration demonstrating use of hammer forms and English wheel and skills in shaping and metal finishing.
Damaged AC Bristol set up for preliminary measuring in preparation for body restoration.
AC Bristol body restoration showing inside view of newly fabricated forward tubular structure with original skin fitted.
This is a wooden hammer form for creating nose panel with grill in the AC Bristol body restoration.
AC Bristol body restoration highlighting newly formed aluminum panel in hammer form.
Grill fitted into newly formed panel of AC Bristol body restoration.
Hammer form in AC Bristol body restoration used to create headlamp sections.
Shaping new upper nose panel on English wheel for AC Bristol body restoration.
Right fender trimmed and prepared for new headlamp section in process of AC Bristol body restoration.
AC Bristol body restoration showing newly fabricated right headlamp section welded into position.
Newly fabricated right and left headlamp sections welded and metal finished in AC Bristol body restoration.
Fitting newly fabricated forward nose section in AC Bristol body restoration.
AC Bristol body restoration continues showing new nose section with grill fitted into opening.
Newly fabricated forward nose section welded into position in AC Bristol body restoration.
Newly welded section metal finished in AC Bristol body restoration.
Test fitting upper nose panel during shape development of AC Bristol body restoration.