Here are some interesting photos I ran across from the past year or so. Most were taken here, some in my travels… Enjoy!
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- Don’t freak out – this bonnet was getting all the respect it deserved – it’s a lost cause that does still have decent inner valances…
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- Same story here. But while some stuff does have to sit outside, I have a real issue with throwing away any E-Type panels. I just pulled this bonnet apart about 3 weeks ago to rob the original hardware out of it – the bolts, ovale and spring washers were restored and went into the ’61 welded-louver bonnet we just built.
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- It does look kind of cool, though, huh?
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- A project at a good friend’s shop.
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- This is a private shop I have visited several times – the owner does their own metal work but is an occasional customer and a friend. This place is crazy! – about 40 E-Type projects under one roof – and parts GALORE! I grew up around shops filled with E-Types – we parted them out, and so mountains of E-Type parts are something I’m used to. But for alot of people, 5 minutes inside this building and their head would just simply explode…
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- it just goes on and on…
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- …and on…
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- Don’t store your bonnet on edge in your garage for decades – this is what happens.
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- Donor being sent to give a Series 2 coupe a little cosmetic surgery in the behind… This was from a Series 1.5 2+2 shell I picked up. This piece, the roof, and the bulkhead were all that I could save – the rest is being re-born in the form of some Harbor Freight tools by now I assume…
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- Part of a Spring production run of bonnet support members.
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- Moving into the new shop – ’68 coupe, ’63 coupe, ’66 roadster.
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- ’63 roadster we restored this past Spring.
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- Now THAT’S a rusty center section – AAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! We can fix it…
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- Customer picking up a used Series 2 center section for their project.
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- Taken at the Spring E-Type gathering.
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- Now hiring…
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- Where there’s a will, there’s a way… The “lead sled” (’66 OTS currently on deck…) arrived in the middle of an ice storm, and when I saw the trailer pull up in front of the shop, I said right out loud, “There’s no way there’s an E-Type in there!”
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- I love Series 1 roadsters, but this is ridiculous! Right after this photo was taken, we signed the contract to build the new shop. The fiberglass body shell in the ceiling is an original Devin “widebody”. In August of 1990 (I think…), I met Bill Devin in the pits at a vintage race at Road Atlanta – I was there wrenching for Bill Terry. He said he believes it is the largest Devin shell made – he called it an “X” body… I’ve had that since I was 19 – someday I’ll get it assembled. I’m thinking tube frame, E-Type suspension, 1970 500 cubic-inch Cadillac, and an M-22 Muncie – I have all that stuff. Although, I may go with a nailhead Buick just to keep things dated to the early 60’s. Plan B is to give all that junk to my son when he’s 14 and just turn him loose on it like I was with my E-Type… 🙂
