{"id":6206,"date":"2013-08-20T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T00:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2015-02-18T12:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T17:53:33","slug":"1968-series-1-5-bonnet-restoration-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2013\/08\/1968-series-1-5-bonnet-restoration-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"1968 Series 1.5 Bonnet Restoration & Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, people – I’m back!<\/p>\n

Really sorry for the long hiatus on the blog – it has just been a VERY busy Summer and the blogging was the one thing that pretty much just had to go for a while.\u00a0 Doing the blogs takes time, and it was simply time that I didn’t have…\u00a0 I’ll try REAL hard to not let that happen again!<\/p>\n

I’ll start things out with a start-to-finish blog of a very rough 1968 Series 1.5 bonnet that we did over the Spring and Summer.\u00a0 We had originally discussed doing the shell as well, but based on our current backlog on shells (we squeezed the bonnet in but can’t do that on shells…), the owner elected to have the shell done at another shop in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

We had a chance to visit that shop and see their work and compare notes on the metalwork of these cars – I’ll go through that adventure next.\u00a0 But for now – here is the story of this bonnet – which came in as a pile of rough Series 1.5 parts in the back of a pickup truck, and left as a concours-level Series 1 covered-headlamp bonnet.<\/p>\n