The Metal Surgeon's Project Photos
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This document provides an overview of various automotive restoration projects completed by The Metal Surgeon, including custom fabrication work on vehicles like a Sunbeam Tiger, Mercedes UNIMOG, Porsche 356, Ferrari PF Cabriolet, and Chevrolet truck. Details are given on repairs to body panels, rebuilding of components, and hand crafting of replacement parts to restore each vehicle's appearance and function.
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- 1. '32 Ford Custom Lengthened Hood and Louvered Sides
- 2. Sunbeam Tiger – Custom Hood Scoop
- 3. Jig created to fab scoop from existing hood material
- 4. Hand chasing scoop into hood
- 6. Creating the lip of the hood scoop
- 7. Custom hood scoop for Sunbeam Tiger
- 8. Mercedes UNIMOG – Complete rear end fabrication
- 10. Fabrication of the side walls and inner structure. Designed by The Metal Surgeon.
- 12. Handmade floor
- 13. Mercedes UNIMOG – complete rear fabrication
- 15. 1953 Porsche 356
- 18. 1964 Porsche 356C – before restoration
- 19. 1964 Porsche 356C – after media blasting
- 20. Before restoration – front end damage
- 21. Front clip tear down
- 22. Rear of front fender repaired and grafted into front clip seamlessly
- 23. Front clip grafted into right and fender
- 25. 356 in paint
- 26. Metal Finishing
- 28. Build Progress
- 30. 31 Austin - before
- 31. '31 American Austin – Ready for paint!
- 35. 1959 Triumph TR3 – Grill before restoration
- 38. Rear corner previously hit – ill fitting license plate panel
- 39. Damaged area cut away
- 40. Completed restoration of rear end – including lead work
- 42. 1957 Mercedes 300SL – headlight area before restoration
- 43. Headlight housing hand fabricated from new sheet metal
- 48. Rebuild of the right fender begins
- 49. Wheeling up a new fender trim
- 50. '67 Mercedes 300SL - fender and trim restoration in progress
- 51. Fender trim offered up to newly restored fender
- 52. 300SL Complete front end rebuild
- 54. 1959 Porsche 356A – poorly fixed rear end
- 56. Trunk area leaded to perfect gaps
- 57. 1960 Ferrari PF Cabriolet – before restoration
- 58. Ferrari PF Cab – after media blasting
- 61. Recreated hard to find fender splash pan for Ferrari
- 62. Handmade inner and outer rocker assembly
- 63. Fitting rocker assembly to Ferrari
- 64. Measuring system designed by The Metal Surgeon
- 65. Tail light housing rebuild – to correct asymmetry uncovered by measuring box
- 66. Tail light housing grafted into Ferrari PF Cab body
- 67. Handcrafted metal work ready to graft in to the Ferrari
- 68. 1929 and 1932 Ford Dashboards – Custom made to fit Auburn style instrument panels Insert panels available from Doc's Kustom
- 69. Short Wheel Base (SWB) Ferrari 250GT
- 70. SWB Ferrari 250GT – Handmade bumper
- 71. Crisp sharp lines ready for chrome work
- 73. 1938 Chevrolet Truck for Pepsi before tear down
- 74. Lower grille structure showing decay
- 75. Freshly made lower grille panel
- 76. Custom dash and interior. Air ride suspension, CD player and navigation, Air conditioning, and Power windows.
- 78. Custom Pepsi tr uck in progress
- 79. Custom running boards to meet bed and rear fenders with no gaps before
- 81. Porsche 914 Conversion to a 914-6 GT
- 82. Rear qua rter panel damage
- 83. Re ar quarter removed
- 84. Freshly mad e quarter grafted in
- 85. Grafted in new fender flare
- 86. Know what's un der your paint...
- 87. Handmade tooling
- 88. 901 Porsche new trunk lid skin
- 89. Porsche 901 Fender Support Panel