Tony.. WTF?!
..Surely a ride will happen
.. truth be told I'm not sure if I'm ready to let it go.. maybe... the soonest would be mid April this year; surely I'll have it over at C&C in AG before then..
Eric.. I will have a link when it's time for the 1800.. I'm a big fan of Bring A Trailer, so I will likely take it there.. For the Berk, yes, the plan has always been to build 2.. I already have a white 59 Berk body and donor VFR800, but I might change it up and build that car with a DCT VFR1200.. not sure yet.. At any rate, once this first Berk is up and in service, I think I'm going to wait a year or two before I start the next thing.. I've been building non stop for several years now, and I'm getting closer to retirement 9when I can REALLY get some build time in!), so I think maybe I'll ease up on the fab and go play with Berk #1 for awhile, and also do some offroad goofing around, then come back to the build table once I get bored of that. Berk #1 will still command a lot of my time for the next year or so (2021)..
On the Berk fiberglass.. yes, this first round of glasswork has had me using the 'heavy build' chop strand that's epoxy compatible, but I think it's overkill.. the epoxy is so thick, and the chop strand is some heavy duty stuff. I think I'll put it in the 'high stress' areas, and eventually switch over to some lighter chop strand and polyester resin for the easy work of filling holes and the like. At this point I think my plan is to just be sure I don't layer the polyester over this epoxy work.. I'll keep the types separate on the car..
As for those dash to fender seams, I might split those to aid in getting the nose piece on the car to better align with the punt section it mates to, and once it's all aligned and mocked together in place, then go in and glass things back together to get a better fit than what I have now.
--ccrunner
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Dean
1972 Honda N600 Restomod "ccrunner's N600 VFR800 repower"
1963 Volvo P1800 Restomod
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