Another 6 Emerging from the Black Hole Slowly coming back to Earth, Now made it to Spain the journey continues Options

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This factory 6 managed to escape the forces pulling it into a black hole never to be seen again. It was not without every ounce of thrust it could muster and it was not without suffering a considerable amount of damage. The crew patched it back together the best they could with primitive tools and scrap they found floating in space. fortunately they crash landed in easy reach of the secret facility known as Area51Werks. The owner is someone you may or may not know. Juergen Lives in Washington. The car will eventually end up on the other side of the pond. But for now it is on it's way to the final stages of completion. It was not like this in the beginning....

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I received a door that was delivered from the tail of a comet. Early observations sent streaming thru to me by email showed promise. Bill Brunner was very helpful in getting this candidate to Area 51 Werks. The door was as stated and shown in the photos and the price was fair. Once it arrived it hit the operating table. Here is the process of preping for a new life.

Several layers of foriegn matter were removed to expose what was suspected had occurred at the hands of early space pioneers with skills and abliity to pilot a ship but no working knowledge of repairing astroid damage.


The California Rivets hanging through the back side of the skin were exposed and welded closed. The dent was pulled by tacking tig rod to the surface and using light pressure while tapping on the surface to lift the dents.




Several hours were spent with a shrinking disc and other tools to work out the damage. The horizontal marks are low spots and the vertical marks are high spots.



There were a couple reasons the inner frame was removed. As you can see there was a big chunk hacked out of the door for some strange addition for the reproduction of sound as well as cracks from metal fatigue. Once this section was removed access to the outer skin repair were made much easier.



This repair section came from the original door that came with the car.


This is the test fit and trim ready to tig back in. There is still work to be completed to clean up the inside of the door to accept epoxy but were are finally nearing the end.



I have 5 left doors here and this is the best one.