G-506 - Restoration - Brasil

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Re: G-506 - Restoration - Brasil

Post by Roberto Amboni » Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:58 am

When I bought the Chevrolet, it came with the grille of the later models. Last year I received the visit of a friend, colonel of the reserve of the Brazilian Army, who lives 200 miles from my city, which also collects military vehicles. I talked about the Chevrolet restoration process and that there were still a few pieces missing for his correct year, one of them the serpentine grille. I was surprised when he told me that he had a serpentine grille on the wall of his garage. I received the same gift to complete the restoration correctly.
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Re: G-506 - Restoration - Brasil

Post by gentrysgarage » Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:11 pm

Hi Roberto, the pictures didn't post only before
anxious to see the transformation!
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Post by Roberto Amboni » Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:27 pm

Thank you for the warning. I think there was an error copying the address of the images.
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Post by kelley » Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:45 pm

Looks great Roberto,
Give Julio a call and ask him to post a few pics.
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Post by Roberto Amboni » Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:03 pm

Kelley, I just sent a print of your message to him.
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Post by Roberto Amboni » Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:38 pm

Another part that was reproduced from photos here of the forum was the external mirror support. With the hinge measures and through mathematical rules, I made a cardboard model. From a steel plate I tried to cut it myself, but without success.

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After analyzing the problem of the cut of the sheet of steel, I opted to use a strip of steel in the measure of the mold. I cut the small parts and then joined them with welds. Of course, it required some adjustments until you got the final result. It was not as elegant as the original part, but I'll have time to find one.
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Post by kelley » Sat Oct 21, 2017 3:04 pm

Excellent work Roberto,
Considering that all you had were pictures to go by, you did a great job.
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Re: G-506 - Restoration - Brasil

Post by retro-roco » Sat Oct 21, 2017 6:07 pm

Very nice Roberto!
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Post by Roberto Amboni » Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:18 am

The internal rearview mirror holder is much simpler to manufacture. As previously commented everything was done based on photos from this forum.

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Re: G-506 - Restoration - Brasil

Post by rixm37 » Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:42 pm

Your rear view mirror looks great . I dropped mine and broke it ARGH......


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