fiberglass experts
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Burning Brakes
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From: belle plaine ks
fiberglass experts
Do we have any experts with fiberglass here on this forum? I know a guy who is elderly and retired who wants to sell me his corvette fiberglass molds. He has mostly hood molds [including the l-88]. I haven't been over to see the entire collection, but he is willing to sell them pretty reasonable. My only problem is I know nothing about fiberglass layup. However I'm trying to help this guy out disposing of them. I also have an ulterior motive of getting me an l-88 hood made from the mold[s] in the process. Anybody interested pm me. The molds are located in the midwest.
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Burning Brakes
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Oh yee of little faith
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Burning Brakes
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Why would you want molds if you know nothing about them? You sound like some of these dudes who go tearing stuff apart or want to paint stuff and don't have a clue as to what to do after they start something. 
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Burning Brakes
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read the first post
Originally Posted by nostgry
Why would you want molds if you know nothing about them? You sound like some of these dudes who go tearing stuff apart or want to paint stuff and don't have a clue as to what to do after they start something.
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Originally Posted by nostgry
Why would you want molds if you know nothing about them? You sound like some of these dudes who go tearing stuff apart or want to paint stuff and don't have a clue as to what to do after they start something.
If everybody had your train of thought, nobody would have ever made it to the moon.
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Burning Brakes
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pictures added
Originally Posted by tigers123
i wish i could try to do some hood's then go from there
Burning Brakes
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hmm...Did you get pics of the mold surfaces? If they have been outside for a long time they could be wasted. but they can be retooled, alot of effort required. You said he had C-5 molds? I would be interested as I am planning to build C-5 molds for carbon fiber race parts..Let me know what he wants to do with them.
Lets see, when are the Topeka scca nationals? Good excuse to go!
Lets see, when are the Topeka scca nationals? Good excuse to go!
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c5
The latest stuff he had was c4 stuff. I got a copy of his catalog of fiberglass parts, [from when he had his business] and he lost most of his molds to a building fire. What he has left is mostly hood molds.
This is a shot of inside an l-88 hood mold. He had several types of that particular hood as the early one was shorter due to the pop up wipers while the later one was longer. I might have said c5 in a previous post, but it was based on a bumper section [rear piece] I seen laying in the yard that I thought was off of a c5.
This is a shot of inside an l-88 hood mold. He had several types of that particular hood as the early one was shorter due to the pop up wipers while the later one was longer. I might have said c5 in a previous post, but it was based on a bumper section [rear piece] I seen laying in the yard that I thought was off of a c5.