Nice machine work
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Burning Brakes
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Nice machine work
Went to the car show at Scottsdale, Az Pavillion's Sat. It was 1st Sat of the month & therefore Corvette nite.
The normal "lot full of beautiful Vettes" kind of nite. But I saw this one gentleman's 2003, 50th Ann. vert. He had hood up & door propped open with a "show bar" He is a master tool & die maker, retired. Take a look at some of his handiwork w/stainless steel custom pieces for his car. He machined all of these pieces out of stainless steel blanks on a CNC machine he has at home, then polished & painted the relief's.
Door jamb plate on door, which is removed before shutting door & custom show bar prop
Custom doorsill's
Another view of doorsill
Intake manifold cover, throttle body cover, fresh air intake cover for passenger comp., power steering res cover, caps, fenderwell covers, etc.
Another view
The dress-up plate under front of hood lip
Battery box side
View of battery & fuse covers
He said it took 34 hrs alone to do the cowl piece for pass comp air intake. His workmanship is just great. I wish I had the knowledge, tools & skill to do stuff like this. He also had a cutom exhaust plate in the same style that he did. Hope you guys like seeing this stuff.
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That is amazing - the guy has some real talent. 
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My thoughts exactly.I'm trying to get my house sold so I can move back down to Phoenix. Grew up there. Spent many a Saturday night as a teenager at the Pavillions drooling over hot cars I couldn't afford. Can't wait to check it out again!
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We would get along great! I do the same type of work. I wish I had the money to get my own CNC machine at home, but I haven't gotten up the funds yet. They are not cheap, neither is the tooling for them, and neither is the 3 phase power that is required to run most of them...and the air supply....what did I leave out? lol
I have some here at work but it is hard to get in them to do "government" work, because they are always tied up with company stuff.
I have some here at work but it is hard to get in them to do "government" work, because they are always tied up with company stuff.
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Nice work.....but we get the point. It's a 50th AE car. 
