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It's worth a quick reminder that the sides and rear of the tail section are securely fixed in position on the main tub to keep a stable datum whilst all this cutting is going on.
Here it is - all cut, reshaped, plated and Cleko'd - ready for a few square metres of glassfibre and a few litres or resin. 40mm height reduction may not seem much but if you compare the roof and rear window profile with an earlier picture you'll see the subtle difference in shape. Fortunately, the rear window is 3mm thick moulded Acrylic and was always supplied oversize for the builder to trim. It can be easily trimmed to the shape of the new reveal and will form to the new curvature - no problemo.
Simple paper templates that can be flipped over from side to side help to keep it all symetrical. That said, the length of one sill on the Foreman main tub moulding is 25mm more than the other - simply beacause the original Ferrair P4 from which the templates were taken was just that - 25mm longer on one side than the other. These were hand-built, aluminium bodies made in 1967 for just one race season. Absolute accuracy wasn't necessary. The old adage, 'If it looks right, it probably is right'. certainly applies here. self-explanitary
This time, I used a 100mm diameter flap disc on an angle grinder to 'scallop' the top surface of all the cuts - almost through to the underside.
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