The Miura project begins (Page 31/84)
Archie MAR 27, 10:56 PM
Here, Rob is building the plumbing manifold that will both to the top of the heater box & will route the tubes to the 3 defroster vents (on the left) & the 2 ball vents (on the right).



With the parts back in the car, it's starting to take shape....











Here we see the feed tubes glassed into the back of the air boxes behind the ball vents....



Here you can see the plumbing manifold bolted onto the top of the heater box in the car. Hard to believe but there is enough room behind this dash to route all 5 feed tubes from this manifold to the defroster & ball vents. (We're looking thru the center gage panel area in these pics)





More next week.

Archie
Fastback 86 MAR 27, 11:12 PM

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Originally posted by Erik:

http://picasaweb.google.com...#5105265307028627122

I did not know they made a targa Miura unless this is a custom. I notice no seals.. Anyway LOVE the interpretation of the real Miura interior




There was only one and it was a one-off custom. Mr Lamborghini did not want his purebred sports car watered down for rich playboys trying to tan while they were driving.
RUNDLC MAR 29, 12:09 AM
Amazing work my friend!
Erik MAR 29, 03:27 AM

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Originally posted by Fastback 86:


There was only one and it was a one-off custom. Mr Lamborghini did not want his purebred sports car watered down for rich playboys trying to tan while they were driving.



I'm sure if Dean Martin had wanted his son to be darker, it could have been accomplished via Ferruccio's instruction. Enzo would have been pissed
Erik MAR 29, 03:30 AM

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Originally posted by RUNDLC:

Amazing work my friend!



Viva Italia !
Archie APR 30, 03:46 PM
Since the last report, we've been working on several different areas of this car.

We were made aware that on this model of the Miura some cars had a glovebox door.

It was hard to find any real good pics of the door, so we had to come up with our own.

We used plastic tape to tape over the whole glovebox section & then we used that to make a door right off of the glovebox section. One thing for sure, that ensured that the door was going to be an exact fit.









We also built the overhead console. This time we didn't have anything around here that we could use as a starting point for fabricating it. So this one was built from scratch one pc. at a time.











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exoticse APR 30, 03:55 PM



I absolutely love watching you guys fabricate stuff.

Very cool.
Archie APR 30, 04:34 PM
We also are working on the front & rear bumper sections.

Neither one of the fiberglass bumper inserts actually fit into the openings in the body very well.

Also niether one of them was straight or even symetrical. So a lot of reglassing, grinding & shaping had to be done.

The rear bumper insert had to be reworked as noted above.... We also had to come up with a way to bolt it up into the car with hidden fasteners. that way it can be removed for painting etc. & reinstalled.









Also, the nose insert & grill opening had to be completely reworked to fit nicely together.















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Archie APR 30, 04:58 PM
To mount the parking lights we have, we had to mount them at a bit of an angle.

To do that we had to add some fiberglass to the back side of the bumper to form pockets for the lights.

We use some thin alum. sheet metal formed to the shape we needed. then we hot glued the metal into position then glassed over the metal.







As you can see, that method makes a nice little pocket to mount the light up into.







Then a little trimming off of the back side of the new opening & start fitting the light into the opening. You go to be careful to mount both light in exactly the same angle & location....







I'll show you the mounting brackets we made for the lights & bumper next time.

Archie

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whodeanie MAY 01, 11:54 AM
Looks great Archie