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Project Overview – Webasto Roof

This car is a VERY solid example of a Series 1.5 2+2.  The car is being pupose built for its French adventure, and that includes installation of a Webasto sunroof, and conversion to a 4-speed transmission.  Since we’re doing that … Continue reading

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Project Overview

This car is not at the shop yet, it’s due to arrive in 3 days.  However, I’m basically buried once it does, and with the current work plus the new building going up, I wanted to at least get this … Continue reading

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Tear-down

The first order of business was to pull the bonnet apart.  This also gave me back some much-needed space – which is at a premuim until the new shop is completed! There weren’t any big surprises here – the underside … Continue reading

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Project Overview

I went to look at this E-Type in it’s current shop to give my opinion and an estimate on the project.  The car was well stripped down when I arrived, and I was able to get a good view of … Continue reading

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Headlamp bucket repair

We’ve started the project by getting things organized and photographed, and by beginning to strip some of the small components.  While not necessary to complete the bonnet conversion, the headlamp buckets were included so that some dents could be removed. In … Continue reading

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Project overview and early bonnet history

This project is a conversion of an original Series 1 bonnet to 1961 “welded-louver” specs for a VERY early LHD Coupe that lost it’s original bonnet somewhere along the way.  For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the … Continue reading

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Welcome to Monocoque Metalworks

Our Blogs are currently under construction – but we’re VERY CLOSE!  Check back in a few days for lots of photos and stories about the E-Type body shells, bonnets, and components we are currently restoring in our shop!

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Chapter 6 – Chuck’s Big Secret

My Jag had a small-block Chevy in it – and it still does.  There – I’ve said it… Now don’t freak out – this was inevitable, as you’ll see, and it wasn’t my idea either.  I have a beautiful ’67 … Continue reading

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Chapter 5 – American Graffiti

So we brought the Jag home on a Tuesday night in early May of 1986. Our house was in your basic suburban development – NOT the kind of place you worked on cars like this…  The house was built on … Continue reading

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Chapter 4 – Love at first sight?…

I’ve spent the past few weeks since the last post of this saga thinking about how to best describe what happened next – without seeming overly melodramatic that is… We had plans to pick up “the Jag” (as it was … Continue reading

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Chapter 3 – Bab’s Brainstorm

“Bab” is my father. When I first started talking, I called him “Babby” instead of daddy, and that just kind of stuck. Eventually, I guess I got too old for that, and so it got shortened to “Bab”… It sounds … Continue reading

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Chapter 2 – OK, I’m Interested…

So like I said, I really didn’t have any interest in cars…  Then, as luck would have it, I became friends with a guy who did – Tom Walsh. Tom Walsh was older than me – I want to say … Continue reading

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Chapter 1 – I want a Jeep…

The whole thing started on a cold Winter night alot like tonight – actually, maybe it goes back even farther than that… My parents were born and raised in New Castle County, Delaware.  My father graduated from Newark High School … Continue reading

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