The BMW 507 Ultimate Build Thread!!!

[mockingbird812]

This gonna be fun! You gotta be stoked Dave!!!!!

[Postsedan]

Looking forward to this German Build.....to bad the Brats in Texas Suck :-(
The kind of Brats that are soaked in real German Beer :-)

Cheers Dave

Dan

[A12pilot]

Oh, quite the contrary there, Danno! The town that about :30 minutes North of me, Granbury, has a real-deal German restaurant and the owner is from the Cologne area and imports the brats from Germany! The schnitzel, spatzle, kraut, wursts....all as authentic as can be! Come on down!

Yeah, it’ll be fun Sam! We’ll see if anyone would want to watch this build, so we’ll see if I continue the thread. Maybe an update here and there. I don’t want to bore anyone

I’ll be having the Crusty Cuda build going on shortly anyway, so that’ll be more interesting to watch and then see the results in person in 2020!

Cheers
Dave

[Postsedan]

Originally Posted by A12pilot

Oh, quite the contrary there, Danno! The town that about :30 minutes North of me, Granbury, has a real-deal German restaurant and the owner is from the Cologne area and imports the brats from Germany! The schnitzel, spatzle, kraut, wursts....all as authentic as can be! Come on down!

Yummy, that sounds like a future plan

Dan

[A12pilot]

I've decided to take the 507 project in a new and challenging direction that will be the ultimate test of my skills at fabrication, design, patience, pocket book, and thread posting skills!

My planification is to produce two body bucks and fabricate the body by hand. With factory dimensions, old blueprints, and access to a real 507 should I need a few up close measurements or pictures, i think my plan will work. So how am I gonna do this? What a great question!

Welp, last week I talked to a gentleman that runs a pretty large 3D scanning and design firm here in Ft. Worth about my project. I explained to him my overall idea, what body bucks are, how the whole project "should" work according to my feeble brain. His reaction wasn't one of laughter, or a massive rolling of the eyes, or a "Ha! Not gonna happen Super Daydreamin' Dave." I was met with not only enthusiasm for my project, but examples of people who have done exactly what I've done with motorcycles and a couple vintage Ferraris. And coincidentally, he started in the auto industry so he knew exactly what I was talking about the whole time and knows what I'll need to make the body bucks!

I'll be meeting with him again this week to talk prices and schedule the start of my project. He'll 3D scan a 1/18th scale model I have of the 507 and incorporate the blue print dimensions to scale up the model to true size. I'll confirm with the real 507 to verify everything and then have the 3D CAD file made with stations (slices, if you will) every 8". They'll be a few stations longitudinally
too. That file will be taken to a printer and the individual stations printed out. I'll take those and glue them to plywood and cut each one out. I could take them to a CNC guy and have them laser zap them, but haven't looked into a cost on that. Once that buck is built I'll fill in the gaps with foam, sculpt, then fill with polyester fill primer. I'll sand and prime that one for a true scale body that I can see. Basically, like a clay model that the auto manufacturers still use. Another buck will be built to hammer the metal on. Once the panel is formed I'll place on the finished buck to verify fitment. After all panels are made I'll weld them up respectively. After chassis fabrication, those sections will be welded to it creating the unibody. 507s were painted body color all over as one piece.

Cheap? No. Easy? Ha! But I'm pretty sure I can make it happen and keep everyone entertained along the way!

More to come....

Cheers
Dave

[markinnaples]

Wow, now that sounds like a project! Looking forward to seeing how all of this works as it is has really gotten interesting now, lol. Best of luck Dave.

[big gear head]

You don't have time for all of that. You have to get a Cuda ready for SCR!

[Dave Rifkin]

Seeing how fast Dave works it should be done just in time for some wind in the hair summer cruisin'

[Billohio]

As long as we are entertained, cost should be no object!

[m22mike]