Bonnet mouth Bondo We unbolted the top section and the lower section of bonnet in order to finish some last bits of welding of a tab and to bang forward the upper and lower “lips” of the mouth. These sections had been reinforced or completely replaced with fresh metal, and so the stuff was difficult Read more about May 2003 – Bonnet, part 4[…]
Bonnet Metal Reassembled The goal for the week and the weekend was to get the metalwork on the bonnet to the point where we could put the external sections together. We needed to get to that point in order to move toward the more detailed banging and pushing. We have indeed come a long way Read more about May 2003 – Bonnet, part 3[…]
Bonnet lower section I took a closer look at the bonnet’s lower section, which makes up the lower half of the “mouth.” This section is the attachment point for the whole bonnet as well as the section where the electrical system connects to the bonnet. The hinge attachments had some stress damage and rust that Read more about April 2003 – Bonnet, part 2[…]
That Incredible Bonnet As one of the books I’ve read puts it, “The E-type’s remarkable bonnet, stylistically and by volume, formed fully one-third of the whole car and was the most beautifully sculpted aspect of the overall design” (Nigel Thorley, Jaguar E-Type: A Celebration of the World’s Favorite ’60s Icon. Sparkford, UK: Haynes Publishing, 2001, Read more about March 2003 – Bonnet, part 1[…]