Japco body

[v8_ranch]

For anyone interested, I have a set available on the east coast that I likely won’t be using. It’s a complete japco kit that Mike had made several years ago. I decided to go another direction and leave the car as it was raced in 1978.

Sent you a PM Cole

[RustyBucket]

These are fenders with a WIDE FLARE ??
It they are "stock" looking, then --> PLEASE PM me!

Cam

[spl310]

These are fenders with a WIDE FLARE ??
It they are "stock" looking, then --> PLEASE PM me!

Cam

Very wide race car flares

[RustyBucket]

Nuts. Oh well, thanks of the note!

[Carfanatic86]

Hello rcmike
Are these kits still available?

[spl310]

Hello rcmike
Are these kits still available?

Cole has a set that he could sell...

[Carfanatic86]

Thanks

[RustyBucket]

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Well the first attempt was an expensive hot mess.
Spent WAY tooo much time reviewing the Youtube videos by people "WHO HAVE a CLUE"" , for motivation.
Many hours of labor to get the orignal metal fenders as "perfect" as possible.
Stunk up the garage ( and house) from the "tooling gel coat" and the multiple layers of fiberglass.
Despite the multiple coats of mold release wax and PVA coatings, i had mechanical "locks" which drove my nutz.
The fiberglass was then cut away and we are back to square one.

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[Bwk2000]

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Edison

[RustyBucket]

True but Tesla almost eat his lunch had Tesla lived longer.

[RustyBucket]

Ate (opsss)

[RustyBucket]

Got the fenders repaired from my hacking the the first attempted fiberglass debacle.

Got the holes plugged up with clay and now pondering whether to attempt to make a one piece plug mold or go for a multi part mold .

The impending rain stopped the progress for this weekend

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[preith]

Apologies for dragging up an old thread but I'm new to the forums and cannot PM anybody yet. Long time zcar owner floating the idea of building a roadster track car - would love to get my hands on this kit...
Much appreciated if RCMike can PM or email me with details, thanks!

[RustyBucket]

These photos are not from a JAPCO kit. They are photos of my attempt to make a fiber glass plug mold to than make fenders from.

Due to health and family events, I’m ashamed that the mold making progress has been in a holding pattern for a while

[preith]

These photos are not from a JAPCO kit. They are photos of my attempt to make a fiber glass plug mold to than make fenders from.

Due to health and family events, I’m ashamed that the mold making progress has been in a holding pattern for a while

Understood and I should have specified - I was referring to the original post by RCMike. Coincidentally, your photos drive home how time & labor intensive this stuff is (great effort BTW) and I'm more than happy to pay whatever premium is demanded by the producer . Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties, best of luck to you going forward.