Originally Posted by CooperMan
Originally Posted by NickCW
Originally Posted by James B W
- looking good Nick thumbs

I'm impressed with the additional nacelles/grilles.I think these were on the Le Mans car for brake cooling ? (but could be wrong...!)

I had thought of doing this a while back and even bought the cutter/punch, etc. but lost my bottle when it came to attacking the metalworkpale

It looks as though you managed to achieve the 'factory' look bevel/radiussed edge to the hole too; how was that achieved....?

Hope you are getting out and about and racking up some miles..... woohoo

James

Thanks James, you are correct they were on the Le Mans cars and GTN's for brake cooling.

Glad you noticed as it was a huge job to get the job done as per the factory. We had to remove the whole front end and I took the valance to a specialist vintage Aston Martin metal workers (this place builds entire DB5/6 shells from scratch hand beating the panels), after a lot of measuring (thanks to a handful of GTN owners on TM!) the holes were measured and cut, then the lips were hand formed/rolled ith a lip to take the rubber seal, and we bonded the fixings on as per photos from the original cars. I then sourced the grilles as NOS from Morgan, so they are the real deal so to speak.

Originally Posted by TheCustomer
lovely... and well done on sourcing the headlamps!

Thanks, it was an absolute nightmare sourcing them! But worth it in the end.

Originally Posted by CooperMan
Nice work Nick, some tiny LED running lights would look good incorporated into the new lower valance vents

I did think something ala the new Plus 6 in the headlamps would be nice, but would in effect need completely custom units made - which is sadly no DIY job.

Originally Posted by Alistair
Very nice work with the lower vents, it does give it a different look. I always liked them on the GTN's

Thanks Alistair. cheers
Nick, if I can bodge 'em into a Trad valance, I'm sure you could do it

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Very nice, and apologies I missed your response!

For those wanting closure and who may have missed it, I did sell the Aero.. hide but I bought another (of course), a GTN to replace it with.

Story of that, and the subsequent progress Here and Here.

Thanks all cheers