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I did an internship at a kit car company many years ago, we took the car we built to a show and they had live demos of them forming panels for a aluminium cobra, i think it was Kirkham (which i think is part of Hawk who do the Stratos kits)
they were unbelievably well made full ally bodies, super nice.
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I did an internship at a kit car company many years ago, we took the car we built to a show and they had live demos of them forming panels for a aluminium cobra, i think it was Kirkham (which i think is part of Hawk who do the Stratos kits)
they were unbelievably well made full ally bodies, super nice.
The place I used to get my custom exhausts made - Custom Fabrications in Attleborough in Norfolk - used to do custom alloy bodies for repairs and custom builds (and may well still do so). Watching those guys gas weld thin aluminium sheets was quite something. No distortion, barely any work needed to finish the weld, and they would do it while making rude comments about whatever I'd brought in.
Brommers
Not necessarily. There are some very good alloy bodied replicas, particularly C-types and Cobras, and some genuine exotica had GRP bodies such as the early 308GTBs, the GRP bodied ones being more sought-after than the later steel ones due to being lighter and rarer.