Now, the front isn't done, I'll admit. It still needs some refinement & some smoothing in certain places, but it's far enough that I felt I should move to another part of the car and come back to do the final touches. Could be a mistake, could be smart...not sure. E-mail me if u have an opinion, or let me know on twitter. Regardless, I made a trip to the shop & whipped out the ol' tape measure and angle finder and went to town.

If you read about how I measured the front of the car you know what a process that was. I went a different direction with the rear of the car. For the front of the car I had the body taped into 6" squares and measured every intersection. The reason I did this was that the original prints from Shelby were not very detailed in that area. The rear of the car, however, doesn't have as many curves and details as the front. I will be able to use the sections from the prints for this section. The measurements I needed were to locate the print sections in relation to the front clip. I basically just measured the center-line of the car from the front of the windscreen back to the rear of the car. I also measured the door details & windscreen to hopefully add them in next time I work on the car.

So the car progresses, I'm hoping to get this done as soon as I can, because along with this project I also have a little thing called a Senior Project that has to be done... apparently it's a big deal around here. My senior project is going to be on using simulation software on parts and designs, so maybe I will be able to run some Computational Fluid Dynamics on the car, see how the air flows around the body. I bet Pete Brock & Carrol Shelby would have loved to have that capability back in the 60's when they were building the car. 

Next up for the coupe will be trying to model the windscreen and doors. I have most of the dimensions I need for them so hopefully it will go smoothly...doubt it.

Side Note: I made some updates to my main website. Check it out here. If you enjoy this project, check out the F1 Nose I modeled in SolidWorks. I printed it on the school's Zcorp 310 3D printer, it looks pretty slick but the wing is very fragile. A full album of pictures of the prototype can be seen here.