Thread: The Roofus Special

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Another ROOF ! ...and a jaguar roof to boot! A 1979 Jaguar XJS to be specific.

It was a donor jag that was bought for the front and rear suspensions. I had planned on making fender skirts out of the roof.



Cut down the middle like I did the tail.

Time to cut. And bend up some new angles. (I made lots of scrap, but got lots of practice with the shrinker)









It looks like crap...too square. Does not flow with the rest of the car.

It fits the curve front to back pretty well though.

On to plan C

The cowl top needed a bigger radius. Time to make more angle pieces.

I dropped the roof panel down. Instead of trying to make the XJS roof make the whole bend, I decided to only make it do part of the bend. I positioned it down lower on the car.

Not 100% sure on the peaks. The flat top dash was definetly wrong though.





The "hood" will butt up to the cowl. Curves actuallly match up pretty good.



(3 of the four firetruck are visible in this pic)



Cowl top will be filled in with cadillac door sheetmetal.

In the pics, the red panel looks really flat. In real life, it has a decent amount of shape and follows the curve of the framework fairly well.

On the subject of curves, do you guys think that the hood and cowl should be peaked, curved, or flat down the center?

I'm kinda up in the air over this one.