Excellent Design!
And for those who want a soft touch....
Go to your local Lowes or HomeDepot and get foam pipe insulation, the kind that is pre-cut and has the glue on the inside of the cuts. Would make for a softer landing on the body.

 

You will want to adjust the height and lower it some more so that you can do the bodywork on it. At that height you wont be able to get at a lot of it.
Nice job though.
HTH,
Todd

 

I think the height is so he can store things under it.
What would be cool is to make the height adjustable.

 

Thanks for the comments!

I'll add a second chapter when I get to body work that recycles the legs and braces to drop it down and make the body level, and maybe build something to hold the nose. I have a pic of someone's body working buck that had the nose on its own buck that wheeled up against the body.

I actually bough the pipe insulation and cut it to length but never installed it. I will add that option to the text, though!

 

That is a good looking body buck. I ended up suspending mine from the garage ceiling. It seemed like I did a majority of the body work on my roadster with the body on the body buck. Except for the seams on the coupe, the majority of the work I have had to do, I feel, required the body to be mounted on the frame. I had to add material to the area at the base of the quarter window to level it with the door, add to the leading edge/surface of the door to level it with the body/nose, secure the body to the mounts to tweek the windshield area. I think after all is fabricated and blocked, I would then paint on the buck.
Rob

 

I have built many body bucks and I realized early on that having wheels on all four corners was a big problem when doing work on it even with locking wheels. It was much easer to have wheels only on one end and lift the other like a wheelbarrow. I used fixed casters, I never had to lock them and it kept the buck from moving or swinging around when working on it. Just my two cents

Joe

 

Thanks. Excellent feedback, keep it coming!

 

Updates!! Painting Buck plans now available!

I updated the Coupe Body Buck plans that I shared last Fall with a set of painting bucks that I just finished building.

Once again, they might be a little bit of overkill and I can be a little wordy when writing instructions. Still, for the price it ain't too bad!

Enjoy, and comments are always welcome!



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