Spyder
08-13-2006, 09:12 AM
I’ve been lurking around for a while, and I want to express my admiration for the skills and creativity on the HAMB. I hope that some day I can have something to contribute. Some of the stuff in the tech archives really blew me away! I am really into making stuff myself, because I have to, and because I never feel attached to something that someone else made. I think maybe you know what I mean. Like may folks I’ve been into VW’s and muscle cars.
I got really lucky with my model A. I got paid to take it away. My dad bought some land and the deal included an escrow of $1000 to clear out some “erosion control” junk cars. These were 3 prewar incomplete bullet-riddled cars. I off-roaded my ’65 mustang over there and stuffed the model A pieces in the back.
There wasn’t enough of the roof to use, so I had cut it off. I cut the car down the middle (right through the gauge panel), widened everything 3”and welded it back. I made some doors that were 6” longer, and shorted the quarters 7”. I reshaped the radiator shell a bit, and I have been trying to work out a grill.
When I had to move into a 1 bedroom apartment for a while, the car body got to stay in the bedroom with me and my wife. A 3rd floor apartment. Not many women are going to put up with that crap, and I know how lucky I am. It’s properly in a garage now. I have been banging away on it for 3 years, and it was mostly financed by canceling my cable tv, and bringing my lunch to work to save $.
I have tried to kept it low budget with an xj6 front suspension, and a Mark VIII rear. Ok, jag suspensions have been in rods for a log time, but there’s nothing old school about the rear suspension. I put together a frame from 2x4 tube.
I hope to have it on the road in a few months, like up to Austin in the Spring.
I got really lucky with my model A. I got paid to take it away. My dad bought some land and the deal included an escrow of $1000 to clear out some “erosion control” junk cars. These were 3 prewar incomplete bullet-riddled cars. I off-roaded my ’65 mustang over there and stuffed the model A pieces in the back.
There wasn’t enough of the roof to use, so I had cut it off. I cut the car down the middle (right through the gauge panel), widened everything 3”and welded it back. I made some doors that were 6” longer, and shorted the quarters 7”. I reshaped the radiator shell a bit, and I have been trying to work out a grill.
When I had to move into a 1 bedroom apartment for a while, the car body got to stay in the bedroom with me and my wife. A 3rd floor apartment. Not many women are going to put up with that crap, and I know how lucky I am. It’s properly in a garage now. I have been banging away on it for 3 years, and it was mostly financed by canceling my cable tv, and bringing my lunch to work to save $.
I have tried to kept it low budget with an xj6 front suspension, and a Mark VIII rear. Ok, jag suspensions have been in rods for a log time, but there’s nothing old school about the rear suspension. I put together a frame from 2x4 tube.
I hope to have it on the road in a few months, like up to Austin in the Spring.