Thanks for all the kind words...this build is the most fun I've had since first getting into cars back in '59 or so. (Several years before I could get my driving license) I may not be fast, but I'm gonna have one of the biggest grins out there.
Always loved the Altereds, Competition Coupes and Modified Roadsters. Guess it shows in the direction we're going. Don't see a wing in our future.
More visible progress this weekend...got the support frame and pushbar structure under the turtledeck stuck together. Here's a couple of pictures. Now I'll have a place to hang the battery where the weight will do some good.
Tom, not to much battery in the back or you may be on that bar for the first 60 feet. I really like your cage setup, it works well with the body layout. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, half a dozen of the heavy service Exides should do it. I like the way the turtle went on, looks great, and looks right.
A little stuff done this weekend, not much visible, but I did get the taillight mounted. In keeping with the bits and pieces from my past hobbies the taillight is from a vintage military truck. The bracket just had to have holes in it.
that taillight is cool. i see lots of clean simple functional looking work on your car. i can'thardly wait to see it finished and get a run report on it. keep up the good work.
I'm old, slow and broke, so things don't happen on the build as fast as I'd like, but I figure if I can do something each week, sooner or later I'll run out of things to do.
Tom, nice looking tail light setup, that should be good enough for the track guys to see. Holes are good, every few #'s counts. Keep moving forward.
Getting old sucks! With our weather being over 100 degrees, this old body just hasn't felt up to getting out in the shop and working on the car. Finally, the weather cools off a little and things are looking up. Then yesterday morning the wife has a doctors appointment for her normal annual checkup and while we are there they ask us if we want to get our flu shots. Sure. Been there done that for the last several years, no problem. This time I got the "side effects" reaction. Ached everywhere last night, didn't sleep for shit and slept most of today. Ah, the joys of retirement. BAH, HUMBUG!! Maybe tomorrow, I do have stuff out there I need to be doing. If I can just go back to feeling my "normal 65 years" I'll start doing it. Thanks for listening to my rant. I'll try and do better tomorrow.
Good rant! Hope you feel better. Funny isn't it? Retired with free time, but what you want to do isn't free. I'm all prepared for Test & Tune tomorrow and my 14 year old Standard Poodle has taken a turn for the worse. He can't get up unless I lift his front up first then his hind quarters. He growls at me but seems to know he must have help. I can't leave him all day so the racing is cancelled untill... I think I'll skip the flu shot this year.
Yeah Bob. Life is what happens to us while we are trying to do other stuff. Finally starting to feel human again and I guess a couple of days feeling crappy beats having the flu, but sometimes you have to wonder. As the line goes in the song, "if you want to hear God laugh tell him your plans". Seems like I have heard a lot of laughter the last few years.
Tom, glad to see you are feeling a little better. I need to get my shot this week, have had the same concerns about a bad reaction, but at my age and with my medical issues I need to get it done. You are right about not wanting to get out in the shop and work on the car when it's this hot. This has been a HOT-HOT July/Aug/Sept in the valley. Just keep doing a little and your right, You will finally run out of things to do and you will have the race car you wanted, less the 100 modifications you will make after you start racing it.
No major progress of late...been busy on other stuff, but should get back into it soon with something worth posting.
Finally...some visible progress! Got the steering shaft support brace in place today. Along with holding the shaft it will also serve as a switch panel. Picture #1: From the right rear. Picture #2: From the seat. Picture #3: From the left front with the wheel in place. Picture #4: Sitting in it and checking the fit. Got some other stuff done too, just not necessarily photo worthy. Did the final trimming and neatening on the lower edge of the bucket and got some braces and little stuff into the rear of the chassis. Hope to have more to show next week.
Tom the steering support looks nice and the cage, steering, seating looks like it fits you real well. It's a little nicer working out in the shop now that it's not 110 deg. Keep up the good work.
The work looks top notch. Did you bend up your own seat? Really like the shape of your cage. But more than anything, it's the smile that says it all.
I wish I had the equipment to have made the seat. Bought that one from Jegs, its an RCI 8440S and I rounded the top to make it look more vintage. Would have loved to put a vintage aircraft seat into it, but having worked on restorations of old aircraft I knew that to find a nice one would have been a big hit on the budget. I could have formed and riveted one, but the cost of the materials would have been near the cost of buying this one and the time it would have taken to build it, not having a break and shear, was better spent on other stuff that needed doing.
Tom, thanks for sending me the link to your thread, I had a quick flick through, that's one unusual car!. I will have a proper read later. Cheers, David
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