Sorry to hear, Dan and Al. For the rest of you: Carlisle is back this year, and we’re moving the hotel back to the Mechanicsville Courtyard by Marriott. There is a thread here which will be updated tonight with the new information. There will be more later.

Slick!

Hope that solves it.

It does.

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Hey Jeff.

Many thanks, Stephen.

Carlisle is scheduled for the normal weekend. The Speedster Owners Club is pondering out next move. Planning to come to a decision early March.

I’m leaning yes, but much depends on the vaccine rollout and how the mutations carry. This thing is in no way slowing down, and half a million dead is nothing to, well, sneeze at.

I always wanted to see a turbo’d one of these. Even nagged Bill to do that instead of throwing the 302 in his. Hope I can see this one up close in a few months!

BTW I did finish the tonneau (except for paint) and hung out my shingle offering to make these for others.

My sheet supplier was out of .050 thickness 5052 aluminum sheet so I’ll make the next one out of .040 (18 gauge) and see how that goes.

Hemmings, CT listing.

Non-update update: Merklin is still waiting to hear from the hotel. When we left it last year they agreed to move all reservations up as needed, but nothing is as-yet confirmed. I will let everyone know when I know.

Assuming we still have a functioning republic.

Happy 2021 to all within earshot.

Building them is only half the fun, Todd! When you’re done, remember to enjoy the ride for a while.

Gotta keep the faith. MG TDr forever!

Update:

Yeah, eventually I gotta up my game.

Making an aluminum half tonneau for the Spyder out of a scrap piece of .050 5052.

CAD was first…

Here’s a shot of the real-deal part I lifted from Type550.com:

and as installed on the car I’m copying:

I made a second model out of masonite and them traced it on some scrap lumber I had in a rack hanging from the ceiling. Some of this…[Read more]

Looking good. I just spent the day welding and, man…yours are better.