Done with the spare tire mount. Put the back wheels on the car. Dropped the whole rear section of the car on a bit of sharp metal.

Yeah pretty easy. I needed my wife’s expertise (and sewing machine) for the back corners; she installed some elastic gathers there and pie-sewed the edges.You can see what needs doing just by draping the curtain over the cockpit. I installed the snaps first and then had her sew.

Overkill: I also sacrificed a chamois cloth and had Karen sew strips…[Read more]

BOTH SHOULDERS?

Not all the same day I hope? And also hope you can spring for the bionic “forklift strength” upgrade.

Latest update (from Friday) on the Spyder build.

I made mine out of a Union Jack shower curtain. No zipper, and really light-weight but good for keeping the dew out overnight during spring shows, and keeping prying eyes (and spring showers) out if I need to park her somewhere for a few hours. Including the snaps and a snap installation kit I think I have $40 in the thing, and mine cost more than…[Read more]

Can’t tell from this angle, but would the fan you need fit behind the grill after you push the rad a half inch forward? And will the rad still fit inside the grill shell? I wonder if a shorter water pump might not be the easier solution….

Adding lightness…

It’s flux wire and it’s a new (to me) unit. I’ll get it dialed-in, don’t worry.

In my experience, tarps hammock in the rain and then leak. To make a leak-resistant (note I don’t say “leak-proof”) tarp system you have to tent them in a A-frame configuration. Any loose area that’s even slightly near horizontal will become a rain collector and then leak.

Five hours in the shop today and I almost made a new cross bar.

Wait till I get into the actual build, right?

Good news!

Look forward to following your car-building adventure.

BTW, Jack, here’s what your engine should look like (sans the cone air filters, of course!)

Spare tire mount is coming along.

Mine is “boxes that stuff came in, Ver. 1.1.”

Dang. Try this one.

How the shifter works with the spare tire

Bending metal, boys. All in the service of making the spare tire fit just right.

Transaxle is back.

Also did a guide coat on the inner clam last night. Not bad, but still needs a full sand-down and maybe one or two more trips with the filler.

By the way, those irregular little humps running in the valleys are bogus “weld fillets,” which are period-correct and will remain.