Love it.

Basically that is absolute madness.

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Repeat: you do not need wider tires to go straight faster, more smoothly and with greater precision. Wider tires help in doing all these things while going around corners. Going straight requires (along with good ball joints, tie rod ends, etc) more positive caster. That is all.

Jack! Put new 165/15s on it. Also install a set of caster shims. They cost about $10. Put them on the Lowe beam, between the beam and the frame head. Then have the car aligned with 1/8 toe in and about 1 degree of negative camber. If it still wanders put a second set of caster shims in, and spring for the long bolt kit.

Mary. I hope we can meet you in Carlisle in a month or so.

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Paint is expensive & the modern urethane and epoxy mixes are very good, fast-drying and a bit tricky to work with. All car paint shops shoot almost exclusively urethane now, I am told. No one messes with acrylics or lacquer. 

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dang. Work blows. 

Always something. How did that original style top come out, after all?

Roy, I know you’re an old salt, but you sure you weren’t also a Sopwith Camel pilot in the Big War?

Every light needs power and ground.Power through the switch, usually. (Horn and some indicator lights excepted)Big power draws ought to go through relays.Almost every + wire ought to be fused.Once you have the starter, coil, and generator/ alternator hooked up (gen has the key indicator light that makes it work), then everything else is as above,…[Read more]

A lot of the Speedster guys got low numbers as well. Sounds like it’d be a chore to line up the whole group numerically but it might be cool.

WOW! That does look purposeful.

Share the love, Jack! Glad you found her (him?) a good new home. 

Mighty Mouse, yes

Well, turns out that by a lot of work and a little luck, I have transformed Bridget into a classic barn find. Check it out.

Ordered: New German MC, new inner and outer wheel bearings for the disks (they don’t appear to be in the kit and I don’t want to have to knock them out of the old drum setup) and four new front ball joints for when I can find someone with a good press who isn’t a hammerhead. 

That will have to be the way, I think. Cip1 here I come.

OK, here’s the update. Progress, I think. 

Welcome to the group, Tom. A well-sorted TD replica is a rare and wonderful find.