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very cool will
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Great progress, is it your intention to race her? Not sure where you find the time with everything else, nice when a plan comes together.
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Some nice fabrication in finishing off the hood there. Would have been quicker than the top of the cowl though! Plenty of shaping in that piece.
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I started this build after spending so many years having to work within a rule book of some sorts. I wanted to learn more about metal shaping and chose aluminum as the challenge to learn from.
Most likely won't drive it on the highway. I belong to an 'old timer' racing group called Racers Reunion that meets once a year and they bring old and vintage race cars for display, and in the afternoon they take a slow 10 lap 'tour' around an old 1-mile dirt track in North Carolina. I have a friend that is getting old and I want to take him around the track in the speedster this year. Still have lots to do, mostly the driver and passenger top areas, electrical and gas pedal/dual carburetor issues.
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Looking good Will.
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These pictures of the seats were taken a few months ago, I just got them resized and uploaded. The work on the upper compartment panels is from this week end. The slots/thin openings around the contour of the upper panels is where the wire edging will go for the driver and passenger openings. I had the water jet guy 'stitch' cut the openings, so that the metal would stay in place when I rolled the sides and formed the panel. Once installed, as it is now, I will cut out that area and attend to the wire edging work. The 3" thick seat cushion foam was cut on the water jet machine, as were the wooden seat bottoms.
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The project looks good Will. It won't be long now and it will be running.
Today was a great day for the Front Row Motorsports team too!
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I admittedly don’t know the first thing about the rules or what’s allowed in this vintage type racing. Having said that I’m just wondering if you’re allowed to split the front wishbone…….. if you could get the split wishbone to pivot just inside the bottom of the pitman arm it would certainly go a long way towards correcting the bump steer those early Fords had. The idea being to get the drag link & the split wishbone swinging on the same arc so bumps and body lean don’t steer the car around. ~ John Buchtenkirch
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I think Henry Ford designed the wish bone to swivel in the center so that frame flex would not upset the front end alignment.
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That gave me a smile, imagined Jim and yourself jammed into the cockpit ( not suggesting that Jim's old ) he' in his prime compared to us. Just never thought of it as a 2 seater.
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