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Not yet there, Pugsy. I am waiting for the inspector to return and give the approval for highway use...........
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That seems about right. Time for another visit, eh?
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Been thinking about your car Will.
If you wanted to go "full Edwardian" you could add a big ole nasty chain drive, dual to both rear wheels... yeehaw!!
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It's always time for a visit. Especially where it's not so bloody cold. |
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Well, I am calling this finally done. I know one thing, I am done working on it!
Finished up the metal finishing on the grill insert and the nose panel yesterday and today, and Peggy helped me re-assemble panels this afternoon. This was started as a project to learn about aluminum shaping and welding and to learn more about riveting. Neither of my earlier 'endeavors' required anything but steel and welding. I made SolidWorks drawings to begin the steel Model A chassis and body supports. The steering was offset to permit steering from the center and the service brake cross shaft was installed opposite of the original intent and I had to mate the left side clutch pedal to the original brake pedal trunion to be able to activate the clutch without hitting the left side of the body. The dual carburetor 'option' was difficult at first, but a balance tube and a more careful application of gaskets in the assembly of the multiple flanged intake/exhaust manifolds more finely tuned the idle and acceleration issues. These pictures do not reflect the final hand finishing that will be done with 'red' scotch bright and alcohol. The side and top body character lines were attempted to gain experience in metal shaping detailing. I have a new appreciation for why those that say that they don't like rivets and or riveting. I found it more difficult for me, because in addition to forming shaped panels, when using rivets you not only have to form the panels but need an excellent fit for the structure underneath. If they BOTH don't match, the rivet will display the non-conformity. Once the rivets have been installed, you cannot go back and 're-surface' the panel with a wheeling machine or planishing hammer and hand planishing is almost not possible. In addition to the artistic shape to be formed, if the lines of the rivets are not straight and or parallel to edges and lines , or evenly spaced, it becomes immediately obvious. It is also critical to be able to 'hit' each river equally, not only for looks, but for strength. Preventing marks from errant rivet gun stems was also a chore for me. This project gave me an entirely new appreciation to those of you like Kent White and Bill Trombley who routinely work on aircraft. This speedster project is NOT an excellent example of applying rivets, but merely a revelation of the range of what I had to learn about in the aluminum fabricating process. Despite the end appearance of the body, I am most happy with the fact that there is NO body filler anywhere, and if I had it to do over again, I would make a GREAT deal of effort to use aluminum sheets from the same build order and pay a LOT of attention to grain direction when laying out the panels. I am of the opinion that these two items contribute to the fact that I was unable to get all the panels to have the same 'reflectivity' even though I/we spent time to try and use the same process to finish all the panels. Full strokes from one end of the panel to the other made a great deal of difference in appearance on the same panel, but little to be able to match one panel to another. Riveting prevented post assembly panel finishing. Clearly, the most prolific assistance has continually been my wife Peggy, but I have been helped a GREAT deal by a growing number of GREAT friends in this endeavor and I want to make sure they are noted and my appreciation shown to them for their efforts. Jim Hery, Per (Metalman Sweden), Peter Tommasini, Cass Nawrocki, Kent White, Bob Kolenda, Steve Greenway and local friends Paul Crosby, Mike Yurko and Charles Camp were invaluable in helping along the way. THANKS guys! (I'm sure others will come to mind, and I will add them as I can recall them). - Scott White, John Trutnau, Jeff Newton and Andrew Slater are hereby added as well - Thanks, guys! I also want to thank Pat Brubaker and Billy Jack. I am most likely going to be putting this up for sale when I get past the holidays. It has served it's purpose and I want to move on to other projects. My bucket list is getting smaller, but not small.
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Hi Will,
I always liked following along on your project, thanks for sharing with the group. I find the idea of building my own car intriguing, it is neat to see your design process and ideas. Cheers, Bill
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It's fantastic that you can call it done! Big hurdle! Congratulations friend!
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That's terrific Will. Jeez, and I couldn't even finish a front clip in the time you built a whole car.
It looks great and I can't wait for your next project. |
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It's always good when you can decide you're done- great to hear your Speedster is finished, Will. Very cool. Congratulations.
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