Projects Giant speedster project

Cool, thanks for sharing Jack!

 

Hey Jerry, after looking at post 8775 on this thread http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=380814
I almost wonder if you need those fender aprons.

 

The giant speedster started out as a bare bones big racer that wouldn't have needed any fender aprons ( or even fenders) but it kind of grew into a gentleman's giant road car and that's when I figured it needed aprons.

Hey Jack, would we know any of the movies it was it?

Rear fender aprons:

I got some Walmart poster paper. This stuff is really cheap. Where can I get something about three times as thick? Anyway, I mocked up some rear fender aprons to get an idea of how they would look. See what you think. I have to go under the fender supports unless I make the aprons in three pieces which will be pretty labor intensive.

Jerry

 

Maybe try an art supply store or picture framing shop and look at some Bristol board or matte board. It might be the opposite of "really cheap" though. What's the word I'm looking for? Ummm... "spendy"? Maybe some discontinued styles or stuff thats creased, scuffed or discolored.

You got any commercial printers in your areas? Might have some misprinted posters or proof copies on their scrap pile.

 

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Hey Jack, would we know any of the movies it was it?

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Jerry,

The last 2 major films the DB taxi was in were Cinderella Man & Chicago. It was the main taxi in both.

If you try an upholstery supply shop you may find what they call Kitchen Board (around here) or door panel board which is a little thicker. Both are reasonably priced & usually fairly large. I have used Kitchen Board many times for exactly what you are doing.

Jack

 

lamb en ating? the paper will work with spray contact cement ...
or even just doing reinforcement strips around edges...
or taping wire to the paper to hold shapes ...
foil tape...
gogogogo

just a thought after closer scrutiny of the mock up ..
have all the apron tuck under the edge of the fender ..so about a half inch of overhang of fender above all the apron
visually keeping the two separated ?

and bring the apron back to the tail a bit more?

 

Beep, beep---beep, beep, His car went beep, beep, beep.

Remember that song? The Little Nash Rambler? Of course, I hadn't been born yet. You believe me right? How come songs like that don't make it on the radio any more? Or do they? I only listen to talk radio. You can see in the picture all the grading going on behind my shop. Well, the big diesels are droning all day long, but that's not what drives me insane. It's the constant beep, beep, beep of the back alarms. Man! I'm going crazy!

I bent up some more 1/4"' rod for the perimeter of the rear aprons and drew out the shape on a piece of sheet metal. I hope to get to the shop today and cut it out. First I've got to go by Yonah Station and make a handicap ramp (this is our first dry day in about a week) out of asphalt patch. My architect told me the new handicap bathrooms have to be 8' X 10' Wow! You're supposed to have room for an attendant now. Luckily, the business is not expected to provide one. Good thing I'm not constructing any more buildings.

Jerry

 

Too wet today for the beep, beep, beep.

I cut out the sheet metal and bent it around the 1/4 round. A lot of banging instead of beeping. Tomorrow I'll have to fit the apron to to the car. This will be where I find out if I made any colossal mistakes. There's always one blurry picture.
Jerry

 

Bang, bang, beep, beep, bang, bang, glug, glug

I came down to the shop the other day and there was a lake on the west side of the building. The graders had buried a culvert that drains my property. It had been raining for two days and the water had built up to within about six inches of the building's slab. I made some calls. I guess there was no danger of flooding since the rain had mostly stopped, but still... The next day they uncovered the drain so now I just have soggy land.

The rear aprons are more work than the front ones. More bends and stuff. It took me all day just to get it to fit half way. I still have to come up with some fastening method. I may not even fasten the apron to the fender but instead let it float free. I like that--float free. I want to float free--in the surf on a beach in Antigua!

Jerry

 

It will rattle unless you tie it in somehow, or put some rubber in between the two pieces.

But it's good that the rain stopped before your building floated free

 

strong magnets.... string...

or attached to the fender bracing (your choice how) with leather gasket between

strap over the two brackets
bolts thru the two bracket
studs under the two bracket ??????

oh I see ya just want to be a beach bum...

 

Parts are going through the roof. I bid on a steering wheel on ebay today. I have a brass spider for the speedster and I was planning to make a wood rim but when I saw this wheel all shiny and finished I thought: What the hell! I bid high too. At least I thought I did, but I came in second place. The wheel went for $241. I hope the guy who got it uses it on a vehicle and doesn't just add it to his "collection" of fire engine memorabilia. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Steering-Wh...%2FmHLS1zeuyAbcg9mduI%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Jerry

 

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry... what were you thinking! Bidding on a complete and finished steering wheel? We expect more from you than that. What's next? Are you going to pay "big bucks" to have someone else build the entire car. Now, don't you feel a little bit embarrassed about having bid on that finished steering wheel? Fortunately someone else outbid you. We are going to forget this "unfortunate" lapse in judgement, just this once...but don't let it happen again. Now stop your whining and get back to making the steering wheel yourself. You have a head start as it is... you already have the steering wheel spider! Think of all the time having the spider has saved you. Why, the steering wheel is practically finished.

 

What was I thinking? You're right. I lost my way. Thanks for setting me straight. And think of the money I've saved.

Jerry

 

Jerry,

It is good to see you are back on track!


If you leave the fenders as two floating pieces will you not have red mud dripping down the outside of the aprons after it hits the inside of the fender? This will happen when you are chasing the "beep- beep" army next door.

Jack

 

Not to mention the time saved and stress avoided. Besides, it will be built the way you want it. Keep at it Jerry, you're doing a great job. Remember, the last 5% only takes about 90% of the time.

 

jerry what dia wood
wheel are you needing i have one needing the spyder i will meas and let you know later this week ..:0

after lookin at the link it appears mine could be the 17 inch or smaller model t ????

 

Not to brag but mine is 19"

Jerry

 

Not only 19" but we're talking 19' in circumference, how long is it?

 

Actually, I think he is talking about 19" in diameter.

 

I stand corrected... of course, it is diameter which makes it even more awesome!

 

Now that looks like a hell of allot of fun

 

Rear fender apron chapter 10

In our last chapter Jerry had been admonished for wanting to buy a finished steering wheel. Now, returned to his rightful place in the automotive fabricating world, Jerry continues to toil on his troublesome rear fender apron.

"Gosh, this rear fender apron is awfully close to the rear spring," Jerry said scratching the few strands of hair he had left.
"Ach, mon, you've gone and cut the metal too close," said Neil, Jerry's friend from Scotland. "Now you'll have ta make the blasted apron all over."
"Nonsense," said Jerry, "watch this."
Jerry took out his pliers and with deft strokes peeled back the metal he had previously bent around the rod that formed the apron's circumference. In minutes he had reshaped the rod and recut the sheet metal to provide clearance for the rear spring.
"Ah would no have believed it if I had no seen it with ma own eyes," said Neil. "I say we celebrate with a wee dram of the ol sheep dip."
Smiling, Jerry followed Neil into the house.
"Crap!" said Neil as they entered the kitchen, "the damn dog's gotten into the trash. I'm going to beat the haggis out of him.

To be continued...

 

Dogs just wanna have fun.

 

sheep dip gone wild

 

Today I drilled two holes.

Progress is progress. As long as I move forward I'm happy. They held a mock emergency at the high school yesterday so they called off school for everyone. I watched kids. Today, I got an old Clark forklift running for a friend and fixed a hydraulic leak on it. Then I helped my wife deliver and install a stove to her mother's rental unit. When I got back all I had time for was to drill two holes in my fender supports to hold my fender apron. (Someone needs to clean off that drill press!) Hey, who's complaining? Check out the lake on the side of my building. It's a little smaller since they uncovered the storm drain they covered up. Tomorrow I may drill two more holes. I might even thread them. Now that would be real progress!

Jerry

 

except for leaving the incriminating tracks in the mud now is your chance to relocate those marking stakes ...oh I mean drill more holes

 

If you do something every day, sooner or later you will run out of things to do.

 

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