Projects BENNETTS ‘Midnight Special’ speedster

Funny enough these ones are fake. I’ve done many properly in the past, but these are only just for looks to ad an appearance that they could be factory.

 

Here is what I was looking at.
https://www.motoringpast.com.au/red-dust-revival

 

Man I love this! I’ve seen a few photos of it! Have any more?
A lot of the idea came from Ray Prue’s single seater

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/save-of-the-day-single-seater.1054292/

...How about a Thread...Man Rusty has a lot of Threads...

 

Cool, That is going to be one nice little car when it is done.

I found another thing on Lake Perkolilli This link says they used to have a large circular track there LAKE PERKOLILLI - speedwayandroadracehistory

A bit more including a map. Lake Perkolilli Red Dust Revival 2019 (australiasgoldenoutback.com)

I remember the video from a couple of years ago showing that the trip into the lake was more like and overlander expedition than a trip to the raceway.

Keep us posted and lets see some photos and a video of that one throwing up some dust.

 

@jordabennett your build is frickin' amazing!!!!!

high quality work based on a time honored concept.

Looking forward to further updates on this one.

 

Love it! Glad to see another builder closer to my age making some sweet stuff - thanks for bringing us along!

 

Here you go, great build thread!
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/my-single-seat-racer-build.1024839/

 

Thanks for sharing your pic's and building skills, will follow.

 

Thanks man! Much appreciated

 

Hi Jordan, nice job so far mate,the Lake is calling ya!

 

So nice!

 

He was asking about pics of Rusty's Racer and I shared the link to his Single Seater build but Koolkats Single Seater Thread is certainly worthy of being shared as well since it was mentioned as being a heavy motivator to Jordas build underway.

 

That looks like a good time!

 

Lookin' good. Can't wait to see more.

Can you go over the process you use to dress your welds?

 

Ahhhhh. . . . The Defender! What a neat car @onekoolkat1950 built. We had a great time that year in NJ!!

 

This is Ray's build thread for the Defender. Not phone savvy but you should be able to find it with this;

 

The link to Koolkats build is in Post #38 and Post #43...

 

Speaking of rivets . . .
On the second Model A frame we built in the 60s for my highboy roadster, we filled the not used frame holes with rivets tacked in from the back of the channel. Then we cut them off on the outside. It took very little filler to touch them up.

In retrospect, that may have been more work than other options. Oh, well.

 

Yes definitely I’ll go over a few steps, I’ll have a video each week covering everything build related on our YouTube channel as well-







Jordan.

 

Weekly video updates! I can feel the pressure for progress already, and it's not even my project!

 

Don’t have much time to get this one finished so they’re be late nights and early mornings! Haha

 

Finishing up some welding on the pinch, horse shoe and rear sections.
I’ll go into more detail on blending tomorrow.

 

Naahhhh, your car looks like a correct vintage HOT ROD!!...putty and paint can't really make them what they ain't!!....although the OP's build is sweet!

 

Finished off all the welding and blending on the frame today- the tapers in the frame, the kick ips for the rear ( the back frame horns will stay until I decide what to do with them and the rear portion of the body, I few asked about the blending technique with silicone bronze. These plates on the rear are not really structural hence using the bronze. I cut those Roloc wheels into squares so only the corner portion is hitting the area making it rounded and blends perfectly- then a USED red scotch brote pad on the wheel to help finish it off, tomorrow it’s split wish bones and motor mounts.

one thing I do need to know to fitting a model a rear torque tube to 39 box? The pieces needed for this. I will have to shorten this a fair bit prior.

 

Cool project. Great fab skills.

 

Could you discuss the procedure for doing the silicone bronze tig? I.e. what prep, rod gas if different, etc. I've seen the results, but have never tried it.

 

Saw this photo in the thread titled Haper Lake 41, and immediately thought of this thread:

 

Wow! I need to find more photos of this!

 

Lovely work!