Well thanks for all the good, and not so good ideas. I will start looking for some verticle bars to make an insert for the a shell before I even think of using the deuce shell. Oh the bikini top, it hangs from the skeg on the surf board. Carlg.
And turn your surf board around. Anyone who really surfs knows that the fin goes to the front so that when it slips in the racks going down the hwy it won't just slide out and end up in the street. you can guess how we know that.
I like the Idea of a narrow vertical center bar. If you could work an offset on eachside of it like the one that surrounds the openning in the shell. Add a little fineline pinstripes to the shell and the cowl to bring them together. On adding a mesh to the front of the radiator, be sure to select a style that has a large percentage of opennings so as not to restrict the airflow. Ron