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  1. yonahrr
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    I would paint the top black, otherwise I might put one on the speedster as an auxiliary device. My only residential tenant fell through the water sensitive particleboard floor of the double wide I rent to her so today I must fix the floor.

    Jerry
     
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  2. JIMSPSYCLESHOP
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    Jerry, I was with you all the way and cheering you on until you tackled the upholstery yourself. Sorry friend, it looks like pizza dough that won't stop rising. Such a fantastic project and now all I see is that puffy, early 60's looking, flesh-tone, diner seat! I know you put a ton of work into it but, sometimes one has to step back and edit, it's got to go. Jimmy


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  3. yonahrr
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    There's no dough to get rid of the pizza dough, so it has to stay. :) Besides, as the child of my own hands I'm growing fond of it. I will however take donations so I can eventually send the seat to Swann's Upholstery for a proper job. I'll tell everyone the car was restored in the early sixties. :)

    Jerry
     
  4. greaser
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    Jerry, I for one, appreciate ALL the work you've done on the speedster, INCLUDING the button tufted seat.
     
  5. Ulu
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    Yeah, yeah, the seat looks OK for now.
    Let's get this thing out for a shakedown!
     
  6. JIMSPSYCLESHOP
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    Jerry,
    Hope my opinion was taken in the spirit it was meant. You have done some marvelous work. I tried doing the seat myself in my own speedster project. I realized quickly it was not going to look comparable to the rest of the project and let a pro do it. My pockets aren't deep either but it was worth the expense do see an interior equal to all the work I did myself. Jimmy


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  7. yonahrr
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    Why the windscreen?

    I have gotten several cards and letters asking:
    Dear Jerry, why are you working on the windscreen when you haven't finished the upholstery? (Hated, as it is :) )
    A very good question--with a very good answer. I have learned (through the years) that before finishing up a section of a project (say the upholstery) I should begin an adjoining section. By this method the two sections can be mated in harmony. If this is not done, then one section (the upholstery, for instance) might be finished only to find out there is a conflict with an adjoining section (the windscreen, for instance.) The fact is the leather roll on the dash needs to be fastened in the very place the windscreen will be bolted down to, and I don't want to find out later I can't bolt down the windscreen because I put the roll screws in the wrong place.
    I finished up widening the windscreen and stuck it in place. It looked a little too high and my eye level was low enough I could cut off about three inches. I know everyone wants something like Brookland's windscreens but they're really kind of useless, and I don't want to wear goggles when I drive the speedster. I've already got one of those cars. Remember the windscreen will tilt back, and there are wings on the sides.

    Jerry
     

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    Anyone who thinks you are unbalanced should take a hard look at that string job.
     
  9. Jack Innes
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    Jerry,

    A single Brooklands type windscreen for the driver, mounted behind the regular one looks good when the car is on display or in a parade situation. I have driven cars with this setup & it is the best of both worlds.

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  10. JIMSPSYCLESHOP
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    ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1405908485.832114.jpg this giant speedster popped up on my Facebook today. LaFrance fire engine? Jimmy


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  11. SR100
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    It looked like an aero-engined special to me, so I did a little digging. It was built in the Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim's (Germany) workshops under the project name “Brutus“. It uses an American fire engine chassis, but has a 47 liter WW I BMW bomber engine. Jeremy Clarkson drove it for a Top Gear video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wJn7LHE83cc
     
  12. MrModelT
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    I like that windshield! :D

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  13. Omg a steering wheel in place did I miss a couple month's?

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  14. Ulu
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    Pardon me for not reading every post yet. I will get a chance someday.

    But what starts this thing? Hand crank? Big hamster? Shot gun shells? Push truck?
    Man, can you imagine bump-starting such a thing?
     
  15. There is no doubt the roadster is definitely different! HRP
     
  16. If you go back thru enough posts you'll find some links to some videos of it being cranked over and fired up. You might be disappointed by the lack of drama. He just mashes on the starter button, fiddles with the choke or the primer cups or something, and it belches to life. :eek:

    OK... It's a little dramatic. :p
     
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    Nonetheless, this I must do...
     
  18. DocWatson
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    Sorry to be so 'nit picking' but I would just like to point out that the Heinkel He111 is a World War II bomber. First produced in 1935 and through to 1944 the He111 was the main bomber of the Luftwaffe.
    It's one hell of a speedster though one has to admit that, that sound is incredible!

    Doc.
     
  19. JIMSPSYCLESHOP
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    Thanks Sr100 for clearing that up. The engine didn't look like any LaFrance I recall seeing. Jimmy


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  20. yonahrr
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    Well, it warms my heart to see you guys keeping up the posts while I was fixing floors and smoking out new tenants. But I did manage to sneak into the shop and make the windshield mounts. Brutus is absolutely outstanding and a much better show than my speedster what with fire shooting out of the exhaust. Somehow I got off on a more refined path. Not sure how since I'm actually quite a crude (belch) fellow. Maybe I'm compensating. :) I'll be moving the speedster out of it's present location in a few days and back to my little shop because I rented the place out--Yahoo!! The windshield mounts need a little tidying up. Maybe I should fair them into the body. We'll see. I also need to make some better nuts--wing nuts and acorn nuts.

    Jerry
     

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    Loving the windscreen.
     
  22. Windshield looks good! I assume the bracket will get a lower leg for support?
    Should look fine after cleanup and paint......
     
  23. 64 DODGE 440
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    Just triangulate the bracket to the hole in the side of the cowl and change your nuts and it will look fine. Although I think the changing of your nuts may be slightly painful. :eek:
     
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    Yup, Hardware Harmony and it will be great!
     
  25. The glass should be curved at the base and along the top...glass cutting is just like upholstery. ..Ez for Georgian button tucker extraordinaire

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  26. racer_dave
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    I did not read this entire post while at work. Nope, didn't do it. Didn't take me 4 days either. But it did leave me saying 'What kind of whack job builds a giant speedster from a firetruck?' Evidently a brilliant one.

    Kudos on this huge project. I've bookmarked a bunch of pages with tricks I want to use on stuff I'm working on. I can't wait to see the next video and pictures of the finished project. Now I need to talk my wife into taking a vacation near Cleveland GA so I can come see it in person.
     
  27. SR100
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    Good catch. I should have known the engine looked newer than WWI. The page from the museum where it was built (http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/en/project-car-brutus) implied that it was from WWI. I should have dug further. They put up a pdf in German (http://pdf.technik-museum.de/museumsgeschichten-brutus.pdf) that has more accurate details. If I can trust Google translate, it says the engine was built in the early 1930s, and was installed in, among other things, the Heinkel He 9 and Dornier Wal flying boat. Clarkson was being Clarkson...
     
  28. Wouldn't pecans be more appropriate in your neck of the woods? o_O
     
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  30. yonahrr
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    TROG sounds awesome! I need a speedster toter, which I'm working on making or getting. My present enclosed toter is only 18' long so I have to add 3' to the box. Not a real big job since I built the box. Also the Dodge 318 might be a bit weak to pull around the 4000lbs. Maybe not. Or I've got to buy a new toter--I mean old new toter. That modern Freightliner was on sale for a around $5500 the other day. But it's over CDL and over my budget too. Today, I've been cleaning up and moving things around. I really want to drive the speedster back to my shop on Sunday morning when everybody is at church. Traffic will be light and it's not very far. I got my shop cleaned out and the cars in the yard rearranged. If I do drive it, and I see no reason why I can't, it'll be movie time. Can't wait!! Hey, this might be feature length!!!

    Jerry
     

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