Projects Shade tree Model A speedster kind of thing

ok-that is now 2 votes-you (the shadetree man) are outnumbered!

 

@ne'erdowell,
I don't think the angle change will affect that. For one thing, I haven't even addressed the split wishbone attachment yet. If the angle iron was wider, I could have just drilled the holes further forward and accomplished the same thing, really. Hope I'm right. Haha.

@simplestone, @patsurf,
I actually have a couple of angle grinders, even one of the rechargeable ones, which is really convenient. I just have this notion that I want to do as much of the work on this car as I can with the tools and methods that would have been available to someone during the depression years. I guess I'm a masochist. Seriously, though, if this was how I made my living that would be stupid way to go about it, but since I'm just doing this for fun and therapy I get a lot of satisfaction from being something of a Luddite. All that journey vs destination stuff, I guess. I appreciate everybody's attention and comments.

 

well,then...BRAVO!

 

Thanks, @patsurf. If I'm being completely honest, I had no idea what a "whizzer" was. Makes perfect sense now. Hahaha. That whole slot-making exercise took about an hour, but it was pretty zenlike.

 

I'm busily modifying the old T parts to fit my front end application. They have a curvature to the "foot" that fits the modified frame horns almost perfectly, but I decided that I liked the look of them better flipped over, so I had to reverse that curvature. Seemed like it would be a challenge because of the L-shaped crosse section, but the forge and anvil made short work of it.



You can see the original curve. Sorry my phone decided my hand was the most important thing here.





I should have flipped the finished one over here to be a mirror image of the one that is still original, but if you tilt your head and hold your mouth just right, this picture makes sense.

One of the unexpected side effects of these brackets is kind of lucky. I know I'm going to need to reinforce the upper sides of the frame horns where I cut the notches so I could angle them up. These brackets fall right on top of that area. What luck. However, when I got them in the ideal position on the frame, they weren't lining up with the angle iron spring perch, so I had to curve them a bit.





I thought about using the forge for this, too, but I was pretty sure that the facet I ended up cutting would have just turned out wavy if I heated and bent it. I do feel like I'm getting somewhere now.