Thanks for sharing your build! There are so many innovative ideas here and the craftsmanship going into this well thought out car should make it a very fun and safe car to drive.
That's what I was aiming for this time. I was inspired by the German Grand Prix cars of the 1930's. Which accounts for the silver and grey color theme. The interior will be very simple in black leather.
The body came back from the paint shop and it's nearly completely assembled now. Instruments are the typical SW Wings series.
This is how I lowered the seating position without modifying the stock Model-T seat base. I used a '32 Ford roadster front floor section, available new, and narrowed it and lengthened it. Later it'll be padded and upholstered.
First roll out was yesterday. Little bit of a delay. The Powerglide transmission wasn't finished on time due to delivery problems on a set of roller bearings, so we've had to proceed with an empty transmission case.
Hey Ed! This is another unbelievable build of yours! Watching your photos I travel back in time when I was living in Forchheim. ... beautiful scenery... Everytime I watch one of your bild threads I feel like I was a total hack, hahahaaaaa
Wonderful build. Love the chassis. Just wondering, why did you go with smaller diameter rear rims? Also, thanx for showing us the Stipe shocks, I hadn't heard of them and they look really nice. Gary
Despite the fact the rear wheels are 2" less diameter than the fronts, the larger rear tires make the total height of the rear wheels just a little higher than the fronts, which is the look I wanted. Anyway the Packard rear wheels are massively engineered which is a good thing to have when you have 300 horses.
Let me tell you what happened yesterday which will make you all laugh (or cry!) We started the car for the first time. Started on the button and ran beautifully and we were amazed. Now I had the car on the lift to keep the tires clear off the ground for safety. (The automatic selector needed to be adjusted and I didn't want the car running off on it's own. Now because it's got no fan I set up one of those huge 6' square military outdoors air conditioners in the shop in front of the car to keep it cool. Just ran the fan, no air-con. But I've got a wall of 20mph air rushing through the shop. So I'm running the engine and adjusting the transmission selector and the engine gets up to running temperature. Everything OK. Now at this point I'd like to add, that the car was spotlessly clean, inside, underneath and outside. A little dusty perhaps but clean. And I'd just spent a complete day cleaning my shop earlier in the week so it looked like an operating theater. Now I'm not naming anyone but it wasn't me who fitted the bottom radiator hose! Some of you will have already guessed what happened next. The bottom hose blew off releasing gallons of very hot rusty water which immediately turned to steam, rose in the air, got blown across the shop and the car by the massive 6' fan, then condensed and fell like hot rain in a thunderstorm everywhere. I flipped off the ignition and all three of us ran outside chased by a wall of steam and boiling rain. About 3 seconds later the show was over. I'm telling you, you won't believe what a mess two gallons of rusty water can make when it's spread everywhere, all over the car, the entire floor and both walls up to the ceiling. So we're standing outside the shop looking in at the mess, and James turns to me and says, "I just hate it when that happens." I said to him, "What - this has happened to you too?". "Oh yes - several times." he said. Made me feel a bit better. Anyway. It took us three hours to clean the shop and the car. But it made me so glad I decided to run the first test run with water and not coolant. If that had been glycerol all over the place we'd still be cleaning today. At least rusty water cleans off easier. Not easily - easier than glycerol. Anyway - moral of the story is: Try not to create the ideal conditions for a thunderstorm inside your workshop.
Well I'm laughing - with you (I hope) not at you. Good though, that it is running. Years ago a friend and I got a very expensive Range Rover stuck at the bottom of a very slippy grassy slope. After struggling for ages he turned and said "One day we'll look back at this and laugh". Well, I've had to say that to myself a few times since and I think it is relevant in your situation. (Oh yeah, just in case you're wondering, we paid a guy with a small caterpillar type tractor to get us back up to the road.) Mart.
Afraid you have to be logged into Facebook. HAMB rules not mine. The forum doesn't allow a Picasa embed.
Video didn't work for me earlier but seems okay now...and I didn't have to log on. Great work there Ed...
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