Alf

Update #20 3/16/08 Hello everyone, it's time for another update. I decided that I was never going to get anything done if the car didn't look right first. So I decided to finish the body and change it a little bit to exactly what I wanted, I'm only building this thing once so it may as well be what I want. Pics below tell the story. First I thought that if I'm going through all of this trouble I don't want to be uncomfortable when I drive the car. So I leaned the back back another 1.5" to give me some more room. Then the more I looked at I noticed that the body line was off big time, it was pointing into the ground. So after considering my options I decided to cut the door, pull up the body line, and fill in the gap. After I fixed the body line a ran 1/2 " tubing around the perimeter of the body to stiffin things up and finish it off. A few months ago I cut up one of the front fenders from my 300ZX doner car into the shape of a rear deck like what is found on a model A roadster. It took me a while to figure out how to go about making a rear deck from scratch and make it look right. Then I decided that 1/2" tubing would work. So I set up my sliced up fender and used it as a template for my tubing. I made two pieces for each side. I made the driver's side first off the template fender, then I copied the passenger side from the drivers side as closely as I could. Here's the outside pieces. And the insides. After five hours of work I couldn't wait to see what they looked like. There's the insides. And the outsides Tackem them in and started adding bracing. I got this far and then I ran out of tubing. Looks good to me. Front view. Then I clamped a piece of sheet metal on it to see what it will look like. Thats it for now, I'm going to try and finish the body in the next month or so stay tuned. Thnaks for looking.

Update #19 2/12/08 Hello all, It has been forever since I have posted an update. I guess alot has happened since last time. It looks more and more like a hot rod every day, and it keeps getting nicer than I thought it would be. I have done a little bit of everything over the last few months and redone alot also. Designs have been changed and better ones substituted. This process is taking way longer than I thought it would, but if all gos as planned this should be a real quality car. Well, on to the pictures. Here you can see my qauges and mock up dash panel. You can also see the tape hood, I made this so I could get a measurment off the weird shape. Front shot. The distributor sticks out above the hood line by two inches, I hate that, but its just too much work to lower the motor. I made front shock mounts out of an old headlight bar and welded two small brackets right to the axle. Alot is going on in this picture. Here is the finished firewall, it is now part of the body, I think it turned out good. I also removed the lower intake because my plan is to use an old Pathfiner intake with a throttle body to keep everything inder the hood line. Here you can see my emblem I casted out of bronze in school. Its just my initials, it turned out ok, but I made another one out of aluminum that looks better. I had to make a new pitman arm because it needed to point straight up so I had the same steering ratio from left to right. You can also see the steering column coming through the firewall. Here is a better picture of it. I used the Comet stamped steel suround and it turned out nice. I also had to lengthen my steering arm to correct the ratios and to clear the tire when turned to full left lock. That's it for now, but stay tuned because I plan to do alot of wark on this in the near future. Thanks for looking. Alf