Looks great Cad!
With that big fiberglass “ boot”, there’s gotta be room for some louvre’s and maybe a couple electric fans ( import car radiator size) mounted in the wall behind the seats and covered with grille cloth..Thanks buddy. I wish it was great. It still needs a lot of work.
But the good news is I own it, it’s legal, it runs, and if I have to sell it I can.
Before I can drive too much I need to reinforce the tail light brackets because they’re utterly flimsy. Totally for looks and they’re not that pretty.
Before I can drive it in traffic it needs to have better air circulation to the engine. It’s fine as long as you’re going down the road but if you have to drive in stop and go traffic it wants to overheat.
In the Volkswagen there is a certain path of air circulation that keeps the cooling air away from the air that’s already hot because it’s passed through the cooling system and over the mufflers.
My car ignores this completely. There is nothing to prevent hot air from rising in the engine compartment and being sucked into the carburetor and the cooling air intake.
Lol, he could even wire them up in a push/pull configuration for some fall “top down” motoring..lolI was just gonna say the same thing as Rodburner, except in a far less knowledgable way! LOL Tons of real estate for some extra cooling...
I got the plates mounted on the SS, and trimmed up the uneven fender tips.
. . . the bumper carriage bolts are messing with it...
My biggest question is...are you having fun with it? If you are, then the rest is just gravy. I think for some of us there's the challenge of tackling a big project that really interests you versus finishing said project the way you want and enjoying the fruit of your labor. All the while, there's that part of you that never wants the project to end. And, the other part that can't wait to be finished. Lol!I started working on a dress up panel for the steering shaft penetration on the left fender.
I am also working on an aluminum foot rest for Judy that will accommodate her short stature.
I bolted on a chrome grab under the dash but I don’t like the way it lines up. I’m gonna find something else I like better or build it.
D’oh . . . I looked at the car today and realized I didn’t put on the chrome bumper bolts yet.
Then I went to get them. I had already put them on the back bumper, and I didn’t have any more that size.
I did have some bolts that I had buffed and clearcoated, and I put those in place of the crusty looking zinc plate bolts that were on my bumper.
Also the bumper bolt holes are not well aligned. I can probably loosen the bumper and ream it a bit but it also needs to go to the right side. (Left, in the photograph.)
I started the car up today with a different voltage regulator on it and it still didn’t charge. But then I started messing with my ammeter later and realized it was sticky.
I really do want a voltmeter in this car. Only the oil pressure gauge and the speedometer are working correctly right now. I don’t have any oil temperature showing, the ammeter is suspect & the fuel gauge is not working at all.
There are always points when things become a chore because they don’t go well or don’t go as you expected.My biggest question is...are you having fun with it? . . .
The aluminum can is an interesting invention. There isn't really too much of a convincing reason to make a can out of aluminum, and aluminum is by volume much more difficult to refine than steel. But during WWII American aluminum processing took off to feed the rapid growth of military aviation. Once the war died down the new aluminum plants needed something to do or else shut down, and canning was one of the things they came up with. It wasn't the only thing they did- the decrease in military aviation and the accompanying hordes of former military pilots coming home led to a postwar boom in civilian aviation as well that kept aluminum in demand.I remember watching an old movie while I was drinking beer from a bottle.
Anyhow in the movie were these guys in Africa and they were opening steel cans of beer with an old fashioned punch or church key.
Warm beer. Sent all the way to Africa by boat. In metal. Yuck.
All I could think of was how bad the beer must have tasted out of those steel cans, but they enjoyed it.
By the time I was old enough to drink, beer came in glass or aluminum cans.
But no twist off tops. You needed a tool for bottle caps. A buck knife in my case. Opened both beer and oil. Oil was still in steel cans.