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I got it on ebay, and it came from Hong Kong Paul.
Google that type of thing in and have a browse, I'm sure you'll find it.
I got it so long ago all the info has dropped off my ebay.
Good luck with it, it is worth getting, and it was very cheap if I remember. The UK stuff is double the price.
I worked most of yesterday constructing the scuttle support frame.
which like all the other jobs took (and still is) longer than I thought, lots of welding, fitting in the car welding again and so on.
I can see why one-off fabrication is so expensive now, it's very time consuming. It was such intense work for me that I forgot totake any pics, but I really hope to finish it today so will post some then
When that is done I plan to start on the interior paneling in ally,
which so far seems to have eluded me.
But it all boils down to "this job cannot be done until that one is done" so it sometimes appears that I am actually going backwards, but of course this is not the case and I am getting ever close to the completion of the car.
I will post the frame pics later today with any luck.
My injured finger really hurt this morning, it had gone septic 'cos I dressed it hastily yesterday, so I had to clean it up a bit to make it heal, which was painful, but its alright to heal now.
What was the hasty dressing - a quick bind up with masking tape to stop the blood going everywhere! Been there, but not always good practice. It is amazing how fanatical we can be with creating things that any danger to our well being is often ignored.
Keep up the good work and look after yourself.
Well I started out with good intentions, and went out early to buy yet another sheet of aluminium, and on the way back, noticed some logging going on in my area. After negotiating a good deal for a special bottle of wine, I returned to the site with my chainsaw.
(The deal was " Wow! what a nice bottle of wine, help yourself mate")
Well I hacked up enough wood for the rest of the winter, but did not do any stuff on my car. Sometimes life just really gets in the way, but I could not pass up an opportunity like that.
In some of the farm shops around here a stupid little net with a few logs goes for a fiver, (would last me about an hour and a half) based on such prices I must have around a grands worth of timber in the back of my van, not a bad days work.
The downside is, I'm so knackered now that I don't want to work any more today!
That is a bit of skin she has lifted off. When I snapped the foot off the skin was sheared from the flesh so it looked like a skin ankle warmer for a while.
I had to wait for the skin to die and start to rot a bit before they decided it wouldn't re-seat itself and agreed to remove it.
Nice load of logs, just need a nice warm garage to store them in. Best get cracking with the car so you can make space...
They say there is no smoke without fire Dave, and I'm sure that "World class accident" is not called that for nothing!
There are some things he does in style!
Way back when I started this build, I needed to cut the wheel nuts in half on order to get them to fit behind the modded spinner/ hubcap arrangement which I had made.
That meant cutting all 16 nuts in half, grinding them back to shape, smoothing and polishing them to look like they were meant to be like that.. So I put the hours in and did just that.
So far so good, however, although they looked just like shiny chrome, the end bits I had cut and reshaped were just basically raw steel.
That means that a few days in damp or rainy conditions would render them well red rusty on the ends, so I thought I would get a few quotes for re-chroming them.
I reckoned it would not cost very much to chrome a few little wheel nuts.
Right?
How wrong can one be?
One quote was £5 per nut, plus £20 carriage + Vat = £120
Pretty costly , or so I thought, considering a set of new chrome nuts was around 30 quid.
So I sought more quotes, and it just snow-balled rapidly downhill…………….
One quote was £6.50 per nut plus all the bollox
One was £10 per nut + etc
The worst one was £14 per nut, plus the 20 quid carriage, plus the dreaded, which Topped out at a massive £292.80!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean 300 quid to chrome a set of wheel nuts??
So chroming was OUT, and I went down another avenue, stainless steel nuts at £80 a set.
But then I realised I would have to do the hours of cutting, shaping and polishing all over Again, and I just will not do that.
So there we are, I could have paid 300 quid to have them chromed and after having the wheels on and off a few times over a year or two, the buggers would still go a bit rusty in the end, wouldn’t they?
So my compromise is to give the nuts I have modded several coats of lacquer, eventually put them on the car and having done that, give them a dusting of lacquer again in situ, which should hold any serious rust at bay, then just touch them up once in a while.
Or, does anyone out there think that the chroming prices are reasonable?
I’m not having them chromed regardless of what answers come back (if any)
But some feedback would be appreciated.
