Indeed, there is always something to buyWise move! you never know when you might need it.
You know me so wellThats the way to roll
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There is a huge amount of stuff ont net saying the vans are eyewash!
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Trouble is, it is a work in progress and so much of it is in my head!You should just give that kit car to me.
It has been registered and on the road, to avoid SVA, but since then I took it almost all apart to "finish it and do it properly" and then my idiotic perfectionist soul came out. E.g. I redesigned the spare wheel holder about 3 times, and I still am not happy.
I debated a pop-up rollover bar, based on one that exists somewhere that senses when a car is just about to turn over, as the car is a sort of loose copy of a thirties roadster, which obvs never had RO bars. I spent a whole fortnight modifying a pair of P30 headlamps to take Volvo sealed units sat inside the shells and behind the original glass. Imagine all this was before LEDs had come to the market. In any form even domestic!
So the drive train, engine etc is in a rolling chassis but the rest is spread all over the place.
This really is looking good. Talked to that building/woodworking mate about your method of burning off the wood before doing whatever to it, he thoroughly approves!Evening all... Pizzed doon all mornin then the sun came out for a bit with a few wee showers.
Finished the garage roof ooopps for got to take pics.
The decking project is taking shape though....
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Trouble is, it is a work in progress and so much of it is in my head!
It has been registered and on the road, to avoid SVA, but since then I took it almost all apart to "finish it and do it properly" and then my idiotic perfectionist soul came out. E.g. I redesigned the spare wheel holder about 3 times, and I still am not happy.
I debated a pop-up rollover bar, based on one that exists somewhere that senses when a car is just about to turn over, as the car is a sort of loose copy of a thirties roadster, which obvs never had RO bars. I spent a whole fortnight modifying a pair of P30 headlamps to take Volvo sealed units sat inside the shells and behind the original glass. Imagine all this was before LEDs had come to the market. In any form even domestic!
So the drive train, engine etc is in a rolling chassis but the rest is spread all over the place.
Quite fancy another kit car to mess about with, I had my eye on a couple but became too busy to
be messing about with motors so they've probably gone by now.
Before domestic led's
This really is looking good. Talked to that building/woodworking mate about your method of burning off the wood before doing whatever to it, he thoroughly approves!
Cool
I done a good bit of burning it after the rear fence was trimmed today.Once its oiled it will look amazing.
I just hope they look after it. There is a hot tub to be fitted & boxed in plus stainless wire to go round it an more fencing.
I won the kit in a competition in 1991.Quite fancy another kit car to mess about with, I had my eye on a couple but became too busy to
be messing about with motors so they've probably gone by now.
Before domestic led's
Don't know what it is like now but the cheapest way to buy a kit car always used to buy an unfinished one, and there were always tons. To most peeps it takes tremendous perseverance to actually build one. Which is why so many give up.
Mind you, even back in those days, some kits were such a piece of p!ss to build, they came with absolutely everything, wiring looms etc etc. but you paid for it. The rest of us got basically the body and the chassis and the rest was up to you. This is what I got. I even didn't buy their windscreen, I welded my own up from aluminium. The only ally welding I have ever done. The only standard parts are.......(to what the kit is supposed to have)......the front cross member and the back axle.
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Whilst sat in front in front of the recently repaired fire?
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doriz
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I highly recommend itNo TV dinners ere
Nope just the hand rail.
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Note to self... don't lean on the handrails....Nope just the hand rail.
The latest gizmo seems to be a handheld jobby that 'analyses' light emitted from the window of your house to see if it matches a broadcast signal. Tripe if you ask me.
Note to self... don't lean on the handrails....
Its got 10mm coach bolts into the stairway & the joists lol
Looks like the downward/below-stairs part of a newel post to me, a rail would be horizontal or at an angle wouldn't it?Nope just the hand rail.
Something to grab when you fell off
