Also made steering wheel mounted turn signal, high beam and horn buttons, probably about $35 in parts, 1362
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Also made steering wheel mounted turn signal, high beam and horn buttons, probably about $35 in parts, 1362
Also made a gear position indicator, you can get these digital motorcycle gear displays from china for about $10, just buried it in epoxy using the horn button as the form1358135913601361
Fuel Filler, wanted to get it out of the engine compartment,13531354135513561357
Rear hatch latch, I setup the rear cover latches the same as a Ultima car but still wanted something as sort of a safety latch/verification that the rear is all the way closed so added something to...
Been a while since posting I just noticed, been doing a lot of body work, finally got everything close to paint, panel gaps looking good, etc. 134713481349
Wondering if anyone has upper door windows they'd be willing to part with, my right side fits well but the left side is trimmed too small in spots, one of the previous 5 owners of my project car must...
Check your messages, I sent you something to coordinate shipping
Hello mantawoody, I've got one of those aluminum 350 to corvair adapters, I'm not using it. You can have it, would just want to be sure shipping is covered.
Thanks for the idea, I like it
more headlight mech pics, took some work to come up with something that stayed out of the wheelwell,
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Hey Jerry thanks, yea,would be nice to cover the little latch brackets that hold the spring loadedpins on the upper doors. I hadn't got that far yet, played a little bitwith cutting pvc in half and...
Hi Terry do you mind sharing what was the actual color/paint code you used to paint your replica? I've been looking for the right color, I've sampled ford school bus yellow and from the modern BMW...
final assembly will get the fine adjustments right and get rid of the bounce when the headlight doors land at the top and bottom
Here's the pop-up headlight in action, changed all the joints to double sheer to keep better alignment and avoid binding,
https://youtu.be/28RGDQnshUk
oops, got a couple pics formatted sideways,
Pop-Up Headlights - catching up with posting, more body-mechanical stuff, I like the novelty of pop up head lights, the previous builder glassed them in and added cutouts for fixed lights but I...
here's how I did the spring pin mount,
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and to be able to open from the outside I did have to make a little handle to twist the cable and actuate the pins, not the prettiest but oh well,...
and the front striker plate,
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Upper door latches, seems like everyone has trouble with how to do these, I sure have, went through about 5 different ways to do the upper latches, back to the drawing board multiple times but...
I post lots of pics to help others, that's what's helped me, pics I found off the internet and this forum, plus my imagination are all I have to work with on this build
https://youtu.be/UohDgEAeAw0
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The upper doors I had just did not fit the contour of the body so had to do some pretty drastic modifications, had to basically cut them up and re-shape to fit the contour, reinforced with internal...
Thanks guys, definitely took a bit of work, I'll be adding more pics today, yea that hinge, I did see one early year fiberglass car, maybe British, with a similar hinge so I figured well I'll keep...