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Post by James on Oct 7, 2015 18:12:39 GMT
Good for lonely rainy days.
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Post by James on Oct 7, 2015 18:20:50 GMT
Much more useable with the tonneau. Took her to Harrogate MG annual meeting - literally thousands of cars - it was immediately grabbed at the gate and taken to the paddock for 'cars of special interest'. It was crowded out with spectators all day. It was almost embarrassing. On the road, even motorbikes nod and give you the thumbs up as you as they scream past
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Post by R2S on Oct 8, 2015 7:14:32 GMT
Stunning work, particularly the tonneau, keep the pictures coming.
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Post by snowbird1 on Oct 8, 2015 12:59:48 GMT
Snowbird. Do you want to borrow the wooden former. I could send? Would want it back but happy to pop it in the post. Thanks for the offer James but I'm now back in AZ. I am quite happy to whittle a couple out - just want to know what size aluminium stock I need to get. Cheers, JT
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Post by marmot0 on Oct 9, 2015 7:04:49 GMT
The car looks fantastic !! great work.
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Post by James on Mar 21, 2016 11:07:43 GMT
Hi everyone! Long time no post from me. It's just a quicky to all who are now building a replicar. Have a think early on about a towing eye. We have just fitted one some time after completion. It might be worth doing any welding or fabrication early and decide where you are going to bring it through/under the car etc. Doing it later, we didn't have so many options and it was a bit of a fuss.
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Post by snowbird1 on Mar 21, 2016 14:17:59 GMT
What did you come up with? I thought about what to do if I ever needed to recover the car - figured a 'D' ring through the lower wishbone would work but a permanent eye would be better.
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Post by James on Mar 21, 2016 15:04:43 GMT
In the end we made two hefty bars that came forward from the bottom of the space frame either side of the radiator towards the front of the car. Then we attached an equally hefty cross bar between the two with the eye in the middle. Painted black so that you can't see it behind the grille. To tow or pull onto a trailer the rope would have to go through the 'mouth'. Not ideal but at least if a tyre gets shredded we won't be left scratching our heads. If we had thought about it earlier we would have brought a visible one through the tub towards the near side (post IVA).
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Post by marmot0 on Mar 21, 2016 16:02:29 GMT
You could also use a towing strap. That way if you shunt something it does not damage the chassis Cheers
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Post by np4wicked on Apr 1, 2016 11:32:41 GMT
Its about attaching the strap to something solid so it wont damage the front skirt and body when you start to pull. That skirt is really low compared to the sub frame and suspension etc. To attach any thing to the car, it'll either have to go under the skirt to the subframe etc or through the 'grill'/mouth - but there's nothing there to attach anything to, unless you make it like James has. The bottom chassis rail just lines up with the mouth, so seemed an obvious choice to mount his towing solution. Hasten to add we've never needed one yet, dry weather driving last year was a dream and looking forward to more this year - without a hitch, fingers crossed.
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Post by James on Jun 15, 2016 11:17:44 GMT
Hi everyone. Just to let you know, we enjoyed building DeBoRah so much that we've ordered another! Let's hope we haven't forgotten everything we've learned.
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Post by R2S on Jun 15, 2016 22:12:58 GMT
So are you going to put me to shame and have two cars built before I finish one?
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Post by James on Jun 16, 2016 17:08:43 GMT
Ha ha BTW R2S - am I right in thinking you bought the MWS 15" wheels and some 'spinners'? Are you still going to use them?
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Post by R2S on Jun 16, 2016 23:01:41 GMT
Im using 15" wires with spinners, Westie66 has tracked down a bit of electronic kit that allows you change the speedo feed to match the wheel dia/circ (have a look on his thread) so I may even use them for Iva to increase ground clearance.
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Post by James on Jun 17, 2016 12:31:44 GMT
Thanks R2S
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