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Got most of the car back home today. Left the hood to have a scoop installed and the window inserts to have the wing windows and lexan installed. The wing windows will actually work like the old 55 and will be a good place for stickers.
It is good to get back to work on the car again, feels like it was gone for a long time. Got the driver side door fitted and started working on the passenger side. The driver side came out pretty good but it was a lot of work to get it fitted to the door opening. The fenders were extended and they are a lot longer than I expected, where they were short by 3 to 4″ they are now longer by 5 to 6″. The fiberglass is flying like snow up north in the winter.
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Rained all day with tropical storm Debby in the Gulf. That helped fill the shop with fiberglass dust, like snow in the winter except it was hot, very hot. But between the dust mask, the goggles and long sleeve shirt we did get the body pretty much together.
We got the passenger door trimmed and fit. Than we worked on the fenders. Mary had an old trick she learned while working on aircraft with Piper Aircraft. She marked up the matching points of the overlapped fenders to the doors, than I was able to trim the fenders in a much shorter time than it would have taken me without her help.
The body work is not great but it will get us by till the body work project becomes the high priority for next year.
The latches will be the next area to work on. Made a template and marked the passenger side door for a starting point.
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tomblake
Took most of the day but the passenger door has a working latch. Started the driver door and it is different than the passenger door, has a indentation in the fiberglass for a roll bar where the latch mechanism goes. We went to the fiberglass parts to avoid the body work on the steel parts but looks like there is more work in the fiberglass parts. Don’t mind the work but it is eating up time and time is getting short. Only 46 days to the 4th race.
Joe…I knew I was hooked when I took the original 55 to Dover for the first time and came home with a trophy. Race cars have been a big part of my enjoyment. So I guess the answer to your question would be yes.
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Got the latch in the driver side door done. Than got the latches working from the inside as well as the outside. Brackets for the radiator and a shelf for the MSD started.
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