Thread: I couldn't build it for $3 K either!

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Thanks J.R.

Yep, it's hidden under the seat.

Mike

That is a smart way to do it. I remember a T that Car Craft built in the '60's as a project. They bolted a piece of angle iron up the door jam with a bent leg in it that fastened to the floor, to accomplish what you have done here. Your idea gives you some fine tuning as time goes on.

Don

Don

If that's the car that had coil springs front and rear, I have that build-up in an old Hot Rod annual somewhere. I didn't remember the door brace.

Of course that doesn't surprise me at all.

Mike

I want to eventually add a top of some kind to this project. I used to have a Jeep and a dune buggy so I know how the sun can beat down on you in an open car.

Going topless might be cool for short cruises, but long stretches on the highway could leave you baked pretty good, not to mention the rain.

I'll figure out the top design later. What I needed now was a way to hold it on. It had to be added now before the insert went in.

I tapped some pieces of 3/8" flat bar and used my router to cut some slots in the inner wood frame. The tapped plates go into the slots and are caged in by the interior unit. They will be under about 3/8" of fiberglass and epoxy when the body is finished, so I think they will be strong enough. There is one in each side and 2 more in the rear.

I also made up a jig that will allow me to locate and redrill the holes in the body after the insert is glued in.