All gone!

I thought I might as well try the rear bodywork on as well, so I persuaded Anthea to give me a hand to manoeuvre it into position and here it is. It was sort of interesting to see the car like this, if only to convince myself that I was making some progress, even if I was going to take everything to bits again.

While the rear bodywork was on, I took a few photos of the space under the rear engine cover, just to remind me what it was going to be like at some point. Here’s one of them. It’s interesting to see how much space there is behind the chassis.

Also, there’s that odd central “tunnel” in the rear bodywork, almost like the exit from a diffuser. Jeremy uses this for the place to put the silencer on his car-engined cars, as in the photo of his red car. However, I’m not sure how it’s going to be for me. I am going to have to be a little careful about the RGB regulations for underfloor shape.

After the experience stretching the central tub, which went fairly well, I’ve put my mind to it and stretched the two sidepods. The end results are seen here disporting themselves against the garage door. Long term readers will remember that I have a habit of using the inside of the garage door as a place to test, and clear out, spray guns. Hence the rather fetching collection of redness there.

Like the tub the two sidepods are 60mm longer than they were originally. This means that I’ve now got a collection of bodywork that will actually fit the chassis, although I’m still intending to lay up some GRP on the inside of those bits of aluminium, even though that would probably be slightly heavier than the aluminium. I’ve long thought how nice it would be to have a complete aluminium body. However, that would involve learning to use things like a wheeling machine, something that I suspect would require about 25 years to perfect.

Eagle-thoughted readers might well wonder how I managed to take that last photo, as surely the chassis was in the way? Well, it isn’t because I took it, and all the various parts I’ve made over the last months, off to GKL Coatings to have them powder coat the whole lot. Well, hopefully excluding things like screw threads and circlip grooves. Hopefully, I’ll get it all back, in a fetching shade of grey, in a week or so. In the meantime I’ve got loads of things that I can carry on with.

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