I just scored a secondary blueprint, likely 20+ years old. of the subject drawing on eBay. I knew what I was bidding on because the seller provided decent auction photos. This could turn out to be just a cool wall hanger or it could be historically important if it turns out to be rare and uncopied.
I'm not interested in selling it or copies of it. I'm considering a project to extract the offset data from the drawing with the best measuring process I can assemble. Could be upward of 1000 3 coordinate data points. Not a small effort.
My objective is to place the results of my effort as well as whatever high resolution image files I get to work from in the public domain with a wide open creative commons license.
At this point I need some help. Has anyone here heard of or seen this drawing? If so has do you know if what I propose has already been done?
I have seen a number of small scale models of Frank Lockhart's car and even have a 1:43 resin kit to build. There are lots of images of Jim Latin's full size replica. Reportedly it was designed based on photos of the original and after seeing a small but defining difference between the real car and the Weisel drawings I suspect that Jim and his crew didn't have access to the same drawings as me.
I have an additional request at this time. That is to those of you who are interested in actual data for whatever building purpose you may have, computer model, wind tunnel model, full size or model car please give me some idea of the best data presentation consistent with what you can reasonably expect out of a 77 year old retired mechanical engineer (me). An Excel workbook with a separate worksheet for each of the 24 stations on the John Weisel drawing? How accurate? The 1/8 size copy I have at present is off by about 1/2 of 1% on the long dimension. I think that can be fixed by the shop that is going to make my working negative copies (black line on white paper). I plan to obtain high resolution computer files as well as prints from the upcoming copying process. I'm happy to share these files at my cost for thumb drives and 1st class postage for folks I don't know. Anything below my email limit like 5mb will be a freebie.
If somebody's lawyer sends me a nastygram over this offer I'll have to withdraw it until I create my own drawing to give away. Hope no one is so selfish that they have to do something like that.
Ed Weldon, Santa Cruz Summit, CA