Mid- Engine Modified Sports

[manta22]

It's like this-- I've been collecting weird stuff for years, thinking "Hey... that's cool stuff-- it should be good for something- someday." Now "someday" is here and that pile of weird stuff is coming in handy. My wife used to ask "Whatever are you going to do with all this stuff?" These days she hasn't asked that for a while. The philosophy was-- if it is real cheap and seems like it might be useful-- buy it.

Regards, Neil

[manta22]

This is the fifth try to get past "An Error Has Occurred". I've changed the text and the names of the photos and this still happens. This is such a PITA that I suggest disabling this feature!
I have my roof rails now in place temporarily. I made these out of two sections of straight 3/4"x3/4" 6063 T-4 aluminum extrusions. To fit the curvature of the roof line, I hammered the vertical legs moderately so that they achieved a slightly bowed shape. They will be fastened in place later with 1/8" dome head Avex rivets.

Not much else will get done for a while as Joline and I are leaving for Germany on Thursday.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[manta22]

pictures

[38flattie]

Looking good, Neil!

Have fun in the Fatherland!

[manta22]

Ja voll, mein Herr!

[tauruck]

Tucson will never be the same. Everyone thought the Treits liner was responsible for the Cleco shotage. I beg to differ. Neil, you do lovely work. Enjoy the trip and travel safely.

[manta22]

Thanks, Mike. Cleco shortage? Just wait until I start riveting on the stressed aluminum panels!  The chassis will look like a porcupine with all of those Clecos sticking out!

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[tauruck]

Are you going to bond and rivet?.

[manta22]

Mike;

Rivet for sure; bond-- maybe. It would make the joints stronger and also keep salt out of the faying surfaces.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[manta22]

You already submitted this post! You might have accidently double clicked, or tried to refresh.
Oh no I didn't-- something is wrong with this filter-- it rejects pictures that have never been posted and posts that are not the same as previous attempts. I give up.

[robfrey]

Hey Neil. How about an update?

[Stainless1]

Neil, think out of the box... what was the name of the picture you tried to post.... camera assigned or by you, either one could have been used before by anyone and are in the database.  As soon as you get the picture reject stop... hit the back button... copy your post... then rename your picture by adding a 123 or abc or anything else that might make it unique... if you posted 3 pictures there is no way to know which one it is so rename them all, then hit the back button again so you were where you were when you decided to hit reply... now hit reply... paste in your original post, add the pictures and hit post again.  
follow that procedure and life gets a little easier.  
I have started renaming anything I post so I never see the picture reject message.

Rob... you are one cruel dude 

[manta22]

Nope, doesn't work. I renamed that picture file "XYZ.jpg" and it was still rejected. I think it must look at the file size or something. Redoing the text also won't help! Arrrggghhh.......................

[Captthundarr]

Neil, me and a couple of others had a similar a few days ago but Bob C. and Slim fixed it. Mayhaps its back.

[Speed Limit 1000]

Neil, the car is looking great. When do you think it will be on the salt?