Building a Special Body

[Ian Williams]

More details; In the past to remove the gearbox form my car I needed to take the engine out first, a highly unsatisfactory arrangement on a hard used special. This time I wanted to ensure the gearbox came out through the car, this required a cover over the necessary aperture in the fire wall, the attached series of pictures shows the cover panel, the jig I formed it over and the panel in-situ. 


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Another annoying thing when racing the old special was the tendency of me to bruise my right hand knee against the inside of the scuttle. Being somewhat delicate in my old age I decided the new body would have a padded leather knee pad to reduce this tendency. The mounting for the pad needs to be removable, not only so the pad can be affixed, but also to allow access for wiring to be routed up and down between instrument panel and floor void. Being a bit anal about aesthetic appearances I wanted the fixing screws to be Raised CSK head so the panel needed to be dimpled to accept them, for this I turned up a simple punch and die. 


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