Back in the shop for my two-day-a-week-sports-car-build.
I started building the back seat area and the top tubes. Cool weather, nice bright shop, good music, clean straight metal, spending all day long building a car. Does it get much better than that? Most of it went pretty smooth, I only had to cut a couple tack welds to adjust some fitment.
Back tubes are on. I lowered the arm rest tubes (N1, N2) down 5 degrees toward the back, to look more like a Caterham. I also modified the M1, M2 tubes to bring them directly under them for more support.
The front end assembly was a few millimeters off. It didn't quite meet up with the J1 an J2 tubes. I broke the tacks and leaned them back to fit.
This thing looks more like a boat than a car.
How the car ended on day one of my weekend fun.
Everything lines up nicely.
Really love having my own shop space to setup in.
Everything good on the Locost front.
All done after day two of my therapy session.
I don't have the engine yet, so I'm not doing any trans tunnel or things like that yet. So I started some bracing. I'm using 3/4" on the sides. I will be doing much more bracing than the book calls for including Aussie Mods. I like it stiff.
The other end of the brace.
All cleaned up and ready to go home!