geek49203 wrote:
I also note that the nose/fender/hood piece goes from the tip of the nose back to the dash on the original.
That it does. The original is a good bit smaller than ours. And like the variable-width nose and the separate rear fenders, adjustable scuttle length make it easy(er) to customize your body to your chassis instead of the other way around.
Tim, you're on such a roll that I'm unwilling to disturb it, but here's what I'm up to...
I'm not happy with how I did my own scuttle, or the scuttle kits I provided with the original Lalos (internal ribs and a sheet of fiberglass to bend over the ribs) so I've been working a pattern for molded scuttles. My own bodywork skills are so-so so I turned the finish over to a Genuine Bodyman. Here's how the pattern looks today:
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This is the front side--the rear side is open, so it can be trimmed for length (18" is full length) and so it can be shipped fairly cheaply by nesting one half in the other (oh yeah, and it'll come in two halves so you can trim to width to fit).
The schedule is, pattern to the painter (for a finish coat they can polish and wax) on March 14, to the fiberglass shop on the 16th, molds finished the 28th and first finished scuttle popping out of the molds on the last day of March. I was going to put tha one on my own car, but I can wait for the second one if you want the first one.