Another Build Thread - My '32

[J. Robinson]

OK, I'm back.., finally! After my last post I got sidetracked building another Electrathon race car for a school. I finally priced one of my E-cars so that I got paid for my time (I've practically given my labor away on these cars in the past) and they agreed to pay it. I couldn't turn it down - I wanted the money to help finish this Deuce. Then, at the last race of the season, I broke the front suspension in my E-car and it required major surgery to repair it before I put away for the summer. And then I took time to put air conditioning in my shop. So.., finally I can get back on the Deuce.

One thing I don't particularly like on many of the fenderless '32s I see is the gas tank hanging on the back end with no protection but a spindly little spreader bar. To me that looks like suicide by fire waiting to happen. "To each his own" they say, but there's no reason to tempt fate that much, especially with the instance of distracted drivers now days. Having said that, my gas tank (fuel cell) is going in the trunk. If someone hits me in the rear end hard enough to get to the fuel cell, I will already be dead of a broken neck and internal injuries.

First pic is my fuel cell sitting on the trunk floor. Obviously it can't sit like that; the floor isn't flat. I propped the tank in place so it sits flat and then used a piece of cardboard to make a pattern of the space under the fuel cell. Next, I cut 3 pieces of pressure treated 2 x 8 according to the pattern.