Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Interesting sentence structure............................

Steve, that bolt end is pretty neat, but I'm reallllllyyy disappointed in you none the less. I would expect that you'd have figured out how to engrave your naked lady logo on each as the topper! Come on man, you've set a very high bar.....now reach for it!!!!!!!!

Bob you guys are way OTT with stuff

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Steve, that bolt end is pretty neat, but I'm reallllllyyy disappointed in you none the less. I would expect that you'd have figured out how to engrave your naked lady logo on each as the topper! Come on man, you've set a very high bar.....now reach for it!!!!!!!!

I don't think one of Bob's beauties would grace any vehicle!
Steve I'm curious where you learned all this stuff too! And I agree with you 100%, that when you can find pre-70's machinery your buying an airloom piece that will last a long time, unless the words Lucus appear anywhere on it!!!!!

Its infuriating,isnt it,Gary.. The guy has so many little tricks up his sleeve,its just mind boggling.. Its good to see the pix,though,cos at least we can folow what hes up to,,and try to copy him..Steve,,you are inspirational..(there,thats my second big word for the day)..
Steve(US),,havent seen a can of Lucas wiring harness smoke for years...I think Johnboy has one for his AC Cobra...

Langy is taking on a new meaning!
Seriously gt40's are about as cool as they come! Le Mans is one of my favorite movies with Steve McQueen.

Mostly bits & pieces done today, nothing worth a picture but i did get my headers done in white and wanted to see what they looked like so bolted them on with a few bolts, Its just the look i wanted.

nice looking set of tubes on their Steve! The three bar on the end of the cannon really looks good! Know what you mean on the bits and pieces work, sometimes a guy can work on a project all week and it looks like you went backwards on the progress!!!!!

Exactly how i felt today Dave, I managed to clear quite a few small jobs off the list and at teatime it looked like I had done very little !!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

nice looking set of tubes on their Steve! The three bar on the end of the cannon really looks good! Know what you mean on the bits and pieces work, sometimes a guy can work on a project all week and it looks like you went backwards on the progress!!!!!

I thought it was Cider time!

I would like to know how your going to keep them white ...Not fire the engine???? They do look good

These have been on Sues car 8 years Charlie, I just freshen them up every couple of years.

Originally Posted by cffisher

I would like to know how your going to keep them white ...Not fire the engine???? They do look good

I was sat in the drivers seat the other night and realised i couldn't reach the dash when strapped in, I needed the important switches closer to me.
I solved this with a glassfibre box which was moulded off a washing sachet container.
I aim to mount this with some stainless tube between the seats and run the wiring through the tube so its hidden.
I thought a nice finned top plate to hold the switches might be nice, thickest bit of aluminium plate i had was 1/2" so a quick call to my mate Allan and he had some 3/4", He also kindly offered to mill the slots in it to save me some time.

First the 3/4" aluminium plate was cut.








Next it was marked out and drilled and counterbored.








Next the grooves were ball milled into the plate.








Next to get sloping sides on the fins the plate was tilted at 14 degrees and the sides of the fins got a pass with the cutter.








What we ended up with.








Next the shape was marked out and the excess cut off.










The ends of the fins were then curved.








Next job was to remove all the sharp edges and replace with nice radius's and give it a quick polish to see how it looked.







The original switch knobs were not gonna cut the mustard so new ones were made from some 1" stainless round bar.













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Simply amazing Steve what you and your good friend Allan can turn out. As Steve in the USA said, that damn bar is so high now, I could hang myself from it !!!!

I'm getting alot of ideas from your posts.
Nice knobs and plate.