Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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Door panels look great Steve, and as for the lettering, he's way, way beyond great!!!!!

Originally Posted by roadster32

The Bigbossman came over to add some lettering to the hood for me, I took a few pics as he worked his way through numerous cups of tea and I don't know how many slices of fruit cake, an olympic fried breakfast & a Roast Beef dinner .

Send him over the pond to Florida, I've got a BIG refrigerator! Awesome style and a great price!

Thanks for showing us!

Originally Posted by rspears

An amazing hand on the Bigbossman! The block letters, crisp and clean, are evidence enough, but that Cadillac script is just amazing! It's hard to believe that he can freehand that style of lettering so cleanly. Amazing!

He certainly da man !!!

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It's amazing work. I really like his technique using the dowel to steady his hand

Originally Posted by stovens

Noticed the long dowel in his other hand while painting, does he use that in some way to steady his hand while painting? Beautiful job on the script! Big Boss man is very talented too!

Steve that dowel is a signwriters Mahl stick, spelt that way i believe because it was originally German, it's for resting the arm on and is rolled as you go, working with Ian is great as he is happy to answer my many questions while he is working, I now know shitloads about sign writing but still can't do it

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Originally Posted by rumrumm

I'm in awe of people who can do things like that. The Bigbossman is awesome!!

Cheers Lynn I will pass on your comments to Ian

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Door panels look great Steve, and as for the lettering, he's way, way beyond great!!!!!

Thanks Dave

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Originally Posted by rspears

An amazing hand on the Bigbossman! The block letters, crisp and clean, are evidence enough, but that Cadillac script is just amazing! It's hard to believe that he can freehand that style of lettering so cleanly. Amazing!

Roger he is a clever bugger thats for sure

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Nice work..........really nice work. That medium grey drop shadow makes it pop.
Did he use a pounce wheel to perforate the paper or does he have some other device?

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Nice work..........really nice work. That medium grey drop shadow makes it pop.
Did he use a pounce wheel to perforate the paper or does he have some other device?

Hi Bob, yes he used a pounce wheel, you can see it in the 2nd pic i believe, the one of the 514 on paper.


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I love the high end mixing can! Who says lunch can't be repurposed!

Weather has been pretty good so another productive day, mostly down to tidying up the little things now.

I cleaned up the aluminium tunnel and glued down some carpet so i could fit my throttle pedal.

I had already set it all up a few months ago on the bench to check it worked ok so it was a pretty straight forward job to fit, Its all fully adjustable and is a Speedway pedal and Speedway bell crank and the rest is home brewed, I was gonna make a bellcrank but the Speedway one is pretty good and works well and is infinitly adjustable plus it was only 15 bucks, not worth making one !!! I made an adjustable stop for the pedal reurn as well.















Next I needed a cable, had a rummage through my box and found some Lokar parts, Fitted them together but because my firewall is 1" thick it didn't have enough thread, 5 minutes in the lathe sorted it out, I also turned the nut into a barrel nut which enabled it to thread together.

I hate the braided look so will put some black heat shrink tube on it,















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Nice setup on the loud pedal, should work great!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Nice setup on the loud pedal, should work great!

Cheers Dave, looks like your progressing too

Well not too much to report due to small bits not here yet from the states, I'm taking the car to the Blackpool indoor show at the weekend and the storm in the states has caused havoc with my parts order as my shippers are in New York and the storm is about to hit

Anyway i've made few changes and one of them was to get rid of the plexiglass screen, the more i thought about the more it seemed to make sense to have a laminated glass screen as this will see a lot of street duty. I'm not sure of the name of the company who cut the screen for me otherwise i would give them a big plug as they made a superb job of it, I supplied them through my mate Gary a plywood template, the edges have been completely polished smooth, just a quality job.

I bonded the glass in and because it was cold the adhesive took a while to cure so a couple of clamps were employed to hold it in place.








I always intended to have a trim around the windscreen that looked like a stock type rubber so I cut a piece of 1/8" ply to shape and then encapsulated it in fibreglass resin to seal it, then it was built to a rough shape with mat & resin, then sanded to shape and a couple of coats of satin black epoxy primer was applied, its still a little shinnier than the look of rubber but it will do for now, i'm gonna try matt black on it later.








Here it is just laid in place but you get the idea. hopefully it won't take long to bond it on tomorrow as its not supposed to rain








I also got my modified pitman arm back from the chromeshop so I have steering at last








While I had the draglink off I changed the trackrod end for a stainless one. I will chrome the steering arm once I confirm everything ratiowise works ok.








All my prop parts arrived ok so a mate picked me up a piece of CDS tube for me but when i started to put it together I noticed a small problem with the tube Need to get another bit I think






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