Thread: Followed Me Home II

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Thanks for the comments, guys. I truly appreciate any comment that's about the build approach, what's being done, "should be" done, or might be cool! Those things plant seeds in the mind, and when I'm out in the barn all of a sudden become a new approach. I'm also very much in agreement about color choices. The cars that draw my attention are those that stand out because they're not just cookie cutter clones of something that "worked" for somebody else. I'm thinking more & more that I need to go get the paint chips and spend a morning with them

On the bracing, to me the bracing on a fiberglass car is there for only to stiffen the body and help prevent flex that's going to lead towards cracking down the road. The puny 1x1 mild steel tubing cannot be considered a "safety" feature to protect the occupants as it's just not beefy enough or there's not enough of it. I looked at the way the rear loop was done, decided it didn't add enough value to overcome the risks I saw (having been hit from behind with a 70mph differential) so it's gone. That's also why I think it's important to "glue" the body to the steel around the cockpit, to tie the steel and glass together into one integral unit bolted to the frame.