Thread: Bad to the "A-Bone".

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Daver, You have made some great improvements to your A. Can I ask several questions to help constructing my '29 roadster from scratch? I really like your dash and I will look up the Wabbit site, but I have two other questions.

1. I have a Brookville frame with a flat zigzag bulge around the rear pumpkin (8" Maverick) so I wonder what brackets are needed to attach the '32-style gas tank? There must be something other than the bolts to the fenders? I ask this because I am trying to decide between saddle tanks and a '32-style tank.

2. In one of your other threads you showed nice pictures of your brake system. I am just sweating out location of a power brake unit from TCI on my Brookville frame. Even with a 1" notch in the Brookville crossmember the best I can do is locate the center of the brake pedal pivot 41 1/4" from the front radiator hole and "Curt" at Brookville says that is correct, but the TCI instructions say the distance should be 41 3/4" which would require a deeper notch in my crossmember. I am just trying to check this before final welding. So do you have a power brake unit and if so do you have any way to measure the distance from the radiator bolt to the brake pivot? Maybe the steering and exhaust headers are now in the way of the measurement?

3. What is the paint on your rear fenders? I would say some sort of dark metallic aqua, but what do I know? Do you recall the actual paint used?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder