Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

I also cut the other side panel & made up the insert to lengthen it.

[Manky Monkey]

The final piece to go in will be a curved section below the bonnet sides. I cut these from the original inner wing panels. As well as tying the rad grille to the body to make it stronger, they'll give the bonnet sides something to locate against.
More importantly, they give a nice sweeping curve from the doors, right up to the grille. Just propped in place for now so I can see where to trim them.

[Manky Monkey]

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[poprodder]

ready for test next week then !!!!!   lol

liking the bonnet lots.

[Manky Monkey]

I wish! A l-o-n-g way to go yet, & not much time to do it in.
This afternoon's job was to trim the inner wing panel down, notching it over the exhausts & welding the front edge where it runs into the grille shell. Once Loony's fully welded that, I'll cut it just behind the headlight mount & add some tabs so it can be bolted in place -needs to be removable to gain access to the exhausts etc.

[madron]

i like the idea of using the lower inner wing piece to tidy up the bonnet sides looks quite professional and finishes it off well coming on in leaps n bounds now andy

[Manky Monkey]

Cheers Ron. 
I've been slicing my hands to pieces for the last week or so -all the bonnet pieces have razor sharp edges at the moment. Definitely gotta weld some edge beads on them.

[poprodder]

will your rad pipe rub against spring/axle? looks close or is it pic angle?

nice work, soon be done!!!!  lol

[Manky Monkey]

It does run between the spring & axle, but it's a coil spring reinforced hose & the spring doesn't really move that much -it'd have to compress almost flat before it touched the hose.

[Manky Monkey]

Archie's working on his V Dub at the workshop today, so I've taken a day off, (not a lot of room for 2 projects at the same time & I could do with a break anyway). I piled some of the Pop parts in the pick-up bed so they wouldn't get lost.
Loony's just sent me this piccie. 

[poprodder]

lol  very good.

[Bus Boy]

lol....only problem i can see is your not sposed to tell yer gullable buying public how many issues there gonna have to fork out for!!!!! and how many million pounds the following issue are! oh i'm so cynical!!!!!

[Cabman77]

lol....only problem i can see is your not sposed to tell yer gullable buying public how many issues there gonna have to fork out for!!!!! and how many million pounds the following issue are! oh i'm so cynical!!!!!

cynical`s good 

[Manky Monkey]

Well, the Bank Holiday weekend should've seen 3 whole days of Popolgy but, as usual, things didn't go quite according to plan.
I took the Saturday off, mainly so Archie could use the workshop space to work on his Volkswagen, but also cos I just needed a break from it all for a day.
Then Taz managed to get a rare day off work on the Sunday, (she runs a livery yard & hasn't had more than 2 days off in the last 6 months). She fancied going to the Mopar muscle car meet at nearby Brooklands museum -so who was I to say no. We had a very pleasant day out.
So Monday was supposed to be a workshop day. Nope. Taz's staff all decided to take the day off sick, so I was volunteered to help shovel horse poo for the day.
Ahh well. So it was back to the 'shop after work this afternoon to continue with the bonnet. A little trimming & we had the second hinged side tacked in place. Now we has wings.   

[spanners]

doe.s that meen it can fly then