Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

Open.
Just like a real door. 

[chopper charlie]

Ha, i was gonna weld the doors up on the gasser, then remembered how high it is, and how short i am

[Manky Monkey]

 

[Cabman77]

The ManFlu product or Loony's metalworking skills BG?
I kinda like the doors welded up. Gives the bodyshell a nice, rounded look, but would make getting in & out kinda difficult.

dooks of hazard 

[Manky Monkey]

Tazet was thinking of having Dukes of Tazzard painted on her Charger.
-NO!
No progress as such on the Pop today, but a bit of a planning meeting between Loony, Terry T & myself. I've ordered a ready made fuse/relay/connector board from Car Builder Solutions. It's about 6 inches square & contains all the relays n stuff we'll need. Plan to mount it in the cab, under the passenger seat. So Tel brought along a ball of string & we laid out a string "wiring loom" to give him some idea of how much of each amperage of wire we'll need & where the connector blocks need to go. He's going to do it all in black, with different coloured heatshrink sleeving tags to identify each circuit.
Wiring means absolutely nothing to me, but I'm pretty sure string won't work, even if we knot it very tightly to all the electrical components.
I'll plod on with routing brake pipes & fuel lines & anything else underneath the truck that needs doing this week & Loony will tackle the other door & sills when he gets a chance. We'll have a bit of a forum get-together & building bash next Sunday to try & bosh out the interior floor & bulkhead panels, then Terry can do his thing with the wiring afterwards. That's our sort of plan thing.

[Manky Monkey]

Bought in a stock of sheet steel after work today from the local supplier, ready for the Manky Pop buildfest this weekend, (a couple of our erstwhile forum members giving up their Bank Holiday Sundays to give us a hand). Appreciate it guys. 
Also received a couple of bits & pieces in the post.
A replica 50s motorcycle horn dip/switch.
The hi/low dip switch I've mounted off the steering column's a bit cheap & nasty & feels like it won't last long. The horn push in the centre of the Morris Minor steering wheel uses a wire that runs down inside the column, but because we've cut & welded the column, adding a solid slug in the middle, it can't. That means an external wire, which would probably coil around the column every time the wheel's turned. So a horn/dip switch in place of the existing dip seemed the answer. I've since found a better one though, so this will probably end up on my chop project.

[Manky Monkey]

And this is the wiring module, containing all the fuses & relays we'll need. This will mount under the passenger seat for easy access, covered by the plastic lid that comes with it. Just plug the wires from each electrical component into the numbered screw terminals. Job done. It comes with a full wiring diagram, but I'm glad I'm not wiring the thing up! Over to you Terry T. 
The switch is a 3 way Lucas toggle, (on/off/on), for the 2 electric fuel pumps, (main & reserve tanks), allowing us to switch from one to the other. It'll sit on the gearbox tunnel between the gearchange & handbrake.

[Manky Monkey]

Polished wooden pick-up bed? Nope, just a couple of old cupboard doors from Loony's workshop, but we haven't had any sort of floor in here before, so I was curious to see what it'll look like.

[poprodder]

good luck andy over the weekend, i'll be living it up at the nats!!! (sitting outa the way more like!)

[Manky Monkey]

Have fun! Planning on doing as many runs & shows as possible in the Pop once it's done, to make up for missing them all this year.

[dobber]

was flogging the burgers down at a ballonfest thinggy at billing and saw this at a little americana thing on same showfield.

[dobber]

looked even better in the sun.

[Manky Monkey]

Cool -but ours will be coolerer.   

[dobber]

do like the look,

[Cabman77]

The switch is a 3 way Lucas toggle, (on/off/on), for the 2 electric fuel pumps, (main & reserve tanks), allowing us to switch from one to the other. It'll sit on the gearbox tunnel between the gearchange & handbrake.

(note to self: must remember to leave clearance for fuel pump switch, must leave clearance for fuel switch, must clear lever for fool switch, mus cleave leaner or fool will sit got it now )