Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

Meanwhile, I've been tinkering with the front mudguard mounts. I bent some short lengths of 30mm flat strap to the profile of the guards & bolted them in place underneath them, then tacked the tubular struts on.

[Manky Monkey]

Seems to work. The rear struts need to be angled a little more than I'd originally planned, to clear the brake calipers, but should be O.K. I reckon they look better than just a couple of bits of flat strap bolted on as an afterthought. If you have to have guards, they might as well be tidy ones.

[Manky Monkey]

The lights on top of the guards are the front indicators -orange bulbs behind frosted white glass lenses. Again, if you have to have them, why not make a feature of them. I'll feed the wires down inside the struts. Loony's decided they should be painted red or green cos they look like chilli peppers sat on top of the guards. His Dad reckons orange cos they look like carrots.
No. They'll be gloss black. So there.

[Manky Monkey]

 

[TwistedPatience]

Looking good Andy, lovin the mudguards

[afghanman]

How much of a sweep are you getting Andy?

[Manky Monkey]

On the wipers? Don't know yet cos the motor doesn't work. Apparently the casing should be marked with a number between 95 & 130. The higher the number, the more travel there is on the cable, but I can't see any figures like that on mine. The wiper pivot points are very close together, but obviously I'd like to wipe as much of the screen as I can.
I plan to visit Kris from Pop Browns on my day off on Tuesday to get another motor, so will get his advice then.
Once the front guards are done, I'm going to go back & brace the back ones a little more. Visitors to the workshop have a habit of leaning on them, so I want to beef them up a bit. The guards themselves are hand-made in aluminium, with a raised bead down the centre, punched in with a hammer & chisel. They're not perfectly symetrical, with slightly different radiuses & widths, which means each one has to be tweaked to fit, but I kinda like that. More interesting than something mass produced & suits the battered old shop truck look we're going for.   

[panthershaun]

you can alos get different gearing on the wheel boxes as well Andy, as I found out when one went on my Spitfire and I fitted one from a reliant and the sweep was not so great  looking good mate.. hoping to get back on mine soon if the RM stop farting around with my shift patterns 

[poprodder]

looking mighty sexy in the b/w pics.
love the guards.

[Manky Monkey]

Maybe I should paint the whole car in various shades of white, grey & black, (it's not far off that already). Things always look classier in monochrome don't they.

[triker_Chewie]

gloss primer grey?

[BikerGran]

Looks good the way it is!

[Manky Monkey]

Black & surface rust Bobbi?!
I keep making shiny new parts, then coming back to them the next day to find a film of rust on them. Just handling bare metal with your hands is enough to make it oxidise. Sometimes you can actually see finger prints of rust. Weird.
Chewie, Taz's trike will be gloss grey -if we ever get back to working on it. Id've liked her Charger that colour too, but she's going for a more modern looking metallic gun metal grey instead. I'd originally planned to paint the Pop in fern green, a standard Ford colour, but when I bought it, it was in gloss black & it's just grown on us -looks more vintage somehow.

[BikerGran]

Black + primer + surface rust - I once saw a bike that had been very cleverly painted to look that way!

[Manky Monkey]

Most of my bikes have just naturally looked that way. Talking of shiny new bits, all 4 front mudguard struts have been tacked in place & the right-hand ones fully welded, then roughed out to the right shape with the angle grinder. They're welded to the brake caliper plates, so they'll turn with the wheels. I've trimmed the plates a little to follow the lines of the struts. A bit more weld to fill the low spots & some time with a hand file & they'll be done.