Hmm, let me think -do I want some help with this one?
...YES,
YES, YES, YES, YES!!! -please.
My brother, Brock, is heavily involved in the drag racing & rodding scene & far more au fait with the design side of it all, so I'm hoping he'll have the time to get involved too. I just know what I like. Brock's a car guy with a liking for motorbikes. I'm a biker with a liking for cars. Never built a rod from the ground up but did plenty of work on my old Moggy Minors. It can't be that difficult -can it?
Biggest problem will be building with a budget of absolutely zero. Slightly less than zero actually. I want to keep things as 50s period correct as I can so will be re-using as much Pop or similar stuff as I can. Janie & Dave have very generously donated a 1700 Consul engine, (in need of a good check over & rebuild), box, column shift & rear axle. I've got a Sherpa van front beam axle with disc brakes which I was keen to use but Brock keeps telling me it'd be a lot of work, (& expense), to narrow it to fit, so maybe I need an alternative? Not sure the original Pop set up's man enough for the job as the Consul motor weighs twice what the Pop one did.
Not looking to build a glitzy show winner, just a good, solid daily driver.
This is basically the shape I'm after, though obviously without the huge motor & probably with banded versions of the original Pop wheels, (Lunatic knows of a place that does them under licence).
