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« Reply #9840 on: September 23, 2017, 08:42:23 PM »

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« Reply #9841 on: September 24, 2017, 06:53:54 AM »

Will there be enough room vertically to drop the hoop over slugs ? Or would you be better off using locating stubs (short slugs) and bolt plates welded on ?
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« Reply #9842 on: September 24, 2017, 07:36:11 AM »

I've got 50mm of vertical clearance Dave. Thought about making an overlapping joint -a semi circular slug on one piece bolting to a matching one on the other, but welding to the car is awkward now in the lock-up, especially with glass & upholstery panels fitted. That's why I'm not using a grinder to cut away old bits of bulkhead.
I thought about slicing a length of tube in half along it's length to make a bolt on clamp, but decided a slug, bolted in with a couple of 8mm bolts, would be stronger.
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« Reply #9843 on: September 24, 2017, 09:41:09 PM »

Bumped into the Wizard today at Popstalgia in Leicestershire, (unsuprisingly, a show for Pops, Prefects & Fordson vans).
This car was my first love. The one that sparked my interest in hotrods, or custom cars as they were called then, & Pops in particular.
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« Reply #9844 on: September 24, 2017, 10:00:02 PM »

It appeared in Custom Car magazine in 1974, when I was 12 & in it's 70s guise of metalflake yellow & orange, with mis matched American Racing & slot mag wheels, blacked out windows & deep buttoned red dralon interior, was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
Even then, it wasn't the most radical Pop around. It had a flip front & flip up body, but so did several others at the time. Maybe it was the paint. Maybe the name -any custom worth it's salt had a name back then, but The Who had recently launched their Tommy album & the film came out a year later, fixing the name Pinball Wizard in the popular conciousness. Maybe it was that it went everywhere -I remember seeing it drag racing at Blackbushe, cruising in Chelsea & showing at Ally Pally & Olympia. Maybe it was the classic collection of parts -big V8, Viva front suspension, Jaguar rear.
Whatever it was, it was the right car, at the right time, to become iconic. A legend. The 'flake paint's gone, replaced by straight Ford signal yellow, painted by our own Go Forest, the interior's now black & the wheels are 90s directionals. I owned one of it's old Mopar engines for a while & ex forummer Dave Two Lanes owned the original fibreglass flip front, still in the original paint -but it's still Pinball Wizard.
This car's responsible for an awful lot of long nights in the garage, wrestling with my own Pop! Smiley
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« Reply #9845 on: September 24, 2017, 11:07:53 PM »

My mate was riding along with Baldy in his fordson (hot n bothered )  cruising about 80mph along the Westway heading for Chelsea..the wizard pulled up next to him..smiled,floored it..wheel spun (at 80 remember ?) and was gone..Baldy turned to my mate and said ..F£@/ I've gotta get a bigger engine ? Cheesy
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« Reply #9846 on: September 25, 2017, 08:27:38 AM »

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« Reply #9847 on: September 28, 2017, 03:58:48 PM »

Browsing the 'net, I've realised the key to carrying my motorcycle in my Pop is to get a smaller motorcycle.
No, it's not my truck. Mine's rustier.
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« Reply #9848 on: September 28, 2017, 06:44:17 PM »

Sitting in the cab with a bit of broken hacksaw blade, trying to cut through the welds holding an unwanted bit of 1" box section bracing left over from the previous owner. It's like those cartoons you see of prisoners sawing through their cell bars with a nail file. 3rd afternoon of sawing so far.
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« Reply #9849 on: September 28, 2017, 07:30:56 PM »

you got one of these andy?

http://www.flinn-garlick-saws.co.uk/acatalog/PADSAW%20001%202012.jpg
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« Reply #9850 on: September 28, 2017, 07:35:21 PM »

Got one of these if you want to borrow it................

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Bosch-1100W-Reciprocating-Saw-GSA-1100-E/p/156489












..........................probably a bit late to offer! Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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« Reply #9851 on: September 28, 2017, 07:39:33 PM »

No Chris. Used to have, many years ago. Don't think I've got the room to get it in there though.
I'm sawing through a couple of 1" welds along the underside of a 6" long bit of box section. Eventually it must cut through, but feels like I'm not so much cutting, more just wearing it away. Don't want to use the grinder cos I've got glass, upholstery, perspex sunvisors etc in there, but may have to in the end. Another of those jobs I'm doing now so I don't ever have to tackle it again in the future.
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« Reply #9852 on: September 28, 2017, 07:42:35 PM »

 Cheesy Don't think I've got the room to get that in there either! It's in the driver's footwell, above the pedals. Just a bit of old box section welded to the bulkhead that's no longer needed. So I'm just tidying it up, that's all. A quick 5 minute job that ends up taking a week & makes you wonder why you ever bothered!
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« Reply #9853 on: September 28, 2017, 08:11:55 PM »

will take ages if its the weld your trying to cut through!!!!! good luck.
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« Reply #9854 on: September 28, 2017, 08:42:03 PM »

I know. Sad
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