The Cunning Coupe

[cunningplan]

Here is some more of Brock's workmanship, I wish I could knock up stuff as good as this.
These are what are known as "Bat wings" and help to locate the front axle, there will be one ether side and will have to rods joining the chassis to make the drop tube adjustable for caster. If you look on Black Pig Too, you see that it has only one, that is the norm, using the torsion bar as the bottom link, but for some reason they have used a 4 bar on the Cresent Coupe as well as the torsion bar, so thats what imines going to have. I designed the bat wings and torsion bar link myself and Brock has made them up.

[Manky Monkey]

Ooh, them's pretty! Batwing as in Batman's boomerang thingy? 

[cunningplan]

Just a couple things done last Friday and today, the first thing I done today was check the fit of the spacers, while I had double checked the measurements, its always nice when things do fit as they should.
I stripped the paint off one of the wheels last Friday and done the other this afternoon, I can see why they were painted in the first place (Well they are over 30 years old) and will be painted again, your just going to have to wait to see what colour.

[spanners]

id,e love a set of that style of wheel for my chevy pickup project  something about 10,inch wide for the rear and around about 8,inch for the front   but funds arnt great at the mo and proggress is slow   this weather dont help

[cunningplan]

Now a little more from the Brock workshop.
Again the front set up on the car is a little diffrent to most by having the steering arms and rod in front of the axle and not behind, this is good as we wont have any problems with clearance with the 4 bar or chassis.

[spanners]

I WANT THAT WORKSHOP  complete with contents of caurse 

[SteveRedd]

bugger you Tony...now I have to pull my finger out and get the new workshop built...it's only been 3 years since I dug the footings 

[Blackpig]

I WANT THAT WORKSHOP  complete with contents of caurse 

If you want the contents as well spanners, that will include the bloody great rats that are in abundance and of course the roof that leaks like a sieve. 

[Simple Simon]

Cor, Spanners, it comes with food and running water aswell

[spanners]

Cor, Spanners, it comes with food and running water aswell

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,fresh ,,live,, food for the gaurd dog ,,,,,,,well my jack russell,,,,,,muttely,,, and running water ,,,roof that leaks like a sieve====== free showers 

[brock]

   there are times when I would be quite happy to see the back of it but it would be a bit of a commute for you, trust me, I spent better than a year running up and down to Buxton for work.

[spanners]

aaahhhhhh  ,sunny buxton,, i bypassed it a couple of hrs ago  its on my commuter route betwwen home and my ,other half,s, in cheadle staffs

[cunningplan]

Steve has been hard at work again, I cant thank him enough for what he is doing for me. This time it's the front torsion bar/s and fittings, though these will look like the real thing, they will not work (The same with the Black Pig Too) all the the suspension will be in the chassis itself.

[tbone]

Silly question time from the HotRod idiot (me).... if they aint gotta work.....why have them?

[cunningplan]

Silly question time from the HotRod idiot (me).... if they aint gotta work.....why have them?

Steve is making the front end to look like the original one (Top picture on my site) which did work, its just a lot of very hard work to make it work and in the end it wont do that much in the way of suspension.