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She’s clamped onto a steel Barbie doll stand so she won’t blow off the building if the wind comes up. Still it would be pretty thrilling to stand on top of that, and this comes from a guy who in his youth climbed many a tall rock.

@Sniper Keep oxygen at home bro. When you get congested to where you can hardly breathe, use it. Hmmm… Life must be different here because my wife was able to get into the doctor in one day. Well it seems like I have accomplished my first resolution which was to get my car through inspection and get license plates on it. As it turned out it was much easier than I expected in the end. All that is done. I went out an uncovered the Scout And it’s not as rusty as I have feared. Of course I will have to start another off-topic thread about this car.

Their ad server might be trying to push something out your phone won’t take. Not necessarily because Real Truck is doing anything bad, but because their server/service is compromised, or their ad has a bug, or is just really large causing buffer overflows. (This happens all the time on my streaming BD player. I just reboot it because it boots fast.)

OK I got the steering column disassembled and removed so that I could do the first test fitting on the trim plate. It was cold in the garage, so I heated up the plate and the paint with a heat gun, in a box, before I shot the paint. First time that I have been able to actually lay this on the fender, as the steering column is now removed.

Simple as it comes for an OHV-4. I assembled a well scrubbed 1098cc in Mom’s kitchen, when I was 18. It was a Midget dual carb though, and had a PCV device! Also bored .060” over, but I never bothered to calculate the final displacement. It ate the transmission like a bulldog. Big bites.

Thank you. It’s a fun project. I let it languish for quite a while because my wife ticked me off. There’s no reason my wife can’t park outside of my garage. But she demanded to park in the garage. Whenever she demanded to park in the garage I just quit working on the car. It took her almost 6 months to get the message. The thing is, when I got this car I was kind of disappointed. If my wife had not fallen in love with this car, I would have just flipped it; So that crap was a little hard to take. Anyhow today I got around to working on the trim plate for the steering shaft. This was once a chunk of commercial aluminum window sill, 0.1” thick (before I sanded the snot out of it.) Making the rough pattern: Hogging it out: Slitting the slot: Sanded but not buffed:

I put the front plate on with rubber insulated clamps on top, and on the bottom I tapped some 1/4-20s into the fiberglass, which is quite thick at that point. I don’t have all the chrome hardware on yet and those ugly carriage bolts holding the bumper on are not in the same place. I marked the ugly ragged fender tips with blue tape and a sharpie. This is after trimming them off with a cut off wheel, and flat sanding with a long board to make them even. I did some touch up paint with a little brush & some matching red from my huge collection of skateboard paints. There are lots of chips and rough edges which need trimming and filling, but all I did is touchup the bits that you could see easily.

I changed my voltage regulator yesterday. This is the third one and son of a gun, when I started it up it didn’t show a charge. GIRrrrr…. I didn’t occur to me at the time that I might have a defective ammeter, because I did actually see it show a charge and a discharge when I put the electronic voltage regulator on the car. It stopped quick and I blamed the regulator and changed it again. To No avail. After I had shut the engine off I thought to beep the horn and watch the ammeter move, and son of a gun, it wasn’t moving. Then I put a real load on it with the highbeams and son of a gun it really moved. So I think my ammeter is sticky. Temporarily I will clip a voltmeter on the wiring and go drive it today to see what happens.

I remember Mr Bean at the Olympics, and the parachuting Queen. Best fun ever at the Olympics.

That’s kind of what it seems like, riding in the Volkswagen kit car. I can stick my hand out and touch the pavement while I’m driving it.

I just got a huge kick out of the fact that while you couldn’t understand the Japanese narration, you could clearly tell how excited the announcer was to say the words “sports car tire!” Clearly, and in English.

Scientific? Plymouthy, please just let them have their joke. This was the Japanese engineers attempting a joke. I wouldn’t be surprised if they planned the ramp to collapse so that they wouldn’t launch that huge tire into the next town. OK, to be fair, I have no idea what the translation is of the Japanese, and it may not be anything to do with “which tire goes farthest”. I just made that title up after watching the video.

Japanese engineers attempt to find out.

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These brackets are made from flat pressed stainless steel but they are not well engineered. They might’ve been OK if they were twice as thick but even then they would have been wobbly in my imagination. The original car had brackets with some section to them, that were made from pressed steel (painted black) or possibly even castings. I can’t tell from the photos that I have. They mount with the same triangular pattern of bolts, but considerably higher on the car. It wouldn’t bother me at all to make some by hand with a hammer and a torch and a grinder. I live only a mile and a half from one of the top chrome shops in California. I would take them and have them plated. My windshield frame needs to be re-plated badly, so I will be visiting them eventually.

Thanks guys. These things are awful and they need to go.

These are the door latches that are on my off topic project car. I’d like to know what they came from because clearly they weren’t manufactured just for this car. I would hate to toss them because they are at least 42 years old, but if these are just ordinary hardware store parts that are available to this day then they are junk to me. Whatever they are, They are not old or sloppy. This car was never driven much after it was built.

So I have a serious problem with organization right now. I want to work on the Scout but I have the P15 all torn apart, and a whole lot of the parts are in that scout right now. I was planning to do the P 15 first until I realized how much body damage it had. The Scout is much straighter. Since my plan is to cut the P15 up and customize it completely, I may end up selling a lot of it as parts. It really chaps my hide though, that I will be cutting off the straight parts of the car and keeping the most dented parts. I’m going to have to re-organize the garage so I can bring in the motorcycle from my shed, and move all the Plymouth parts from the Scout into the shed & into the Plymouth itself. This would all be simpler if I had another garage.

The Midget could hold 0.88 G’s on the skidpad with stock tires. That was Ferrari territory in 1964. And it was probably just as reliable as any Ferrari ever built.

I had had a big V8 coupe (got smashed) but I owned a little 152cid ‘67 scout while I was in college. I wish I still had it, but at the time I was in love with an MG.

I’ve looked at dozens of photographs of 1937 Jaguars and they all have two lights and two plates arranged approximately like mine. They also have much sturdier tail light brackets, and this is my goal now.

What he did was verify what my original VIN was, and what year the car was manufactured, and what kind of car it was. Then he signed the paper and I took it to the DMV. Call the highway patrol HQ in Fresno and tell them you need a VIN verification for the DMV on your project vehicle. Ask them to send an inspector to your house. You probably need the papers from the DMV in advance, so he will have something to sign. The guy that came to my house had to go to Clovis, West Fresno and Sanger so I’m sure he will come to Reedley.

The license plate and tail light bracket arrangement on this car is really a flimsy business. The original Jag system had the tail lights mounted on a bracket, and the plates were suspended from that. This design has the plate and the lamp and a lamp bracket flapping from one flimsy stamped stainless steel horror. Of course I made this even worse by putting some heavy chrome plated license frames on. Pushing the tail lights out another half an inch and adding lots of weight to the flapping bracket. I was planning to take those brackets off and mount tail lights to the fenders using some model-A brackets. However the model-A brackets do not give me a good angle on the tail lamps, and relocating those will leave a bunch of ugly holes to fill in the back of the car where they are extremely visible. I need to figure out a way to modify the brackets I have to be strong, and at the same time not ugly-up the back of the car.

Well some guys will freak out if I put a Toyota engine in it. But I think my dad would’ve approved. He always wanted a Land Cruiser. But before I do that I will take apart the big four and see what condition it’s in. If I can bore it out and put some bigger pistons in it, It could be pretty cool. But it only has like a Holly 1920 carburetor on the top, so I’m not gonna get much power outa that. But it either needs an engine that will turn 7000 RPM or an overdrive. With 4:88 gears you will not get it much over 60 on the freeway.

I have never driven a Travelall, but I have driven an international bobtail with the big V-8. I had to take milk and eggs and other commissary goods from Hill field outside of Ogden, down to Salt Lake and across the desert to Tooele and Dugway. They also had a Ford truck for those same deliveries but by comparison it felt like a pick up.