Don't give up your day job, Mark.

Kapunda - week 24

This must be Valiant City.

Is this the new prototype De Tomaso Pantera?

Mark 4B for sale.

For Sale
Bolwell MK 4B 

·      A brand new MK 4B body (straight from the mould) made by Fibercar, with Coremat strengthening.

·      Light weight tubular chassis to suit, made by or for David Bruce.

·      Numerous other bits of Mazda origin.

·      Some rose joints for suspension.

·      $10,000 ono

 Please call Scott Baxendale for further details  08 8338 1932 or 0428 827 226

Dauphine

A Renault Dauphine.

Oh look! It's got a Goggo Dart windscreen for a back window.

Wedding Aston.

Not just any Aston. It's a Seychelles Blue 1969 DB6 MkII Volante. It belongs to Charles and his Mum gave it to him for his 21st. Kate and William are not the first bride and groom to take the old man's pride and joy for a lap around the block after the wedding. I can think of a few from around here.

Nagari project for sale - just assemble.

McArlus Cars - 20

I won’t spend a lot of time on this update as the pictures didn’t come out that well, sorry!

I have “thrown a bit of trim” at the interior.

The fibreglass panels are covered in what I have always called “frontrunner” a slightly prickly very man made type of fabric, that wasn’t my first choice, but I couldn’t get the vinyl to stretch around the corners, or wrap around the edges as well.

I have also covered the seat are in foam and vinyl. It is fairly comfy with some additional support under my thighs and on the outside of each knee, that were never in the yellow car.

Should be a good starting point, though I may have to get some expanding foam to properly pack the saet back.

That can wait for some later fine tuning.

It certainly improves the look of things a lot, and I should have done it sooner as the seat panels no longer scratch everything as they are taken in and out.

Regards

Simon

McArlus Cars - 19

For a while I have had some concerns about the fuel tanks, but because they hadn’t been needed, they were typically out of sight and out of mind.

Now that we are getting well into the final assembly stage, it is time to address the concerns.

The tanks were made with short pieces of aluminium tube welded in to connect to rubber fuel line. There are two at the top of the tank, which act as 1, a breather and 2, a potential return line, and two on the side that are the fuel pickup, and a spare in case a second pickup was required in case of fuel surge.

These pipes were supposed to be 10mm ID tube, but somehow ended up as 8mm OD, resulting in a far smaller opening. They also had 90 degree bends in them, and the breather ones that I could see looked dangerously crimped, so I was concerned about the pick ups that were also bent 90 degrees, but that was invisible within the tank. (Unfortunately I don’t have good pictures of this so you will need to bear with me!), but you can just see the old welded up holes in the end on picture of the welded tank.

There was also a mismatch in the alignment of the fuel pickup in the tank and the fuel filter (which is only 75mm from the tank) and pump that I was not happy about, although in retrospect I could have made a loop in the rubber fuel line that would have solved that problem, there is really no need for it to go the absolute shortest distance that I can see.

Anyway, after must procrastination I decided to modify the tanks, especially as they had never had fuel in them, so now was the time. When I cut off the fuel pickups that had been welded in I was very glad that I did. As they were welded, obviously the aluminium has melted into the tube, partially blocking them. I apologise for the fuzzy pictures, but this problem was impossible to see until I cut the old pickups off.

The way I wanted to do things meant that each step required welding in stages, which I can’t do.

I started by machining some bushes that are tapped ¼ BSPT one side and take the 10mm aluminium tube, bent, not crimped 90 degrees on the other. This is the first welding process.

Next I made a plate that the bushes and tube fitted into. The bushes, complete with welded tubes are then welded to the plate. This plate is then welded into the tank complete. By doing it this way, I was able to be sure that the pickup tubes were both in the bottom of the tanks and that the outlets from the tank were in the correct place.

I made a similar tapped plate for the top of the tank to take similar screw in fittings.

In retrospect, the tank design could have been better.

I could have created a sloping base and/or a “sump” that would have helped with fuel surge problems. I could have used screw in fittings from the outset, and always will in the future.

The outlets could have been positioned better to allow for better alignment of the fuel line.

But as always, we live and learn!

Regards

Simon

Fuel Tank Blocked Tubes.

Fuel Tank Parts to Weld In.

Fuel Tank Welded.

Fuel Tank Installed.

"85 AGP - just one more.

Here's one I missed.

Special Interest Vehicle Register.

This is for South Australians only but is of interest to SA BCCA members and should be an agenda item at the up-coming meeting. A letter has arrived from the Federation chairman together with a survey regarding Special Interest Vehicles. Anyway, have a read and we'll talk about it on Tuesday night.

Fellow vehicle enthusiasts,

While it is not a part of the Federation of Historic Motoring Clubs (SA) charter in catering for modified
vehicles, we do have a seat on the SIVG committee as it has a likely effect on the Conditional
Historic Vehicle Registration Scheme (CHVRS) we all currently enjoy for our unmodified vehicles.
The SIVG are trying to obtain a similar scheme to achieve a more equitable Registration scheme for
what are enthusiast vehicles that are driven irregularly.

We are comfortable that the proposal being discussed will not have an adverse affect on the current
scheme, and we are committed to ensuring that remains the case.


I ask that you take the time to assist in this task by completing the survey form and returning the
(scanned) survey results direct to:  Mark Moses c/o
mark.moses@flinders.edu.au<mailto:mark.moses@flinders.edu.au> or
Robert Riggs c/o picnic2010@optusnet.com.au<mailto:picnic2010@optusnet.com.au> or fax
84045520 or ph 0403582140

Regards,
Steve

Stephen Henderson
President FHMC SA

Phone:  +61 8 8343 7974
Fax:      +61 8 8343 8001
Mob:    +61 (0)408 494 864
email:   stephen.henderson@baesystems.com<

Easter Collingrove.

Some great shots from John Lemm of Larry and the Torana.