Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Nice long fruitful day in the garage today... my missus had a bit of a shock when my alarm went off at 8'ockock, so that I could be in the garage at 9am, and worked til' 6pm... keen to get it done for when this pandemic finishes, lockdown ends, and we can get back out in the countryside...

I'd been thinking about things in the shop this week, one of my staff was off, so I spent 13 hours most days at the till, looking at progress photos from this build thread on my iPad, it keeps me going on long days of getting pissed off with (old) customers not having a clue about social distancing for their safety and the safety of others, so I was keen to get out in the garage for the day, rock tunes on Spotify, and the kettle not far away...



One of the things I'd thought about... so I remounted the headlight to work things around...



I then spent some considerable time measuring and re-measuring, and cutting up some box section...



How do you make box section curves?



All welded up!...



Lovely!



Out comes the angle-o'meter to work out the a-pillar tubes...



To make another order for Tom "tube-bender" on eBay...



Some more CAD (Cardboard Aided Design) Keithy



To make upper mounts for the front lorry wheel arches...



And weld them to the new inner arch to slam panel bent box bits...

Note also the lower mount at sill level on the door post that has also been welded up and finished...



Extreme-CloseUp! (Wayne's World reference!) :lol:



More "CAD"...



And that's how I ended the day, getting there slowly...

But, I was thinking about this in the shop too... I've still got to replicate all this for the other (Alan's) side yet too! :LOL:

Ah well, keeps me busy during lockdown!

More soon, hopefully Wednesday...

Off for a Chinese "fakeaway" with the family, and a couple of (more) cold beers!

It looks brilliant Dave!

That's another step closer. More good work.

A but more today...



Made the other front wheel arch bracket, and two for the back wheel arches, and a loop for the spare wheel strap to attach to...



Like that to match the front ones...



Spare Wheel strap will clip on to this...



I then clamped the two fuel pipes and took the old filler assembly off, reworked it all, and ended up with this



I had to adjust the filler and return tubes a bit so they didn't foul on the waffle boards, I'll add some plate to the corner of the outside bottom right waffle mount to stop any rubbing...

How much of a little lay down are you expecting to have if you're caging the filler cap? That's my favourite bit so far!

:lol: Thanks... yes, the filler cap had to match ? I was just lucky there was already a locking petrol cap under the flap... saved me buying one!

Glad you like it