1963 E type historic race car

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It's always useful to photograph parts like these ,then you can check that you get back everything that you send .

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A visit from cousin Lee who has made a start on the base plates for the roll cage .

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Fabulous.

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Removing the fuel filler.
Drilling out all the spot welds .

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The fuel filler is now redundant as an alloy race tank will be fitted in the boot and a filler built through the boot lid .

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Cousin Lee Follett of FG Fabrications checking the radius of a bend before doing one for real .

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More progress

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Getting there .

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On consultation with the owner it was decided to get his bonnet to fit properly then paint it and put it in to storage in case it might be needed in the future.
Despite many spacers on the front the bonnet was tight on the baulkhead and overlapping on the cills .
It was trimmed by up to 1/4" in places and some spacers removed .

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An acceptable gap was achieved .
A trip down to Cornwall in the new year for the new alloy bonnet from a trusted supplier, and another trip to collect an alloy hardtop .
It's preferable to collect large items direct from suppliers as it's very often ,cheaper and less chance of damage and therefore more time and cost effective.

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With the original bonnet now sorted it was removed and the front of the car stripped in preparation for modifications for racing .

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The hardtop is just used to get the dimensions for the roll cage fabrication.
Now the workshop is back to regular working time after the Christmas break the work has resumed on the E type .

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What period are you going for, pre or post ‘63?

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Oneball said:

What period are you going for, pre or post ‘63?

I have just asked Peter the guy building it and it's going to be post 63 ,club 100 , appendix K .
If that makes sense !
Lots of contradictory rules ! Lots of areas open to interpretation and seemingly areas that many ignore.