The Stickboy Chronicles

Alas, another day... another few dollars spent doing something to occupy my overabundant time in purgatory (aka Casper)...
After the ease of the right side tubb, I figured the left side tubb would be no problem-o and take a couple hours tops... there I go thinking again. Things started looking fishy when my cardboard template had a concave curve that the right side template didn't exude...
The first attempt would have left me filling in a 1 inch gap at the rear of the rear well...
Second attempt started looking a lot like the first attempt even though I verified the shape and the fit of the template... So I stopped... waited for Vern to take pitty on me and disassembled the second attempt in order to salvage the sheetmetal...
Third attempt involved the use of a shrinker, lots of hammering and then these miraculous little clamps that Vern found hidden somewhere that do a magnificent job of holding two pieces of sheet metal together so that a single individual can weld said sheet metal without going through a 3-ringed-circus set of acrobatic moves of trying to hold the sheet metal and weld it at the same time all alone....
And behold:

Please pay very little attention to the asymetric aspects of the two tubbs...

Posted by at 10:56 PM | Permalink

Give a Midget more power... it has to be able to do something with it...
The theory here is that it is going to spin substantially larger "meats" as compared to the tractor tires that were on the thing to begin with...

Right side tubb is tacked in place...

Left side is now underway...

Posted by at 9:47 PM | Permalink

Once upon a time there was a little blue MG Midget that for the most part worked... It got a brand new Weber carburetor... It got a bottom and top end rebuild... Typical english car, you don't drive it any further than you are willing to push it...
First it got borrowed and the top got all messed up...
Second it got borrowed and a couple months later I got a call that it wouldn't move...
A few years go buy with the rear end dropped out of it and tucked safetly away in the garage...
Along comes Vern and the idea to 'de-english' an english car...
First you fit the Ford 2300 engine into the car




Second you get a rear end that will actually handle some horsepower

Third you re-engineer the new rear end to fit into the smaller car

This is pretty much where it sits... THANKS TO THOSE WHO FUCKED MY SHIT UP SO THAT I CAN EMBARK UPON THIS!!!

Posted by at 10:29 PM | Permalink