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It starts! - it runs! - it MOVES!!
David Jenkins - 12/5/04 at 08:02 PM

...although it was only 10 yards up and down the drive, it was under its own motive power!




(Strange sensation, after all these years of making)

David

PS: Red-face time - I think I worked out why my contact-breaker dizzy didn't work - several years ago I bought a CVH coil to go with the Bosch electronic dizzy which, at that time, didn't work. So then I fitted the c-b dizzy, forgetting about the coil... and eventually I wondered why the spark was pathetic!

locoboy - 12/5/04 at 08:22 PM

good on ya sir, big grin for a few weeks then

scutter - 12/5/04 at 08:42 PM

well done chap, an event i can only dream off

SVA in no time then.

All the best Dan.

macspeedy - 12/5/04 at 09:10 PM

nice one will be there also soon

stephen_gusterson - 12/5/04 at 09:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by macspeedy
nice one will be there also soon


been there, done that. still a long way from finished tho. But an importants 'wowee' milestone.

its easy to forget its a car you are building!


atb

steve

pbura - 12/5/04 at 11:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gustersonbeen there, done that. still a long way from finished tho. But an importants 'wowee' milestone.


Hmm, don't know about that; from his website, it looks like Mr. J lacks only a bonnet and a handful of nut covers

Way to go, David

bob - 13/5/04 at 07:41 AM

Nice one david,its a nice feeling when you get to that point.

Its an even better feeling when your driving down the road enroute to your SVA test

David Jenkins - 13/5/04 at 07:48 AM

quote:
Originally posted by pbura
Hmm, don't know about that; from his website, it looks like Mr. J lacks only a bonnet and a handful of nut covers


To be exact:

1 bonnet
1 boot cover (probably aluminium)
1 battery strap

plus endless little details to make it right for the SVA.



David

Oh - and an inside mirror!


[Edited on 13/5/04 by David Jenkins]

bob - 13/5/04 at 08:26 AM

I must admit the last leg of the build seems never ending,pre SVA check lists were longer than the build sheet.

stephen_gusterson - 13/5/04 at 08:35 AM

Im talking from my point of view (my car from rolling to finished stage), not davids car!


Do you recon you will have it at a show (newark?) this year David?

atb

steve

quote:
Originally posted by pbura
quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gustersonbeen there, done that. still a long way from finished tho. But an importants 'wowee' milestone.


Hmm, don't know about that; from his website, it looks like Mr. J lacks only a bonnet and a handful of nut covers

Way to go, David


[Edited on 13/5/04 by stephen_gusterson]

David Jenkins - 13/5/04 at 09:42 AM

I don't think it'll be Newark - not enough hours in the day to get the work done in that time, and then get through the SVA.

I'd also want to get a fair number of local miles on the clock before I tackle a 100-mile each way trip!

Maybe a show in September...

David