Bending, Welding, Painting

With the muffler out of the road, it's time to return to the steering column and the painting of the front frame and steering area. The steering column needed another mount added. I got part-way through this job months ago and then realised it would foul the windscreen wiper arm. After fixing that I got distracted by the muggler. It's good to finally get the steering column sorted.

  

Tim came around on Monday and painted it all. It looks much better.

In the meantime, Tim has been continuing on with the brake lines. This is an endless task, but looks great.

The other day I was driving home and spotted a GT40 in the front of Motorsport Accessories, a local shop. I had to go in and check it out. It turns out that it's a well-used race car with a string of trophies to its name. It's running a Ford Cleveland stroked to 363ci (I think) with solid lifters and fed by a Holley carb. It's very nice to see a GT40 that gets used on the track and is still street driven.

Some time ago Richard Knight from gt40s.com asked me to take some photos of the gearshift linkages since he is building a similar kit. Here you go Richard, sorry for the delay..