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Made a rear rack from a seamless drapery rod. Gave it the bamboo and copper lug treatment. Sourced the surface board from TEMU. I...

The coconuts are genius, but I also really liked the rack. At this point I might get a small log and carve a tiki with the Dremel, Then...

A shot I hadn't seen of EJ Potter. Did a search and discovered there is some video footage of EJ.

There’s my safety stand. I got about 40% of the top seams done tonight, plus several small welds, front and rear.

We must be getting close to the trial body mount.

I wish, but there is still much welding to do. Today I got more of the floor welding done, and I got the frame rails tied in better at...

I got that bracket welded back tight. I rolled the frame back and forth today, to get all the floor ledger welds. I put on 50 welds...

Dramatic photograph of chassis sitting at 45°. You can see that for safety I’ve got 13 legs and a chain under this thing. The shiny...

Here is the passenger seat arrangement showing the correct risers. But these mount the seat directly to the tin floor and that is no Bueno.

These are the seat rails, and they are adjustable, but there’s no lock on one side. This relies on the seat frame itself to absorb a...

OK, this is one of those fabrication defects. This should line up like so: ..but I forgot to trim the left floor pan. I’m going to...

That helps to picture what is going on.👍

Today I spent most of my efforts cutting up the rest of the jig, and cleaning up all the scraps, grinder dust, paint, dirt etc. Then I...

I did have to invert my big clamp to get things on center. It’s still wrong in this pic. But now I finally have the frame flipped back...

Yes, except left hand drive. It does just ”bolt together”, but it’s really not a sound design. Nor was my original chassis sound. Lots...