Musings on Design for a Special

[Jamie]

Thank you for the suggestions and comments. Recently, I found some sketches of a car which I did when I was still at school and I remember day dreaming about building it for real one day. I have realised that those drawings are very similar to the open top design I have posted.

Tom: yes, I shall introduce some bracing, but I am not sure where, yet. I have sat in a box saloon which had had the roof chopped and lowered and the seats bolted to the floor. Otherwise, it was cosmetically standard. It looked good, but felt claustrophobic and the windscreen was like looking through a letter box.

Howard: I have seen somewhere pictures of an Australian Ruby Roadster which was rather nice.

Duncan: I agree that having no doors, or at least just a part door would be easier, but I really cannot imagine my wife clambering in, over the side of the thing. Good points about leg room and knee space. I shall need to do a fair bit of checking and experimenting with layouts. My son is well over six foot, so I shall need to make sure that it will accommodate him as well.

Derek and Tim: thank you for the links to the Chris Gould Epsom special. I shall have a good look at that as it looks good.

Once I get started, I shall post updates. Before that, though, I need to put up a new garage.

Regards,

Jamie.