All Alloy Cup progress

[Ruairidh Dunford]

What a glorious day it was to visit Bill - the girls are very excited about your beach hut offer, thank you.

Very interesting to compare builds and the challenges it throws up, let’s hope the cars are complete for the gathering.  Here is the man himself!

   

[AllAlloyCup]

The Car to do list

Fix petrol tap, and fuel filter
Grind and paint exhaust manifold, fit.     DONE
Fix valve chest cover with O-ring cord.  DONE
Fix brake light switch and wiring              DONE
Wire umbilical to control panel
Attach steering drag link 
Install windscreen glass(wiper motor holes?)
Paint: throttle shaft, toe board etc refit  DONE
Sort out pedals and gearbox top.            DONE
Test petrol tank and refit ( slosh if need be?)
Make and fit oil pipe
Make and fit handbrake gaiter.  
Adjust brakes refit under-sills.                  DONE
Fit engine in chassis                                    DONE
Fit carburettor and linkages.                      DONE
Make and fit exhaust down pipe 
Refit flitches, cow horns and wing supports
Rewire remaining cabling
Fit new battery cable and battery.            DONE
Finalise floorboards,TransTunnel and seating. SOME
Check starter and dynamo and fit
Time engine with old distributor 
Refit radiator etc and bonnet 
Nickel plate door catches etc, 
Refit doors
Fix headlamps
Attach all wings, side lamps and flasher
Fill all fluids and attend to all greasing points
Finish instruments
Make carpets
Order hood material Make tonneau
Commission hood and side-screens


Steady progress

Regards

Bill G

[Duncan Grimmond]

Love the beach hut! Car's looking pretty good too...

[Chris KC]

Ha! The best bit - ticking things off the list!
Looks great Bill.

[AllAlloyCup]

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Hi Duncan

Needless to say this Beach Hut needed fully restored!

In fact I had to hire a generator for two days to run the sanding machines.
I had some help with the painting though...

Back to the Cup build again today with the floors fitted permanently now?
though still able to be removed easily. Plus added the battery and tool boxes
Transmission tunnel along with the seats held in with Velcro.

Hope to hand stitch a gaiter for the handbrake using some
Spare leather.

New speedo and other cables arrived today from Jamie
At the A7Workshop. Chased the plater again !!!

Regards 

Bill G

Aka AllAlloyCup

[AllAlloyCup]

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I’m trying out some ideas about carpeting the floors
in this Cup. Original cars had half round transmission
tunnels but not sure if these were just painted?

Did Cups have carpets or just rubber mats?

I acquired a front part transmission cover with some bits I bought
Probably off a fairly early Chummy, or a Box?

So I have made a matching rear rectangular tunnel cover.
And will either carpet both covers or cover them in the blue leather
which I have loads left.

As regards a gaiter for the handbrake how did
The factory fix the gaiter to the square cover in the photo below?

Hope some Cup owners can shed light on these queries!

Regards

Bill G

Ps With a square tunnel you can stand a flask of tea and two (tea)cups!

Aka AllAlloyCup

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Original Cups were carpeted bill, see here:  



All of the original handbrake covers I have seen are unpainted aluminium like this (Hedd's car):





There was no gaiter on the type of transmission cover you have, originally.

[AllAlloyCup]

Thanks Ruairidh, that Fred Dash car is a remarkable
survivor. Will our Cups last as long I wonder?

Regards

Bill G

[JonE]

really interesting to see the location of the Quote numbers tags on the door trim.. are those typical?

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Looks to be.