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The roadster is now back off the frame so I can tackle the extra bits needed on the frame to suit Qlds TAC rules...(don't get me started!)

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The new mount for the booster had to be 6mm plate..(wtf?), ....and to allow me to "C" the frame, have to use 10mm x 50mm x 450mm over the top....rules is rules, but I reckon it is "over the top"......what happened to good ol fishplates....and in the USA....don't bother using any of this!!

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Anyway...there's the flat I have to form for the C, and the So-Cal spring and hangers and Pete & Jakes ladder bars, and 31 spline 56" wide roundback 9" all fits nicely, but I had to notch the Vintique fuel tank to clear spring mount.

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I bought a scattershield for the Toploader, and this will enable me to use a hydraulic clutch on the LHS, as the bellhousing I had with RH fork was getting a bit tight on the other side. I have also purchased a Jeep T 176 shifter assembly to go on the toploader, will make it a lot easier than having to fit a factory or Hurst style shifter

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The frame as it came from the US will not fit our rego rules, so two upper tubes going forward from the ladder bar x member will be fitted, as well as an extra lower one under the ladder bar x member, then two on either side coming back from there to the rear, following the angle of the ladder bars...somehow I also have to get mufflers and pipes thru as well, might just use those internal spiral baffles you can slip up a 2 1/2" tube...will see what's avail on my trip to USA next week....

May 12th.."Ethels bottomless esky" coffee morning

Saturday morning coffee run at Les Winters shop, really good rollup, will do this more often! It was the day before Mothers Day, so special significance from some of our rodders remembering Ethel Winter. None of us went hungry at a rod run when she opened the bottomless esky...

Les has the new drab olive on the coupes frame, and long time rodder Dave Winter seen explaining to Tom Fulton that these old cars really are cool with Flatheads in them!..well, I think that's what they said..David was probably explaining how much room his Hemi will take up in his new Deuce sedan.

Lots of new cars, and new faces, so hot rods are here to stay.

Recently registered is this Ex New Zealand roadster...good to see it back on the road, it's been in the same family for years, but glad its now back on the road..hope to see it again at our 32 run in September.

Les still has the "ol 55" sitting in the back of the workshop..but 2500hp thrills have taken a back seat to hot rods again, and the main project is to have the Model A sedan delivery back on the road for the 3013 nationals on the Gold Coast

What a view..this has the word "HOT ROD" written all over it!