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Well
my buddy Mike Bishop, the photographer/writer said that he would be here today,
so I had to put the old original radiator shell on for the shoot. Luckily the
flaws in the shell won’t show up in the pictures but it’s a little aggravating
that the chrome shop doesn’t have the integrity to stand behind what they say
to people.
I was very excited about Mike coming
because after all of the years that I’ve been building cars I have never had
any recognition for the cars that I’ve built. I am hoping that someone will
like this one well enough to at least mention it or heaven forbid feature it in
a magazine. So before Mike showed up the shell and the headlights went on. I
spent some time cleaning the wheels and wiping down the frame. I put tire
dressing on the tires and polished the chrome. The frame looked so great that
even I was impressed.
Mike showed up right on time and shot
a couple dozen pictures and told me that he would be back for more when I
finished the car. Wow!!!
The steering column is a piece that
I’m very proud of. I have a lot of time in it to get the features that I
wanted. First of all it is all polished stainless steel and aluminum with a
quick release steering wheel. The quick release wheel is because as I’ve said
I’m a fairly large person and I wanted to be able to get in and out of the car
once I put a top on it. I wanted the horn button to be in the center of the
steering wheel, which complicates things with a removable wheel. I also wanted
a self-canceling turn signal switch. I managed to get everything built into the
column that I wanted but it took over fifty hours to do it. The turn signal
switch is one of my favorites, a 67-bug switch. I really like this one because
it’s easy to adapt to a two inch outside diameter round tube and has the high
low headlight switch on the handle. This keeps from having to put the switch on
the floorboards.
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