Re: Hornet, two weeks later

[farna@xxxxxxx]

I'll look up the gear when I get home tonight. I usually "save" the list for reading at work since I can and usually have a little time to kill at odd hours during the day. 

The painted silver wheels with a faux "knock-off" spinner in the center instead of a hub cap should complete the look you're after. The knock-off center cap would definitely give it the euro twist. 

I agree on the extended sail panel idea -- a steel one should be easiaer (or just as easy) as fiberglass since you will have large flat sections. Make it up in poster board and tape to the car. Then flatten out, add a little room for "tabs", cut from sheet steel (20 gauge plain, not galvanized), and epoxy the thing on. Yes, epoxy. Rough both edges up real good, epoxy and screw or rivet. Remove screws or grind rivets then blend in with filler (you should be able to leave some rivet heads where there will be enough filler to blend in). Now if you want to use fiberglass, go to Lowe's or whatever and get a flat fiberglass board, such as used for wall coverings in bathrooms. Then you can cut the large pieces from that and 'glass together. I'd bend the sheet metal to form the crease along the top edge, but you'd have to make the galss part in two pieces and put together with a strip of colth along the top edge. Not as "crisp" an edge that way, but either works. Of course if you co!
 uld find a rusted out AMX...

On June 24, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 farna@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Glad to hear you got the carb and wipers straightened out and the car now drives good. At least you used stock rear gears, so should just be a matter of getting the right speedo gear for the trans. You're using a 904, right? What rear axle? Should be able to look up the gear in a TSM. I have access to all mine now!!
> 
> It's a A904, the axle is 2.73:1, tires are dead-stock diameter,
> 25.3" (205/70-R14's, but equiv. to factory "heavy duty"). If you
> could look it up I'd appreciate it!
> 
> Well I'm obsessed with this particular look, a mid-1960's italian
> touring coupe/american rally car with import-scene interior.
> That's what I'm working towards, that 60's naive cleanliness (that
> teague's original hornet easily pulls off) (though the greenhouse
> is a bit smaller than I'd like, and the wheel flares are 100%
> american).
> 
> I'm actually contemplating minimizing/eliminating the notch in the
> rear quarter: if you look at the early AMX you'll see that's all
> AMC did -- simply brought the sheet metal up higher than the
> notchback-placed rear window! I've never done such work, so it's a
> bit daunting. That sort of stuff is generally done in fiberglas,
> but I'm thinking I'd be better of making a steel cap.


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