Picked up a pretty solid GT6+ in Ohio (Sunday 6, June 2010) Destined to be my Vintage Racer. July 9th. about a year later I’m almost ready to go racing…
Brutus performed pretty well for the first event ever and as I drove the car …
Brutus and I had a successfull first ever race weekend at the Canadian Historic Grand …
Many thanks to all the racers, family and partner that rallied to support me for …
Tonight the engine got a scrubbing with degreaser then a hot power wash. Old CAM …
Last weekend I managed to install new ceramic pads in the front along with the …
I cleaned up the pistons last night and gathered up all tha other pieces to …
I took Friday off to get a jump on building a fresh engine for Brutus. …
For race school I had the pleasure of being coached by John who has been …
Thanks to Peter and Mikes awesome cars we had a great display of Triumph Racers …
Down the truck elevator to level 7 and a short drive through the MTCC where …
After a few hours of polishing I carefully tarped Brutus on the neighbors trailer and …
Having been invited to be one of 3 feature Triumph race cars in the Canadian …
Brutus’s first official car show was the Port Elgin Pumpkin Festivals “Cinderella’s Carriage Antique and …
All loaded up for a quick get-a-way after work to Mosport for the first time …
I designed and drafted up a pattern for a nice heavy gauge aluminum fuel cell …
I installed Camero/Corvette 12mm wheel studs for strenght/safety. New Roto Couplings, bearings and seals went …
First Event for Brutus was a great success. 7 runs improving my time each run …
Brakes, Clutch, New Rims & a few other details… Blew out all the brake and …
The new Clutch and Brake Master Cylinders went in last night. I re-piped the clutch …
The past couple of weeks has seen good progress and Brutus is getting real close …
The garage was a good place to be in the heat of the day so …
In the past week the detailing has come together with the race strip and numbers …
Fortunately they still sell the Transtar product so I was able to get the Catalyst …
A few hours of wet sanding and masking Saturday has the main body and drivers …
The weather cooperated this weekend and although I was feeling under the weather with a …
I decided that prior to painting I’d better wrap up all the interior work. So …
I designed my own small car hauler and had a local chap fabricate it over …
Friday morning (May 27), I solvent washed the car, touched up a few minor things …
I thought I’d take a diversion from all the welding grinding, and sanding and stripped …
I managed to get a couple hours in on Brutus tonight and installed the new …
Once the inner beam was installed the rocker and rear quarter dogleg panels went on …
I fabbed up a full length inner strengthening beam and stitched it in where there …
Progress… Cage is finally done so Cliff and I picked up Brutus today. My buddy …
The light gauge Aluminum I picked up worked great for the door skins and I …
Cut out some 3/8” plywood tonight and started laying out the aluminum skin I’ll laminate …
Home sick and bored crazy so I brought up the passenger door and enjoyed sitting …
After cleaning up the surface rust and corrosion I flushed the gear box a couple …
I spend a few hours cleaning the transmission which was showing it’s age, leaking like …
It took about 3 hours tonight after work to strip the engine block of old …
I dropped into a local metal supplier and found some decent, used, light weight aluminum …
I was up 5:30 AM Monday finished painting the small parts I had anti rust …
Great to have an empty recroom at my disposal for all the refurbished and new …
I had a great day yesterday in the garage. On top of getting the timing …
The intake manifold was extremely messed up with a lot of orange over spray, oxidation …
Both pieces came up nice and clean and I finished them off with a solvent …
I stripped the oil pan and timing cover to bare metal, they were both a …
It took about 6 hours of stripping, repairing and painting… The lights are almost better …
Here are the lamps prior to restore. The bulb holders were shot, some pieces broken …
Bumpers came up real nice and should look good in gloss black, just like the …
A little warm spell/thaw and seeing the roll cage almost complete I”m motivated to get …
Finally back to the build and Kent is doing a great job fabbing the cage. …
I picked up dad Saturday and thanks to some late season nice weather took us …
Spent a few hours stripping about 5 layers of old paint of this thing, sanded …
A couple evenings of wet sanding polishing and some gold pin striping I picked up …
Well, the racer build was put on hold for a couple weeks while a packed …
I spent Thanks Giving day tarping up a paint booth in my shop, finish sanded, …
A couple of evenings in the garage this week got the bonnet to an acceptable …
Finished the rough block sanding on the outer bonnet the last few nights, removing a …
Finally back in the man cave and working on the racer. The bonnet is real …
Picked up two nice sets of Rimms from a chap in Ottawa this week. Panasports …
Weekend plans were going down in flames Friday when I learned the place I hoped …
I’m going overspec 1 3/4” .095 DOM tubing (I could use 1.5” but for the …
After a couple more hours of grinder, wire wheel, sander and a solvent/cleaner wash down …
I was just about to finish tacking the last bit under the drivers side floor …
Re Plated the inner rockers and did a little welding and plating under the floors …
Started into the roll cage, cut and tacked in the 3/16” plate mount points for …
Working out the sheet metal work on the floors and in the trunk. Closed up …
I spent a few hours in the garage tonight cutting and fitting cardboard as a …
I managed a few more hours in the man cave tonight cleaning up my welds …
June 27, another 7 hours in the driveway today with the water blaster, solvents, cleaners …
June 25, spent a few hours cutting and welding in 3/32 plate to re-inforce the …
Final stages of stripping out the car prior to building it back up.. Ancilliaries and …
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