Ian Anderson
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I have a small problem - it's called the wife!
She will not accept that the garage needs to be widened.
So I am stuck with a 7 foot wide garage at the end of a shared driveway.
At the moment I push the GT40 out the garage and push it down between the 2 houses (about 4 inches each side and I'm not brave enough to try reversing it yet)
To steer it I have the drivers side window out and reach through to turn the wheel as necessary.
Once at the front of the house I get out the window, screws and screwdriver and fit the window.
Returning home is the reverse procedure. Unscrew window and push car into garage with arm through window (Yes I have pushed it over my own foot twice)
So can anyone come up with a way to make a window that will slide (like the BMC Mini ones perhaps, open enough to reach through to steer the car, flap open like the Citroen 2CV but still look reasonably correct on a GT40?
I had thaught about velcro fitting the window but not sure on how good this would be and if with the ram air ventilation into the cockpit if it would just blow the window out. (LE Mans Laps with only 1 side flap open and it pulled out one rivnut securing the window - not major but at 140 mph abviously a lot of air moving! Road speeds do not appear to pose a problem.)
So ideas please - must be some easy way to do this.
Thanks in advance
Ian
She will not accept that the garage needs to be widened.
So I am stuck with a 7 foot wide garage at the end of a shared driveway.
At the moment I push the GT40 out the garage and push it down between the 2 houses (about 4 inches each side and I'm not brave enough to try reversing it yet)
To steer it I have the drivers side window out and reach through to turn the wheel as necessary.
Once at the front of the house I get out the window, screws and screwdriver and fit the window.
Returning home is the reverse procedure. Unscrew window and push car into garage with arm through window (Yes I have pushed it over my own foot twice)
So can anyone come up with a way to make a window that will slide (like the BMC Mini ones perhaps, open enough to reach through to steer the car, flap open like the Citroen 2CV but still look reasonably correct on a GT40?
I had thaught about velcro fitting the window but not sure on how good this would be and if with the ram air ventilation into the cockpit if it would just blow the window out. (LE Mans Laps with only 1 side flap open and it pulled out one rivnut securing the window - not major but at 140 mph abviously a lot of air moving! Road speeds do not appear to pose a problem.)
So ideas please - must be some easy way to do this.
Thanks in advance
Ian