Jimmymac & Alistair's Monocoque Cars

[Glenn M]

Anyway there is nothing fancy here, it is a Blue Peter job and involved cutting bits away and replacing them until none of the donor existed.

Well it's a great job, so I hope you get your badge for it James!

 

[JimmyMac]

Got one a long time ago.

You will need a certain Spanish pilchard tin to mold those 2" gauge pots.

 

[Ryan L]

Crikey, and I thought Ozzies had a lingo...... "blue peter job", "certain Spanish pilchard tin"......

enjoy your friday lads.

 

[JimmyMac]

Ryan,
Blue Peter is the real deal mate. You should watch it.
It will give you plenty of ideas.

 

[JimmyMac]

Above is the latest progress on Alistair's car


With lockdown over I am able to get out of the house, so I spent my first couple of days with Alistair fitting out the suspension on my chassis.
We spent a lot of time honing the wishbones and fitting out Shafer bearings and machining bronze spacer bushes.

The beers and curries were great !!

Thanks Alistair for a superb three days, I could not have done it so fast without your time and patience.

 

[Davidmgbv8]

Cracking great sounds to hear. Now I am no expert however I have been studying the front clip brackets and bobbins very closely the last week or so. I think the bobbins may be 180 out on the chassis.......Just jealous that is all!

 

[JimmyMac]

Sure thing - what do you think made me do that ?

 

[Davidmgbv8]

A: so you would no loose them.
B: so you would not hit your shin on them whilst working on the suspension and other bits.
C: to see if any one is paying attention.
D: provides a handy rope sling point for lifting the front of the car with out damaging the paint on the tubes.

How did I do?

 

[Ed McClements]

Great start-up video, but....is that a VM30 in the background? Now I'm really jealous!

 

[JimmyMac]

Eddy
Yes it's a Boxford mill.

 

[JimmyMac]

Who would have thought that today is the tenth anniversary since Ray passed.
Verily, he was a man made of many a good quality.

Exceptionally enthusiastic about all things GT40, his ambition to build a new business aimed at constructing a number of quality GT40 monocoque chassis was tragically cut short with a terminal illness.

Here are some photos of his jigs and tooling he made for his mono construction.
Every piece of his cutting list had a press tool and corresponding assembly fixtures to fit each workpiece accurately with repeatability on his exoskeleton build table.

We still miss him.

 

[Dave Bilyk]

That was awesome work James and at an advanced stage so tragic that he never got to see his dream completed.
Please pardon my ignorance, but has this legacy been passed on or is it just gathering dust? It would certainly be a tribute to it's creator.
Dave

 

[Kevin L]

What an incredible amount of work, quite impressive. It is sad he didn't get to see it finished. Thank you for continuing to post, your creations are wonderful.

 

[JimmyMac]

Ray did get his tooling project finished and delivered the first two chassis' to Alistair and myself, regrettably he did not get to sit in his own.

 

[Ryan L]

One has to ask, what happened to all the tooling?

 

[JimmyMac]

One cannot tell.

 

[JimmyMac]

The finishing line with Alistair's car, the heated screen installed and sealed.

 

[Randy V]

Bravo James!!!!!
What a superb job you’ve done!

 

[Ryan L]

I love reading this thread. The details are fantastic.
is the steering wheel the blue Moto-Lita one?

 

[JimmyMac]

I love reading this thread. The details are fantastic.
is the steering wheel the blue Moto-Lita one?

Thank you Ryan,
Yes it's a Moto Lita.

I got some quality 1/2" nuts for my suspension today, these are British made in bar-turned carbon steel.