John you just threw me for a loop. I never envisioned you all tatted up. That's the only bad thing about these boards and having friends all over the country. You get to know each other but you really never know each other. That's a good look for ya though. Now I see the custom car/biker influence. Do you do Rock-a-Billy? Mark
Sir Markus UmissedThatOne Eous...... I am sure I have posted that picture somewhere on this forum sometime ago.
Told ya I didn't look like that "dumb-a$$ guy.... Ha!!!!
When I was a "kid" I used to draw one my arms and NOW look at me!!!! L o L !!!!! I getting tattoos with a very patriotic "Flying American Bald Eagle" tattoo (with flames) then another.... then another.
At the time I was heavy into building & working on motorcycles & choppers. Then Gina learned how to ride a motorcycle which was quite an accomplishment considering she had never learned how to drive a stick shift car.
Then we really got into it.... we built the workshop in the back of the house for me to work on them, bought a "Handy pnuematic motorcycle lift" etc, etc, etc.
Then I got the
"bug" to build a custom chopper.... comissioned Discovery Channel biker built-off champion "Hank Young" from Maretta, Georgia to build a one-off custom frame I designed also had him rebuild & modify front forks from a '37 Indian Sport Scout..... little by little adding tats until I had both arms full of ink-artwork.
At the time I had no "hot rod projects" going on nor any plans to do any..... even though we both had new motorcycles we started buying then I re-injured my neck which I had major surgery on about five years before .... so much so my surgeon thought I might have to have another surgery to fix the problem. Needless to say riding a motorcyle was out of the question so much so there was the possibilty I would never be able to ride again.
I bought a C10 stepside pick-up from my nephew which was to be "daily driver" that quickly turned into the first of my "gasser projects" ...... then the El Camino & finally the Opel.
So that is how I am where I am now..... building an "Opel gasser".
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Back to the "radiused wheel wells.....
As you guys know not all wheels well openings have a true/equal radius style.... there are many different shapes & sizes used. I have
always liked the ones most commonly used on 55-56 Chevys which usually have a "true radius" design.
To see where my opening is
"off" I simply
used a pencil tied to the end of a piece of string ..... then with the wheels & tires I am going to use on the car I held the string in the center of the rim's center cap and used the string & pencil as a
"measuring compass" to establish where the current opening is off.
Of course with the change to using the tube chassis instead my original plan to modifying the exisiting unibody & sub frame setup will completely change the reference line I have made.
The one thing that
"puzzles me" ...... how some cars are setup with practically
"NO CLEARANCE" what so ever between the tire & the lip of the fenderwell
?????
As you can see in this picture there is practically
NO CLEARANCE for suspension travel.
I just can't imagine hitting a bump or a dip in the road without the tire rubbing into the fenderwell lip ?????????
Guess I am missing something .... ?????