#1 My son grinding on rear battery compartment #2 My son welding on rear battery compartment #3 My first attempt at the front battery tray #4 The front battery tray today, I still need to modify it but it is getting closer to something that will work. #5 Installing the clutch to the motor, there are several steps to do this and this is the first step. I lost a couple of others as I shut off my camera too soon and the pics wern't stored on the hard drive, a mistake I'll not do again.

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#1 Taking the motor out of packing box #2 Motor out #3 Box removed #4 Mounting plate attached to motor, Notice the paint on the plate I used this to mark the locatation of the trans and sisn't scribe the metal, also the plate has been trimmed of some excess metal. #5 Motor plate cleaned of paint.

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Here are the last two I have today, #1 Lifting the motor to put into the car #2 in the car bolted to the tranny readu for the motor mounts. I will post more in a couple of days.

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Awesome! So how close would you say that you are to driving this beauty?

I was hoping to have it on the road at the end of the month but it will be more like the end of the first week of June. I just about finished the front battery trays today. I have to reinforce the 12 volt tray and build a bracket to hold it down, and weld one more support on another front tray then the front trays will be finished with the fabricatating phase. I have to find some heavy hard plastic to line them with on the outside and put in the insulatation. then all is ready for the batteries. I will post more pictures tomorrow of the compleated trays, it was a real brain teaser to fit four up front plus all the rest of it!!!!!!!!!

wow this is looking fantastic, i cant wait to see it moving arround. where in MI are you located?

I made a major stride forward yesterday, the front battery boxes are compleate. Insulatation and all, I may have to add tabs on the corners to hold the insulatation in but they can be added later. I have to make a hold down bracket for the 12 volt battery and today I am going to concentrate on the rear battery box, it should be easy compared to the front. Here are some pics from different angles of the front. The first three pictures are of the boxes in the car without batteries or insulatation, the fourth picture is of the vacuum switch for the brakes, the fifth is of the batteries.

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Various pics from different angles of the batteries in the box without the insulatation.

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#1 Notice in the lower right of the pic my 12 volt car battery . same on #2. #3 different angle. #4 different angle #5 batteries installed with insulatation
You might ask why so many pics of the same thing, It took me major hours to figure theese particular trays out, I would try one way just to be shot down over and over. But my son Jim came up with the final idea that works quite well, Thankyou Jimmy I spent many hours pondering this problem and now it is solved!!!!!!!!! I have been welding today on the rear battery compartment and it is coming along nicely. I have to go out of town for three weeks unexpectadly, so I will have to finish after I get back.

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are you going to have it finished before you hit sunny florida? Can't wait to see you U.B., love florida bird nut!