Today Walt and I took the engine block to his machine shop in Morganton to have the new valve seats installed - should get it back next week to start the re assembly. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up our lightened flywheels that Tommy Berry put on his big lathe.
Flywheel housing.
Having finished the transmission I discovered the bell housing had a series of cracks running through it in 4 places and had to be trashed. We sorted through Walt's scrap pile and found a good one to use.
Finished transmission.
Walt has a friend in Marion that just finished a 31 Roadster identical to this one including paint color. Of course I didn't bring my camera cause I thought we were just going to the machine shop. So we go over to Frank's and see his car and this is the first roadster I've seen that is identical so I start asking questions about this and that and making notes of what I'm missing that I didn't even know I was missing. Every thing that I asked about he said, "I have an extra set of those, want em?" So we go home with all kind of parts and he would not take a penny for them. Said "I'm done with my roadster and aren't going to need them, you can have anything you want and come back anytime you need anything."
So, I came home with body patch panels (wipers are sitting on them) for the doors and cowl, wood for the subframe to frame connections, wood sets for all the interior upholstery to tack to.
Frame to body wood.
Interior wood set.
An original Ditzler A model paint guide including all the color chips for mixing paint. (I had really been wanting one of these but you can't get them anywhere!)
Original paint color chips.
An original vacuum wiper motor, stainless vacuum conduit that goes up the windshield frame and new arms and wipers. A set of rumble seat brackets and bumpers and a stack of literature and books......for free! Talk about a good day! More as it happens.
Wiper assembly and rumble stops.
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