Unassembled Thunder Ranch Speedster found it's way from Colorado to our home in WV this week, I'm half done with the latest dune buggy build ( it's already sold) hopefully another three weeks I'll have that buttoned up and on it's way to the owner. The TR speedster has some decent engineered upgrades, came with two tone beige and tan German square weave carpet set and dozens of new parts. The PO spent hours block sanding the car, I removed the lights, handles etc today. Need to get rid of the old school ww tires and red smoothie rims, then pick a unique color and make a paint appointment.
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Was all of the wiring done in red wire? No color variations... ??? Mc B just bought wire by the big spool. All kinds of fun!
I use Vintage Motorcar's harness , Greg supplies a specific harness, after 54 Speedster projects, I kinda know that harness .
@Alan Merklin nice winter project. 👍
Those wheels and tires...
@Chris Kleber, KitMan Motors posted:Was all of the wiring done in red wire? No color variations... ??? Mc B just bought wire by the big spool. All kinds of fun!
And JPS uses only red and white LOL!
I really don't like the smoothie rims and wide white walls at all. I'd go 5 ply Monsanto plywood or OSB!
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That was back in the day so to speak ....sucked because even with tight straps it walked all over the trailer. Anyone price a sheet of 1/2" Plywood sheathing sheathing ? .... $38 2 x 4 x8' ....$6.50 1/2" sheetrock ...$10 How does anyone build a home today ? Just went to ACE for misc dune buggy hwd. .... $100 !
@Alan Merklin posted:Unassembled Thunder Ranch Speedster found it's way from Colorado to our home in WV this week, I'm half done with the latest dune buggy build ( it's already sold) hopefully another three weeks I'll have that buttoned up and on it's way to the owner. The TR speedster has some decent engineered upgrades, came with two tone beige and tan German square weave carpet set and dozens of new parts. The PO spent hours block sanding the car, I removed the lights, handles etc today. Need to get rid of the old school ww tires and red smoothie rims, then pick a unique color and make a paint appointment.
@Alan Merklin what color are you thinking?
No idea, the speedster seats are light tan beige and the square weave carper also two tone tan and beige.
Covid is certainly inflationary in all kinds of areas.
My penny's worth - Stone grey or that medium grey your used before (with the baseball mitt interior color) - still look great with the tan interior.
Link to Stone Grey and beige -
thats not the stone grey i know, its more a greenish, cream color,,,the grey car in the pic looks more like meteor gray
Voodoo Blue.
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I have slight color blindness, some shades appear different to me .. purple / violet, green / brown...but wiring is not a big problem, the trick is to have good lighting and back up a wire with a piece of white paper then I can tell the difference. That Stone grey looks like a blah lighter green to me. The past three projects have all been Porsche Seal Grey so I need to kick it up a notch or two. The interior that came with the car is a light beige /tan. I finished removing the lights bumpers etc. we'll trailer it to the shop and spend some time going through his samples and take along the carpet and vinyl. stripping Connie and I will trailer the Speedster. I still have a few weeks to go on the buggy build and hope to do a week in Florida in March and by the slim chance everything happens to fall into place, have this Speedster done the first week of May