eye candy 3/5/17

Will

There's your wide 5 and drumskin configuration we were discussing. Look at some of Troy's builds to see the look you get with the black extended studs and nuts. Plain evil looking! Great stuff.

but I also like this look:          (without the headlight grills)

Those Davins...weren't they one o' them kit cars?

Devins were not a kit-car, they were made by Bill Devin on a custom-order basis, for racing.

Not entirely true, Will.  He would sell bare bodies to anyone brave enough to undertake a build.  It was just the outer shell with no inner reinforcements or structure of any kind.  A friend of mine has one that he bought from Bill Devin years ago and is just now getting a Morgan frame built up to put under it.  The most difficult part has been figuring out the inner structure.  I'll see if I can dig up the pictures I have of the body before building started.

EDIT:  Bodies were available in several lengths and configurations (front engine, rear engine, etc.)

Everyone thinks "kit car" is an insult now. Circa 1958, the line between "kit car" and "custom build" and "race car" was thin, indeed.