Well it's now just 3 weeks till Stretton and I'm determined to bring something that can propel, steer and stop itself, on the shale or in the car park at least.  I guess that means some long days in the workshop, but I have most of the key components, so now all I have to do is make all the bits that hold them together!

Progress pics will follow (I hope)!

Well now it's just two weeks to Stretton! The good news is that I am now on 4 wheels, but it took me much longer than I anticipated.  Just got to sort out steering, braking, throttle, glue up the tub and fix it in, -  easy.

Looking great, 14 days to go 

OK, well I pushed so hard to get it running for Stretton, that I've had to step back and catch up with a few other things, so progress has been slow.  Stretton went well and the only issue I had was with the axle keys becoming loose and working along the keyway.  I just taped them in place on the day, but I'll look at that in due course.

I've started on the bodywork at the front, using MDF for the nose and some left over 0.9mm ali sheeting. I need to fill and sand the nose to it's final shape and then figure out the grille. For the main panels with simple curves, bonnet etc. I've bought some 1.2mm sheet, and I'll put off anything with compound curves until I feel inspired!

Thanks for your offer Rhys, I was going to use some left over eml, what do you have?

I've been making my steering wheel, hoping to finish it over the weekend.  I've borrowed the boss design posted by our French friends. Here is an exploded diagram I did on Sketch Up,
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Some pics of the rim, I'm using 2 layers of 12mm ply which will be glued and then I'm planning to string wrap it. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

That’s a lot of string!  Nice result - I like the way you’ve worked around the spokes with the string.

Yikes.... there's a hell of a lot of work just in the string
Looks great and well worth the effort.