And thats an original 1960's mountney wheel in there :D used it in all my mini's prior to getting one with an airbag :mad:

I have just had a tought Andy !!

That wouldn't be the single seater you were talking about building at Stoneleigh by any chance :D :D

Headshot / Ronnie

:D :D

Thanks Headshot, once i,ve read & re read the instructions i know where to come if i get stuck :p
I,ve already thought about repositioning the headlights, & i,ve only just received the plans today.

Ronnie....... I,ll be honest & say that i quite like the idea of the Roll bar, apart from safety of the nipper it,ll look even more like "dads car" :D

I just thought for £15 it was worth a punt at making it , ...........

Now, where is the jig for the front frame ????? LOL

cheers
andy

Oops..missed this post :o

call it a trial run :D

Tho, I will be making the real Single Seater too..... i best get the Roadster finished first tho :o :D

cheers
andy

I also picked up the wheels from the guy who makes the plans.

One major problem I have found is the level of grip at speed is so high my little girl (2) is nearly thrown out, I currently have the car sat on my roadster build table trying to work out roll bar and seatbelt arrangements! :confused:

Have clocked her at 4mph in 1st gear and 10mph in second... which for a 2 year old is too fast :eek: (especially when she doesn't quite understand steering yet :D )

I built one of the old type also.Was good little project and no.1 loves it.Only problem i found was the old type used a wooden door knob for the steering wire to wrap around and it would slip so i extended the steering column and bent it round at 90' to form a hook and then drilled through the axle and put a u bolt there for the hook to locate and do the steering.

Cheers Ozzy,
I,m sat here right now reading the build manual :eek: :D
& I thought the steering mechanism was a little suspect so will be doing something similar to what you did to make it a more positive steering system.

I wonder what its self centering would be like , I,ve thought about putting a bungy cord ( under tension ) into the steering so that it will always self center . do you think that is worhwhile ?

cheers
andy

Iwouldnt bother as mines always turning the wheel to chase the other 2 buggers or the cat :D
Heres a pic also of a kiddie car from the shop that i copied the idea from,might make more sense than my explanation!!

This part is now changed to a rubber door stop and 2 LARGE washers, works a treat, no slip :)

I spent an hour reading the instructions in depth today, got my head around it :)
Swmbo has even been out & bought our little lad a "Racing driver suit" :o :D

I best get cracking on it,
I suggested it should be tango orange like my car, wife says "silver & black stripe" :rolleyes:

cheers
andy