Dixie Flyer "Firefly" speedster photographs

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Wow! The silence is deafening!!

Is it really so bad that I have shocked you all to the extent that everyone is speechless? 

None the less, work is progressing apace now that I am committed to bring the Dixie Flyer to Louisville on June 30. Hope that you all plan to be there.......

:oHello again.

Perhaps these two photos of the seats will do something to help you overcome your shock at seeing the body in its naked state. It was quite difficult to take these photos in the rather cramped confines of a fourth bedroon /junk store but for what it is worth here you are. The seat backs both fold to give access to the luggage space in the tail. I just hope that all those early years working as a furniture designer were not wasted. Perhaps you should go back to page one and look at what I started with.

1-19-2010

Hello Alan

I have gone as far as I can with the wiring until the body is finished and the dash and instruments etc fitted. I collected the slab of timber for the dash yesterday and a parcel arrived from the Restoration Supply Co containing switches, globes and some small fittings. I still am looking for a suitable "Vintage" fuse box. I found a headlight switch at a country swap meet a couple of sundays back. So it is still a "work in progress" like everything else. 

If Winter comes can Spring be far behind!

1-22-2010

Hello Alan

Re the wire wheels; the front axle was simple just fit the hubs with new bearings and one extra spacer washer behind the nut. The rear was only slightly more complicated as it required re-machining the taper in the hubs to suit the axles. With the rear axle it is now mostly early Dodge 4 including the half shafts so this was mainly a case of replacing bearings etc and some machining. It also involved machining a spacer to go on the rear of the gearbox to accept the Dodge universal joint and ball coupling.

This is all discussed in the Antique Automobile articles.

1-23-2010

Hello John

Re to your reply about fuses. I have just ordered a fuse block from the Restoration Supply Co. I know most pre mid-20s cars did not have them but having seen the sort of damage a simple short circuit can do I think that the occasional "Belt AND Braces" job is not a bad thing. I am spending a lot of money and effort on the Dixie Flyer and I would hate it to go up in smoke. It is like I have never used the fire extinguisher in the Lagonda but I still check it every 12 months and replace it every five years. Every car that I rebuild gets new electrical wiring including a fuse block. So far I have not had to replace a fuse but that does not mean that they are unnecessary. Perhaps I am just a natural born worrier.