Dixie Flyer "Firefly" speedster photographs

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:) I know how you all love photographs. Here is one taken just an hour ago. I had just fitted the two front wheels having collected the hub-caps from the platers two hours earlier.

Let me remind you that there is just six weeks before the car has to be ready for shipping to Louisville.

4-19-2010

Hi All

Sorry no new photographs just yet. I am working flatout in an attempt to meet the May 14 deadline for sea freight to the US. With luck I should have some stunning new pics for you by early next week.

4-21-2010

:D As suggested in my last post things are starting to happen. I collect the painted body from the painter tomorrow. With this firmly bolted in place on the chassis, final assembly can start in earnest. All that remains to be painted now is the hood (5 pieces) so that May 14th target is looking better.

4-22-2010

A taste of things to come.......... :)

4-26-2010

Patience my friends

I am working 8 to 10 hours a day 7 days a week. The four fenders are now fitted and today I have been working on the electrical wiring. the rear lights, stop lights and turn indicators are fitted and wired up. With such a fantastic paint finish I just have to be extra careful. My aim is to have the car ready to go back to the trimmers next week so they can do some final detail work and fit the carpet etc. Looking at the car from underneath it all looks fairly much as it would have in 1922.

4-29-2010

Thank you Jan

As you will see from the attached we are now firmly on track for Louisville.

First thing tomorrow the Dixie Flyer goes back to the trimmers shop for the seat, carpets and trim to be installed. with this in place the Dash can be refitted and the electrical wiring completed so that should take care of the next day or so but first a couple of photographs taken earlier this evening (Australian time) and some that my ever helpful and enthusiastic son Steve sent of the work he is doing on the Dash and a new gear lever knob that he has turned up out of "Spotted Gum" the timber that I have used for the steering wheel rim and dash.