Getting Creative
I've been enjoying full-time development for the last few weeks, especially since it's pure ASP.NET 2.0 all the way now baby! Lots of fun stuff, and yesterday I finally kicked out the cool-for-1.1 MetaBuilders master pages and converted to ASP.NET goodness. There's quite a lot of refactoring needed to properly support metatags, page title, css and scripts in the new model and many pages to convert but it's all fun stuff.
Now my creative juices are flowing again at work, I find it easier to get creative after work too. Inevitably I'm on the laptop for sometime each evening but more and more I'm thinking about the next step on the '37 project too. I have an insane amount of work to do before "launch" next summer. But I'm formulating a plan to start work on the front end again (I'm building a new car body from chicken wire, foam and filler; then making a mould from it. Much harder than it sounds).
I'm going to split the front end into 3 parts. The first part that contains the lights will be fixed to the car, and will be the part that gets sacrificed regularly when hitting things at the track and on the road. Lightweight, small and easily reproduced. The main part above the lights will either hinge backwards from the base of the windshield or more likely just come off in one piece and fasten with Dzus clips.
The trick is, how to create these three bucks given that I have the finished shape. Think about the returns needed and how the parts will overlap. At this point I think I'll have to get as close as possible to the final shape, then 'glass some strengthening in from underneat and cut the buck into three in order to form the overlap and return sections.
Two other things:
I've decided to spurn the whole hot rod candy apple red thing and instead paint my car as a road race car - which is what it is afterall. I think people might understand it more that way when I drive it to the local cruise. And being an ex-
GT40 replica owner I'm of course drawn to
Gulf Oil Racing colors. I don't think I've ever seen that on a hot rod. :D
I'm not a fan of Ultima's (I always thought they were too small somehow) but
this guy has spent an
insane amount of time and money on his. If you know drag racing you'll know that this is very quick for a circuit-racing car:
and even with P-Zero street tires we turned consistent 10.00 sec quarter miles at over 160mph, with most of the acceleration occuring after 100mph when the wing made enough down-force to achieve traction. 
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