Tiger for the Rally

September 24th, 2009

The Tiger is wearing graphics ready for an upcoming rally. The Classic Adelaide is a world famous rally in Southern Australia. http://www.classicadelaide.com.au/

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Bad Regulator and Polarized Generator

September 23rd, 2009

The charging system was not working. A new regulator was needed but the system was still not charging. After doing the polarization procedure for the generator everything started to work fine.

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Crank

September 21st, 2009

More pictures of the crank bearing damage.

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Small Hoosiers

September 18th, 2009

Old street tires are thrown away for Hoosier 255/45R13 A6s

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Interstate Mishap

September 18th, 2009

While driving down the interstate a crank bearing gave up.  What is left of it is sitting in the bottom of the oil pan.

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Berkeley Concours

September 13th, 2009

The first show for this car was the 2009 Salisbury Concours d’Elegance in which it was featured along with other micro sized cars.

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Berkeley in the sun

September 10th, 2009

The Berkeley is painted, polished, put together and ready to go to the Concours this weekend.

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Dynamic Test

September 8th, 2009

After some more fiddling with the ignition the car was able to drive out of the shop.

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Filling it up

September 7th, 2009

With the engine and fuel tank dropped in the engine bay is really filling up again.

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Clean bay – clean engine

September 7th, 2009

The engine bay and engine are cleaned up and ready for assembly.

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Everything is blasted

August 30th, 2009

Everything gets sandblasted so that it can be painted or powder coated, even the engine.

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Good body

August 28th, 2009

The body work is almost done and paint will be going on soon.

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High Compression

August 23rd, 2009

After a compression test one of the cylinders was not as high as the other three.

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Shape is getting there

August 21st, 2009

You can really see the smooth body lines of the car starting to come out.

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Rough paint

August 10th, 2009

This body is going to need a lot of work.

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