Dreamin Ta's

[WSSix]

Nice job! I hope this new design works for you, Bob.

[Panteracer]

Thanks Trey
took it out for a spin last night and all seems to be good
Going to drive it to Laguna on friday to hang out with Greg
and Chad... might take the long way getting there though
the backroads

Bob

[DBasher]

I had the opportunity to poke around a pretty bitchin Pantera over the weekend and got to thinking.....How the heck does Bob fit in this thing? If I remember correctly, when we talked at Thunderhill you and I see eye to eye. How'd you do it?

[DBasher]

Didn't matter how much fancy beer I drank, I barely fit.....maybe I should have had wine. This seat has been dropped three inches and I couldn't imagine working with a suit and helmet on. Still love them!

[Panteracer]

Sorry just saw this on me fitting in the Pantera
I have early Recaro seats that have little height, no carpet
or tracks so the seats are bolted to the floor with a bracket I made

Ok so Bird work
Finally started lightening things up... new front bumper just showed
up... approx 6lbs.. ... pulled the old one and was reading they have steel
and are 65lbs early car... mine ...but it only seems like maybe 20 or 25
Brackets that hold it in place are way beefy... pulling those, swiss cheesing
some others or replace with alum, pull inner fenders, ducts for brakes out
of the lower turn signals, plastic lights etc.. will see how this works

Wondering if I take all the big brackets and bumper out if that is really
causing a safety issue.. I know the car would be crunched but should
I put a push type bar across out of chrome molly or ??

Ricks SS tank going next.. going to do a fuel cell

thanks,

Bob

[carbuff]

Bob,

Maybe I missed it, but which bumper are you using? I had a VFN that I didn't use on TOW, so I sold it. Curious if that's your path?

Those original bumpers are heavy. Hard to say whether you should put something in it's place or not. If you're going into a wall of tires, it might be nice. But if you're going into something hard, I'm not sure how much it would help.

[Panteracer]

Bryan,
I have a Classic Industries bumper.. still in the box
until Christimas.... The originals on the early cars
are lighter than the next year as they were not able to
make the crash tests.. mine is the lighter one

Brackets bolted to the frame seems to be where most of
the crash impact comes from.. thinking of lighten them
or getting rid of them and maybe a nerf type bar to the frame

Bob

[carbuff]

I didn't know that they made/sold those. Does it have attachment points to mount just like the originals did? Interesting...

Potential 50# weight savings on the nose. TOW would like that!

[Panteracer]

Won't know about attachments until after Christmas
Wife ordered it for me.. I ordered something for her
We said we would wait on opening them

I also have a glass hood so was thinking of saving 200 lbs
with brackets, nose, hood, inner fenders etc... the lighter
existing nose might hurt my total because it was suppose to be
65lbs for a 70 and 80lbs for 71-74.. Maybe with brackets I can
get to the 200 lb savings

Bob

[Panteracer]

So pulled the radiator and upper cross piece
yesterday. Now to figure out what size alum
tube I am going to fab up. Will wait for Christmas
so I can see what attachments I need to fab for
The new nose

Bob