Figured I’ve been lurking long enough, and I should post and introduce myself. I’m a Kiwi, living in Southern California. I’d been looking for a pre 1952 11BL for a while, and this was the best I could come up with.
Seems like someone “restored” it in the late 90’s. Its wood lined and has some other oddities. Body sheet metal is great, but the floor and the bottom 1/2 “ of everything is toast. Battery box/cowl vent and most of the parcel tray also.
The plan is to repair the floor and ot
her sheetmetal as if it was being restored, but then convert to EV. I’ll have to figure out how much battery weight I can add, but I want to keep the torsion bar front end and FWD, so that will limit things somewhat. Anyway – I have a bunch of sheetmetal work before thinking too much about the EV conversion.
No idea what's going on with the wood. Someone spent a lot of time fitting each piece. Maybe Americans think European cars double as saunas...?
Pete
Seems like someone “restored” it in the late 90’s. Its wood lined and has some other oddities. Body sheet metal is great, but the floor and the bottom 1/2 “ of everything is toast. Battery box/cowl vent and most of the parcel tray also.
The plan is to repair the floor and ot
her sheetmetal as if it was being restored, but then convert to EV. I’ll have to figure out how much battery weight I can add, but I want to keep the torsion bar front end and FWD, so that will limit things somewhat. Anyway – I have a bunch of sheetmetal work before thinking too much about the EV conversion.
No idea what's going on with the wood. Someone spent a lot of time fitting each piece. Maybe Americans think European cars double as saunas...?
Pete