We have another part of the great 59 Ford Build from England, In this section our friends get the suspension in and the front fenders mounted, and we get to finally see it on the ground. This has been thus far a great build and a sweet project car. It’s not your usual car which makes it a lot more special.  For all the Details take a look below.

With the bulk head finished we (Marc) are all set to sort out the bits that stop the car rubbing the floor, although I doubt knowing Marc it will sit very high! Yes the suspension, but before that starts there is again a mass of measuring taking place, the more I look at the pics of the bulkhead the more I think ‘that’s so bloody cool’ I just want people to see it now,

I have been amazed and pleased at the amount of interest this car is now getting, as far away as America, I have taken the photos and just randomly shown mates and work colleagues who even as non Ford fans have to admit that it is a very nice piece of work, it’s the NON motorsport people that have made me smile though, they all say the same sort of thing, is that from the factory? Is that how it was from new?, And my favourite, EEy malceo, ies a magnifico, said the Canteen chief!! (guess Italian! but from Basingstoke,)

I have looked at the original pics we started with of the ‘spare car’ and I have to say, yes it is, Ford are clever people and the engine placement in the 100E is nicely set back, I am sure that the car designers said, ‘’listen guys, in a few years time I can see some bloody loon trying to fit a V8 in here so lets humour them and make it easy!

What they didn’t expect was for that idea to be used, then HUXLEY’d, so yes the car is as close to the shape and size as it was when it accelerated (slowly) out of Dagenham for the first time, yes, Marc has recreated the chassis rails and the bulkhead but this is a race car so to go to the effort of matching to original is way above the call of duty, and more to the point this is a passion for him, I just sit here waffling and with my mouth wide open!

Anyway back to the plot Malx. This is the finished bulk head from the inside

And from the outside. Pretty aint it.

Marc found that the what we thought were just beefed up strut towers, were in fact bent, battered, over engineered (over 6mm thick plate) and not in the original place, hence the removal.He has recreated the towers and the strut tops the car was born with, admittedly we can move the suspension legs within the towers for camber and caster, but the important item for us is that they are were they should be.

Marc used cardboard templates made from the spare car’s towers to get the shapes, again would have been easy to just make them square, and with constant measuring got the bends and the straight bits just right,

And both sides fitted up with suspension and steering.

And with the finished towers in place and suspension mounted it is starting to come together, Marcs measurements also found that the cross member was a little out of line and in the wrong place so relocation of the cross member was also required and is amazingly now in the stock 100E position.

In the constant battle to reduce weight Marc has been let loose with his fancy hole cutter, the areas are non weight bearing and will be linked into the roll cage anyway, Hence the name multi point cage! Which I just no is not only going to look good but be rather sexy! And of course very strong.