Michael Richard's Journal

Well I drew, scaled, schemed, ranted, and cried, but finally decided on a plywood chassis. I built a somewhat to scale model of the main substructure to evaluate the stiffness on each axis and it's pretty much come up fine. Still some bulkheads to mock-up and seat back will be part of the bottom structure. I'm trying to get all of the structural strength built into the lower half of the car except for the dash/seat back and a solid support stringer between those. Also there will be sheet metal truss along the lengths of plywood which are lacking support. The flat end of the model will be the front. Remember this is only a proof of concept design and very rough. Now if I can just get the photo's over here..........