After a few weeks of tooling round in the Corvette and catching up with the family and having very little time to spend in the shed I have had a few days to get stuck back into the car, I have sorted out how the new bottom brackets will mount to the tube frame and now I will just have to work out how to mount the top of the turrets to the top tubes of the frame. so time for a trial fit using pipe clamps and welding magnets to keep every thing together, I cannot fit some of the new tubes until the tube bender I have ordered arrives from offshore, I had planed to have everything ready for welding by now but shipping delays and Covid related hold ups have slowed things down a bit but I should be able to have the car back together for summer. there are plenty of small jobs to do so I have plenty of things to keep me busy over the winter.
The new suspension looks a bit tidier than the old parts even though the new A arms, turrets, uprights and stubs date from 1959 and the type 12 disk brakes are from 1962 but more importantly it should all work together and give a better ride, more control and better braking than the poorly matched setup it has replaced.
The shiny alloy channels in the photos are only there to keep everything straight and true and will be removed when it is all welded together.
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