Australian Belly Tank

[grumm441]

Didn't Amir Rosenbaum in Spectre get a 300 hat and not qualify for a 200 hat due to Minimums
G

[Dr Goggles]

Hi all,

there was a posting on the DLRA board recently and the poster stated " I believe it is illegal to fair the parachute into the body" he was talking about his plans to build a bellytank....... he quoted  4.cc.5 on page 32......I don't have a current rule book here, any comments?

Our chute is very much "faired into the body", wouldn't mind finding out what the root of this impression was ..

Cheers...

yeah, I know get off the internet and get out to the shed

[salt27]

4.cc.6 Parachute Mounting Tubes:
"Parachute mounting tubes may extend no further than 6 in. behind the rearmost part of the original body and must not be faired into the body.
The maximum length of any side of a tube extending from the body is 12 in.
These dimensions are dependent on specific class rules."

Page 46 2012 book.

     Don

[Milwaukee Midget]

4.cc.6 Parachute Mounting Tubes:
"Parachute mounting tubes may extend no further than 6 in. behind the rearmost part of the original body and must not be faired into the body.
The maximum length of any side of a tube extending from the body is 12 in.
These dimensions are dependent on specific class rules."

Page 46 2012 book.

     Don

I think I'd get a clarification on that.  "Original body" is more of a production linguistic form than one typically sees in special construction.

[Tman]

Yes, that does not apply to Special Construction.

[Dr Goggles]

Thanks guys, it was a noob putting the wind up me, of all the things I don't have the wherewithall for now it is reinventing our parachute arrangement.

On another front I got a call last week , there is a boutique music store here in Melbourne called Pure Pop that has live performances every weekend, next year they are running a "Classic Album: series and I'll be playing with local Monique Brumby when she does Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels album in full......man I can't wait ,twang city!!!!!!

[Milwaukee Midget]

On another front I got a call last week , there is a boutique music store here in Melbourne called Pure Pop that has live performances every weekend, next year they are running a "Classic Album: series and I'll be playing with local Monique Brumby when she does Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels album in full......man I can't wait ,twang city!!!!!!

A stunning album - a classic the day it hit the racks.

There's a fellow named Bo Ramsey - a former Iowa guy - playing slide on that album.  He's had a solid career, I've seen his band a dozen times back in the early 1980's (Bo Ramsey and the Sliders).  Every time I've watched him play, I felt like I'd been taken to school. 

Car Wheels is Lucinda's Exile.

[Dr Goggles]

At some point last year a steel player I used to play with who takes great delight in taking the mickey out of me sent me a video link of Lucinda doing Austin City Limits, he was having a great ol laugh " hahahahah look at the guitarist , it's you!!!"...his name is Kenny Vaughn......so I was at my bass playing galfriend Alic's house( she's who I do every thing musical with including her having got me in on this one), they put the DVD on, we just started laughing straight up and for the next our or so the two of them complimented me after every single thing he played......

I can't wait, it's a hot little band that i'll be sitting in with.

[Dr Goggles]

Whoa, AL Fountains tank for sale..............

http://www.dlra.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2046&p=19485#p19485

[SPARKY]

That is a nice looking traditional tank!!!!

[Tman]

That is a nice looking traditional tank!!!!

I agreee, very sharp.

[Dr Goggles]

That is a nice looking traditional tank!!!!

You're not going to let that rest are ya Bill,

Indeed, It does that  get an auxillary fuel tank and build a car in it very well.

Al is a very accomplished hot rod builder who has built some really solid, and oddball stuff. He bought an Avanti in the US a few years back which I guess will be why he's passing this on.

[Dr Goggles]

Spent the day in the shed today, was a warm day and 3am is not a sensible time to go to bed if you are incapable of sleeping past 6.45am( that was when the bell went off in the boarding house, I was there for five years, thirty years ago )...anyway Simon the photographer was in town last night so we went and had a feed of Vietnamese,no Wayno Vietnamese food, we still aren't allowed to eat people here wherever they come from......and visited some friends of mine......

I spent most of the time on housekeeping, made another bottle trolley for the Oxy/acetylene bottles and cleaned up the shed. Obviously I had more important things to do however everytime I thought about how to finish the new steering column arrangement I easily found something I could do that didn't need me to think...In the end I had to face the music, and after all the circle work I'd done over it the end came reasonably quickly. After tacking everything in place I went and pulled the new 3/20 suit out, put on the helmet and donned the Pro-Rage head restrainty thingy that Jon ( whos building the bike liner) has lent me to try for size. I'll say this. I wish Speedweek was in the middle of winter, the new suit makes the old one feel like a pair of silk pyjamas, it is um , flippin hot and quite inflexible. So I got in the car, the steering wheel was spot on...( this is of course after I got over the minor winding I got contorting myself to get in)....I realised that I now need to slide as far forward as possible inj order to get in......... as I keep saying when we started buidling the car I was 159llbs, now I am( well, right at this moment, it'll no doubt be more this time tomorrow at this rate) 196lbs.... so getting in the car is harder than it used to be. I can still get out of it like a jack-in-the-box in about 8seconds. I was sweating like a pig but the good news is, my new set up for the steering column just needs to be finish welded and it feels great compared to the mongrel arrangement we had., I can get in and out fully suited in the 3/20 with the HANS sort of thing on....

I've got a lot to do.........

[Milwaukee Midget]

Considering 19% more Gogs, a full body quilt and a Hans weren't design parameters, congratulations!

Steer clear of the desserts before you go to the desert.

[SPARKY]

Dr. G---I love trads.---I also need to loose 25 to make the getting in and out easier---I also have spent the last  few hrs noodling I can only hope that mine goes together as well!!