Well, things have slowed down on the progress on the
scamp, due to the busy season at work, but I am plugging away. This weekend, I did more
fiberglass work, but the exiting thing was that I was able to finish up on the frame and bring it home from my shop to where the shell is! It felt good to actually be able to tow it! The scary thing was pulling it with my full size dodge, and I could not see it at all behind me, unless I went around a sharp corner. I thought I lost it each time I looked in the mirror, lol! But it was there when I got home.
I made a couple of changes from the original frame, by widening the dropped floor in the front, gaining 13"x 20" x6" of interior space. Not sure how I will use this space yet, but it's there! Also, the rear dropped floor support is moved back 3" so I can run wires/plumbing if needed.
I am almost done with the major
fiberglass work, so my next step will be to put the frame under the shell to see how things line up. Also, I want to weld some supports outside the frame rails to support the plywood floor as close to the body as I can get. I didn't like how the original frame had no supports beyond the frame rails, as I noticed how the body sagged because the plywood sagged outside the frame, probably a good inch and a half. By welding tabs and supports, I won't have to fasten the plywood directly to the frame using screws. Instead, I will be able to bolt the plywood to the tabs I weld on.