doing some intereior tin work on the Larkness Monster

my buddy lewy dropped off the lark the other day to have me do some interior metal work on the car before bowling green. here is what we are doing

here is the car



in the shop ready for work



made a new piece to go around the pedals



removable transmission tunnel side panel



driver side sill plate



driver side door panel laid out ready to be cut out and bead rolled



door panel first fit, still needed a little trimming



cut an insert out of aluminum that will be engine turned and riveted to the door panel



the rear side panel laid out, cut and ready to bead roll



more to come tomorrow

That door panel is inspiring. Very nice work.

Damn, that is cool looking! Nice work!

more progress from today, sorry for the weird/ bad pics, it was hard to get good pics around the roll cage

got the package tray panel made





and the panel that separates the trunk from the cockpit









driver side rear side panel




and started engine turning the aluminum door panel inserts

Seeing this confirms it, I am a hack. Great work!

really nice, man! really nice...

Wow!!!

I want a bead roller.

I WANT A BEAD ROLLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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42chevy said:

Seeing this confirms it, I am a hack. Great work!

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Yep CF work makes me feel the same about my work. So I click over to D-Bay and search ratrods, then I don't feel so bad about my work.

Killer work as always CF.

That door panel is friggin' awesome! Heck, it's all awesome Mike. I would love to come to your open house next weekend but my schedule is so day to day and weather driven at this point that anything I do is spur of the moment.

got a little bit more work done on the Lark this afternoon

cut out and engine turned the insert for the rear separation panel



made the passenger side rear side panel, cut out and engine turned the insert






and i am going to make a nice looking fan shroud for the radiator and planning on incorporating this into the design as a coolant puke tank

a little more progress today, should be all finished up tomorrow

more engine turning



then got the fan shroud and new coolant puke tank mounted

got the car all finished up today, should be getting picked up in the next few days. i think it turned out super cool. definitely one of kind

made a panel that covers the hole in the floor where the shifter comes through





finished off the puke tank with a gromet in the top hole



now for the cool part, i was thinking solid aluminum door panels was a lot of silver, so i thought it would be cool to candy the engine turned inserts to match the yellow windows



so here it is all finished up

and made up a new radio delete plate to match the rest of the new interior

Yup, ya always make me feel like crap when I look at your stuff. Sooner or later I am just going to stop looking.....

What kind of wheel are you using in your drill press to do the turning?

to do the engine turning i use a 2 inch gasket remover roloc. it is like a scotch brite pad for your air angle grinder. i run a super slow speed on the bridgeport

what did you paint the panels with?

yellow enamel candy

Absolutely beautiful work - as always [cl

Really some nice work [cl
Did you tig the fan guard onto the shroud ?

old iron, no i buck riveted the fan guard to the shroud