Well lost another weekend attempting to ride Amy's Gran Fondo, and even failed miserably at that attempt.
Not enough saddle time or perhaps that previous weekend skiing had killed my legs. Mind you I didn't suffer a heart attack like a 40 yo bloke did on the first main hill climb of some 9kms. He did survive fortunately.
The views between Lorne and Apollo bay on the closed road were spectacular though!
So very little time on the car and not much physical advancement.
Had been developing cardboard templates in the driver's footwell. I came to the conclusion I needed to make multiple panels, to be able to fit around all the obstacles. Also decided I'd simply run the panels behind and around the various mounts on the basis these black painted items would tend to disappear against the planned dark blue carpet.
So got my first of three planned panels finally cut off the final template version and mounted as shown below.
The second template notionally in position.
And then the third template to work around the windscreen stanchion and bonnet latch in this case.
I need to do some tweaking to panels 2 and 3 to better fit up to each other and for panel 2 to fit panel 1. I will also be making two small cover panels to fit neatly around the bonnet lever and the accelerator pedal mount.
These small cover panels are needed to cover the cut out shapes I need to make in the larger panels just to be able to even fit them.
Given the silly Tigers failed again to progress in finals and I've a full weekend available, I'll have no distractions to progress further.
Hopefully by the end of the weekend I'll be able to sign off the driver footwell panels as done too.
We will see.
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