Starting my Kellison build

[john chesnut]

Thank you for the words of support. I'm doing better and worked a few days in the shop t last week. Ralphy I'll check out the vette link. And, yes I have been to the Forgotten Fiberglass site. Love it.

The C4 roller that I was test fitting the body to didn't have an engine. I wanted to make sure that the mods that I am making would clear everything so I searched Craigs list for a complete C4. My first search turned up a beat up but running C4 a couple hours from me. I bought it for $700 and drove it into my trailer. I stripped the body off of it and started thinking about fitting the Kellison body to the Vette chassis while keeping the Vette's roll hoop, windshield and doors. I cut the body some to test fit. In the end the look wasn't acceptable to me so now I have to glue the body back together! I did discover that the hood will not clear the engine and radiator with out some mods.

In the meantime I was looking at the C4 stripped down chassis and it occurred to me that it would be cool to fab an exoskeleton frame from roll bar tubing and bolt it to the existing chassis. So, I'm making a little rat rod, locost, exoskeleton inspired creation that is simple and cheap. Besides mounting a new fuel tank I won't have to do anything mechanically to it. Now, I have 2 projects, the Kellison C4 and the ExoVette. Back to having some fun.