1985 Honda Acty Show Truck

Cheers Adey

Another 63 mile round trip buzzing to and from work in the Acty today. I’m starting to push it to its limits a bit more now, hopefully without getting over confident, but it does really handle nicely on the new rear tyres. It’s almost feeling more go kart like than dodgem like now.

Today’s lunch time foray was measuring up and making partial templates for the new headlining fabric.






And I’ve also started scraping off the remains of the glue / sponge from the original headlining, it’s very enjoyable!

Hopefully this video works although it might be less enjoyable to watch than doing it and making progress!

http://instagram.com/p/BmL1xdygly4

I’ve also got two other projects ongoing, at least one of which will be ready for RRG hopefully.

Project 1 involves bolting stainless discs to the wheel studs in front of the front steel wheels in a turbo fan type way to make them appear more similar to the rear wheels.

Project 2 involves getting the image wheels made up in 3.5” width to match the standard steels so the tyres will tuck nicely into the tubbed arches. Any slight variance will stretch the tyres slightly too much to fit in the gap in the arches.

So if project 2 isn’t possible- ie minimum with too wide or offset limits not viable then I’ll go with option 1.

Comparison between image wheel at 5” wide and steel at 3.5” wide...



Harry at image did say it should be viable if width needs to come off the inner which is the case - it’s just difficult to tell if the mount face of the two wheels are in the equivalent position.