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Old 03-15-2014, 09:26 PM   #231 (permalink)
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I was going to change the steering system but that just would not give my 6 feet and 205 pounds enough room... My head is behind the second roll bar and I have 4 inches of head room barely enough to wear a helmet.
Is that because the steering box is ahead of the torsion bars, whre rack and pinion would be behind it? How about a 'Gurney bubble' with a built-in periscope rear view mirror??

I wish I still has a Popular Mechanix that I used to do. (??) Anyway, it had a picture of a WWII Jeep that had the canpy of a B-17 grafted on. Which was awesome.

But just look at the nose of the A-20:


Maybe you could have a piece of laminated safety glass in a horseshoe shape (like Bugatti) followed by a blown plexiglass bubble, like the bulletproof part of a jet-plane canopy. With one tiny litle wiper.

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