C8 progress in Texas

[David DeWeese]

Hi,
Disassembled my reproduction storage lockers to prime and paint them this weekend. Decided to keep the "X" stamped locker doors because I liked the look of them too much to just throw them in the scrap bin.

Tack-welded a dummy fuel filler neck on the end of the left tank to match the right one, now both being fairly close to the style of tanks used on the Duple body C8.

The plan was to add fuel to this left tank from it's original cap now located inside the lower locker, as I did not want to cut a hole in a nice original tank.
Well, I noticed this tank is vented through a hole that is located next to the filler cap. I was worried that fuel vapor would now be building up inside the lower locker. This seemed like an accident waiting to happen, so....

Found an old military generator shroud with the right size louvers and made a removable end panel for the lower locker. That end panel had to be removable anyway to access the center bolts that hold the lockers to the lower framework. I have no idea how the original lockers were made, so this is the best I could come up with to make everything work out.

Anyway, the reproduction lockers and fuel tank mods are finally done, so no more painful fabrication is ahead for me or anyone else to suffer through.....hopefully!
Thanks, David