I went down today and checked the progress. They have the doghouse mounteded, the radiator and oil cooler mounted and have welded up all the places sectioned on the floor and firewall. Michael was cutting part of the roof out of a parts roof I got from the PO and will weld it into the front edge of my roof. That's Michael and his right hand man Steve in front of the CE. Its pretty cold here today and in Anderson they had about 4" of snow but we have none so far here.

Wooo hoooo!

Oh, and the radiator from the mb is sitting right where the Studebaker rad was previously with the oil cooler mounted above it. almost a perfect fit. A bracket here and there and the existing sheet metal directing the air from the low intake grills directing the air up to the radiator is working perfectly for the mb radiator. Cool!

When they put the doghouse back together they found a lot of small spiderwebs of fatigue cracks in the sheet metal mounting points which required welding. The front end is put together as a dog house which is held to the car with a minimum of attachment bolts.

In these pictures the car is up on jack stands so it looks higher than it will.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.