After I finished my jail door Porsche 906, I decided it would be fun to make a vintage jail door F1 car too. Then Jairus posted his phenomenal jail door Ferrari P3 (http://slotblog.net/...e-jail-door-p3/) and since I had a Ferrari 312 body on hand, decided I would do another tribute to Lorenzo Bandini. Rodney also recently posted a Captain Rick built Ferrari 312 (http://slotblog.net/topic/100583-rick-thigpen-customer-car-built-in-the-90s/) only in this case, it was a pro design as opposed to a jail door. But one of the things I loved about that car is that there was no attempt to hide the chassis out back but rather it almost seemed to be featured.
So below are shots of what is essentially a very simple jail door design but it does have a couple of interesting features. One is that like my 906, it is using my sleeved poor man’s Duffy's which will be very visible on the finished car. The other is that the chassis layout is such that the Rehco motor mount is not at all in alignment with any of the frame rails so to secure it, I used 1/8” angle rod to tie it to the chassis rails. This both provides a very large connection area but also greatly firms up the side of the motor mount.
The drop is a simple 3/4” slab affair using my preferred drop stop design in which a riser both supports the stop bar and helps keep the drop arm centered.
Larry, did you know Dennis's wife is a very good body painter? She paints some of his bodies, but I don't know if she does others.
