Howdy Eric,
What John said …though I can’t manage to be as succinct. As a life long athlete, certain adjudged profound situations encountered over the years have seemed to trigger game-time levels of lucidity and adversarial overtones in my case. From the passion and build up I sense here, you reeeaally want this machine and this is one of those game time moments heightened further by the circumstances. At that price, it’s seeming increasing visibility and the unexpected deal breaker of all time waiting in the wings to ruin this situation – Ebay - I’d singularly focus on acquiring it hastily over any other plans….cunningly approaching this as a middle weight in a heavy weight fight. Short of being a driven obnoxious savant (as I’ve descended to on too many occasions) let’s close the deal.
As noted, the rest will take care of itself easier than it would appear intially, if my humble situation 13 years ago is any indication. I never sat on a Vin, had no reference machine within 230 miles of my shop, owned no British tools, had only KYB, Richardson and the parts list in hand and built my machine without phone calls to anyone other than John Healy and did it a single car garage. Only a gen/mag armature rewind, a caged-roller bottom end build farmed out to Mike Parti for sentimental purposes and a few machining tasks done locally by Leo Goff, the rest from stitching the seat to paint, fab, motor build etc. done (gleefully) by my tormented-on-occasion self. These are incredibly logical machines, with your prior experience, I think the hardest thing you’ll have done a year from now when looking at this project in hindsight was just acquiring the machine itself.
Thanks all once again for the help. I at least now have a dim clue...Very dim Hmmm must be the Lucas electrics..
