Nice video of the finished 'Mazzer roadster' is now on our youtube channel or you can watch it here:

Many thanks for the superb video skills of Carlyle Murcielago, owner/creator of Carlyle's Picks channel. If you are seeking a great professional videographer, he is the man.

...more photos from Le Belle Macchine D'Italia

All photos: Robert Neary

Finally, the body completed!

We reached another milestone and brought the Mazzer roadster to the Belle Macchine D'Italia at Mt. Airey Lodge in Mt. Pocono over 4th of July weekend.  The bodywork is complete, engine installed, exhaust headers on  - next I need to get the engine running and begin road testing.  Here are some photos, kindly donated by ace photographer Robert Neary:

In paint

At long last we're putting a drive on to finish this project. The 'Mazzer Roadster' is now in final paint, getting ready for the Belle Macchine D'Italia concorso d'eleganza in the Poconos at the end of June. We can't wait! Next time I post this long dreamed of hand built car will be a driving machine. And we'll be working on something else. :P

finally - in primer!

chassis alignment, camber/caster/toe angles

Photos 1 and 2
It's time to bolt the bigger body sections to the chassis but first I had to do some prep work like make sure the chassis and suspension are square (It would be a lot more difficult with the full body in place). One very important part of that was to make sure that the detachable rear sub-frame, which carries the differential, rear brakes and rear suspension was perfectly aligned with the center-line of the car.

The first step was to measure between the pick-up points of the front and rear suspension systems to find the exact center-line of the car. I had already done a lot of the preliminary work to establish the center-line while building the chassis. Plum-bobs were hung from the front and rear center points of the chassis and a string was stretched along the shop floor directly under the points of those 2 plum-bobs, establishing the chassis center-line just above the floor.

When the chassis was built, I made up 2 detachable lateral bars, with adjustable ends, that attach to the front and rear of the chassis. A String was run along each side of the car, between the afore mentioned removable bars. These 2 strings were adjusted to be parallel with each other and the center-line string via a plumb-bob at each bar end (each corner) to form a perfect box which was aligned with the chassis. Measurements were made from the string sides of the box and adjustments were made to the rear sub-frame and suspension to make it all nice and square to hopefully eliminate a lot of potential handling problems.

Photo 3
I also set the camber, caster and toe angles. The Quattroporte (Jaguar style) rear suspension uses the half-shafts as the upper control arms. Camber is adjusted by stacking shims behind the inboard U-joints. I still need to adjust bump-steer.

Photo 4
I got a little ahead of myself when I made the roll-bar braces earlier and forgot that I still needed to adjust the rear sub-frame, which the braces anchor to. After adjusting the sub-frame I had to cut the braces apart, cut new bolt eye tubes for the ends and prep the joints for re-welding.