Fellow MMM-ers,
Eleven years after I brought home a basket case PA 2-seater, I have finally
made the time to begin the assembly of the body to the chassis. Naturally,
having not taken the car apart myself, and having never restored a PA
before, I am running into questions!
The first should be a no-brainer but it sure has me puzzled. I have set the
body on the chassis and found four mounting holes - two at the rear, where
angle brackets on the body meet angle brackets on the chassis, and two at
the front where holes in flat plates on the body line up with holes in the
chassis. So far, so good. However, there are, on the chassis, five
upside-down U-bolted plates (2 each end of the two chassis cross members,
one in the center of the forward crossmember). These look as though they
should support something, as their flat surface is uppermost and the
threaded ends point upwards, apparently awaiting something to be bolted to
them.
I can't believe that body is held to the chassis with only four bolts, so
I'm guessing there are some kind of brackets that go on at least the
outboard U-bolt plates, connecting to the side rails of the body. I have no
unidentified brackets in any of the boxes, tins, paper bags, etc., that the
car came in. Can someone please confirm the mounting method of the body to
the chassis, and describe what goes on these U-bolted plates?
TIA
Lawrie Alexander
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