Spent a happy few hours last weekend building a footlocker for the passengers side and wiring up my flying helmet.
I made an aluminium footlocker to suit my Lotus Elise about 4 years ago and it proved fairly popular so I eventually made and sold around twenty for other Elise owners. Three weeks ago as my Elise was leaving to live with a new owner I decided to see if it would fit the 4/4, and it did.
The footwell in the Morgan is not quite identical, but so close it makes no difference, so I had another shell made up and spent a few hours making up a locker for the Morgan . It's lined with boat carpet to protect the contents and stop them rattling around and has a hinged and lockable alloy checker plate door and works as well in the Morgan as it did in the Lotus. I used to remake a shorter carpet for the Elise and use heavy duty Velcro to hold the locker down to the floor pan and I would rather do that again on the Morgan than drill the floor and bolt it down so a mate with contacts in that area (TasM3W) has offered to see if it can be sourced here in Australia, short of that I will have to contact Morgan I expect to see if I can get a small amount of it.
Also, around 6 weeks ago I purchased a WWII US Navy intermediate weight NAF 1092 flight helmet in mint unissued condition.
Using a child's size stereo headset with in line microphone, I removed the over the head portion of the headset and fitted the rest to the helmet, then encased the the thin white wires in expanding woven mesh to hide them and add make the addition look more authentic. So now my flying helmet will connect to my Phone and allow me to listen to music and receive calls. I am now working on an adaptor to suit a Uniden 2 way radio for when traveling in a group. Total cost for the helmet modification was $17.00.
A very satisfying weekend in the shed
Cheers John
