The factory moved the water tanks around too. I decided that the "overflow" tank was usefull and should be kept but not in the original inaccessible location.
I decided to move it where I could get to it easily. To do that no tanks "off the shelf" even came close.
This tank needed to be fabricated and for me it was easiest to use brass sheet and solder it together.
To get to this shape several mock ups were made from cardboard, then about 30 more changes to make it conform to the space allotted to it.
Everything in the Pantera is subject to the original compound shapes and curves of the original design so solutions are not necessarily simple but when arrived at, to me, seem obvious.
In retrospect, I like this strange boomerang shape.
Everyone has their own opinion but I don't wear Gucci loafers so I'm not bound by the same constraints as the Lamborghini designers are? I actually make the stuff (as pitiful as that might seem to some) but I'm ok with that. I get dirt under my finger nails instead of wearing nail polish. Yucky, I know.
For some inexplicable reason at this very moment, Randy Newman comes to mind...don't know why? "Living in America is really neat...you don't need to run through the jungle and scrape up your feet?" Hum? Now why did I say that? Sorry...beats me?
Any of this stuff is removable with a couple of screws and the car is returnable to it's original bland configurations? Boring as they are. Some like that. Go figure...right?
Oh...there is additional stainless heat shielding that is not in place in these pictures.
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