{"id":213,"date":"2007-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:15:41","slug":"bel-airbattery-stays-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Battery Stays Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set out today to do some little bits and bobs as I didn&#8217;t have much time this weekend. I drove it out and turned it round first so that I could work on the other side of the car. First thing was the missing bit of trim on the wing, no real drama there. Next was a few adjustments to the trunk lock to get it to sit a little better. Unfortunately I managed to chip the edge of the paint while I was doing it. Yet another battle scar, and it&#8217;s not on the road!. I was running out of time so I decided to put the battery hold down that my mate John gave me.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"324\" alt=\"Battery-Hold-Down.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2007\/01\/Battery-Hold-Down.jpg\" \/>   I think I must be getting the hot-rod bug as I decided it wasn&#8217;t pretty enough despite the fact it will ultimately be covered over. I made a cardboard template for the rough shape that I wanted and folded it to get the correct length. Once that was done, I transferred it to a strip of aluminium and started to fold it up. After a lot of careful checking and re-shaping I rounded off the corners and sanded the scratches out before giving it a quick polish. Two stainless bolts and the battery isn&#8217;t going anywhere. It will have an MDF cover over the whole thing so I don&#8217;t lose any trunk space. Another little job off the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set out today to do some little bits and bobs as I didn&#8217;t have much time this weekend. I drove it out and turned it round first so that I could work on the other side of the car. First thing was the missing bit of trim on the wing, no real drama there. Next was a few adjustments to the trunk lock to get it to sit a little better. Unfortunately I managed to chip the edge of the paint while I was doing it. Yet another battle scar, and it&#8217;s not on the road!. I was running out of time so I decided to put the battery hold down that my mate John gave me.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"324\" alt=\"Battery-Hold-Down.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2007\/01\/Battery-Hold-Down.jpg\" \/>   I think I must be getting the hot-rod bug as I decided it wasn&#8217;t pretty enough despite the fact it will ultimately be covered over. I made a cardboard template for the rough shape that I wanted and folded it to get the correct length. Once that was done, I transferred it to a strip of aluminium and started to fold it up. After a lot of careful checking and re-shaping I rounded off the corners and sanded the scratches out before giving it a quick polish. Two stainless bolts and the battery isn&#8217;t going anywhere. It will have an MDF cover over the whole thing so I don&#8217;t lose any trunk space. Another little job off the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bel-air","category-electrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}