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The lever farthest away from you is the emergency brake and the lever closest to you in this picture is the forward/reverse lever.  Once the body is completed these levers will be in the floor near your feet.

Here you see the emergency brake mechanism near the rear wheels.  The spring will keep the brake pads away from the rear tires unless you push on the emergency brake lever.

Here you see closeups of the brake pads that will be pushed against the rear tires when the emergency brake is applied.  Simple and crude but effective.  Remember the actual brakes are inside the transaxle.  Pulling the forward/reverse lever towards you makes the car go forward.  As you push the lever back to the center (or neutral) position causes the car to stop.

This is another closeup of the emergency brake mechanism near the rear axle.  After reading about the accidents others have had when the chain broke - I decided to beaf up the emergency brake mechanism.  Should the drive chain break there would be no brakes since the brake is inside the transaxle.  This gives you a simple but effective means of stopping the car should the chain break.

These are the pieces that will make the battery tray.

Here the four pieces have been welded together to make the battery tray.  It has been positioned on the frame and is ready to be welded in place.

Here the battery tray has been welded to the frame, the rubber insert and the battery placed in the tray.  The rubber will be trimmed later.  Also, the actual pieces that will hold the battery down in the tray will be installed later.

These are two sheets of 3/4 inch plywood that will be used to make the body parts.

This is one of the sheets of 3/4 inch plywood with the side template in position.

After tracing the template on one side, it is flipped over and traced to mark the other side.

The angle iron clamped to the plywood allowed me to cut a straight line with the circular saw.  Now I must carefully cut along the template marks with the jig saw.

One side has been cut with the jig saw.

Here both side panels have been cut and are waiting to have the edges sanded.

Both side panels have been clamped together and will remain clamped until they are sanded to match perfectly along the curves.

Here you can see that the curves have been sanded to match perfectly.  The clamps have been removed and we are ready to cut the braces that will help form the curved front.

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