Along the centre line of the bonnet
12" 5/32" from the top edge of the chrome bar for the front hole then,
10" 33/64" further back for the second hole.
It also says to drill the holes at 3/8" seems too big to me though
This is off the original packaging for the NASCO Beauty Kit.
My 6yr old daughter said
"Dad your car's looking great! Which end is the front?"
Brett027 wrote: Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:10 pm
There was someone looking on fb/ ek Facebook site earlier today.
That's why I posted the pics, i looked on the forum and the links had broken , couldn't find the thread on my phone using Tapatalk but found this one so I thought good enough ......
I started with nothing and still have most of it left.
Foundation member #61 of FB/EK Holden club of W.A.
Thanks to @ekspcl and @blacky for variously sharing the measurements and the scanned instructions.
One thing that I find with these cars is the need to frequently deal with bonkers-sounding dimensions like "12 and 5/32" and "10 and 33/64" as opposed to clean dimensions like 309 mm and 267 mm. I realize that the cars were based on imperial dimensions, but nonetheless I find the dimensions hilarious. It also means that I need to find my father's old imperial tape measure, which I usually don't keep close to hand. In contrast, where it concerns finding and using imperial drill bits, I find the dimensions utterly frustrating. Sometimes the fractions are easy to compare (e.g. 3/8 is clearly larger than 1/4) but sometimes the fractions are maddening. How about this - Which is bigger 13/17 or 16/21? This combination hasn't occurred yet, but I am waiting for it to arise somewhere in the depths of the workshop manual.
Reminds me of railway station platform 9 and 3/4 in the Harry Potter story.
be carefull calling them bonnet birds, i copped a drilling on facebook from some old fart rivet counter on they are not called bonnet birds they're bonnet emblems and only the uneducated call them bonnet birds
sometimes yor just better off shitting in yor hands and clapping