Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

First of all, I've put a cover page back on POHT after having it offline for almost half a decade or something. There's nothing new on the site, but at least now people can look at the old galleries and articles. It says this on the page but let me repeat that the “for sale” galleries are out of date and if you email the people in them you'll just annoy them.:

Also, because people ask me about it constantly, I've put up an info page on how the rear of the Kelmark functions… I guess a lot of people want to do this conversion. I'd certainly recommend it.

My apologies for the rust and broken exhaust bits, but I assume this shows how simple the mechanics of it are. The trick of course is getting the final fitting perfect.

To clarify, a two-legged “T” (like the symbol pi) has been fitted onto the back of the frame. This mates (via two big simple bolt hinges at the edges of the T) to brackets on a large metal plate that's attached to the bottom of the trunk — the beauty of doing it this way is that you can build the hinge assembly, then drop the rear into place, slide it around it until it's where you want, and then bolt it onto the hinge plate. A belt keeps the rear from flipping too far, and hydraulic cylinders provide buffering. In addition, a flange has been built where the body was cut, and inner fenders have been fabricated.