Metalwork and the P-nut fuel tank

 One element true of all hot rod owners and in particular bucket roadster owners is their desire to be unique.  While the C-bucket will be unique by virtue of its body style I wanted something else to set it apart from the crowd.  Some buckets have concealed tanks, some have round dune buggy style or beer keg tanks and still others stand out for their exposed custom square or tractor sourced tanks.  I'm taking the C-bucket in a slightly different direction with a widened motorcycle style tank.  I started with some tank half stampings which arrived with their flanges still in place

This left me with a challenge.  How to cut the flanges off with common tools while maintaining edges which were both straight and square.  The result was the redneck metal router.  A piece of wood was clamped to my welding table, an old skilsaw with a metal cutting blade was clamped to the edge of the table suspending the blade just off the table and the results were pleasingly accurate

After the half sections were cut out I traced them onto 3/4" plywood and cut several matching shapes to serve as stations on the buck when forming the center section for the tank.  These were bolted togetehr to ensure uniformity before being sanded on my handy dandy harbor freight disc sander until they matched the inside profile of the tank halves.