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@Enigmatic
OK this is a newish thread for me to join but some of you may like to see what I spend most of my non-training time doing (no its not building up more bikes). About 4 years ago I bought a 1939 Delage 3 litre engine chassis and axles in France.
It is a chassis that is within a few numbers of the two Walter Watney Le Mans cars and which would certainly have been in the factory with those two chassis. The descendants of both cars survive but neither is as it was in 1939.
I was unsure what to do with mine but when I found the correct racing Cotal gearbox I decided we should rebuild it as a correct facsimile of the 1939 Le Mans cars. This meant a lot of work we had to make from scratch new wheels, new hubs, new brakes (complete - drums, shoes and back plates) new steering box internals, new crown wheel and pinion etc etc. We also discovered that my chassis had had a big crash and some point so it all had to be unrivetted and rebuilt on a chassis jig to get it straight and square.
a new cylinder head has been cast and machined to match the original competition version of which there were only 2 or 3 and a new body has been built. We are sort of the home straight now but only recently discovered that none of the original rocker pedestals or rocker gear is up to being reused so currently we are remaking all of that together with working on the re-pro carburetors which we are making from scratch....
Let me know if this turns you on and I can post lots more!!!