On a sad note, I heard that the old boy I got this car from passed away on Christmas Eve Hopefully he’ll have approved of what I’m up to. R.I.P. fella… OK, I actually feel guilty for not doing anything of late The last few weeks have been filled with visiting friends and family, and trying to get the house purchase sorted out – pretty difficult when everyone takes 3 weeks off…
Headlamp bowls now dealt with, for the moment, at least until I’ve got better access when I replace the front wings (did anyone say “scope creep” ??? ). Cleaned them out with a variety of brass cups and flap wheels in the drill (gotta admit I basically just got one of everything and kept trying each one to see what happened) … … then applied the magic rust killer ……
Rather annoyingly, I’m getting home from work too late at the moment to start cutting up bits of metal to practice with the welding … especially as the garage shares a wall with next door’s lounge To not lose momentum, last night I started to take apart the front end of the car to gauge how much work was needed here. The bolts on the outer bumper brackets didn’t want…