Gotta earn its’ keep

The man from the Ministry … he say “yes”  Advisories on the sills and the exhaust, but they’ve been advisories for at least the previous two MOTs and are on the to-do list, so don’t bother me.  I think the issue with the handbrake is most likely simply the cable stretching (it’s probably still the 29…

Testing times

I managed to get a quick spray of blue onto the car when I got home last night and to allow suitable drying time we nipped out to the pub for a swift half  When we got back at about 1am  I got the mirrors on and adjusted, the doorcards fitted and gave the windows a quick…

Doesn’t time fly ?

Amazing as it seems, this thread is now almost a year old  Thanks for all your help and encouragement folks  All of which means that the car’s due for an MOT . I took the opportunity at college this week to get the car up onto the ramps and have a good look around underneath, attack…

Back to the test station

        Woohoo, it’s passed second time round  Mr MOT had a look at the welding and said “Oh, that’s nice to see, that is. Proper old-timer’s welding – you don’t see much of that nowadays.” It was nice to be able to tell him that the chap who’d done it was (at most) half his…

Let’s fix that sill

Well, to answer one of my own questions, the discs are the drain plugs for the wheel well, which, for reasons best known to Ford are metal. Quite why you’d put a metal plug in a metal hole in a bath of water and then expect your customer to remember to pull the plug out…