What's Next

I have decided that when I get a job and get some dosh together I want to have the car stripped of paint and a full re spray in the original metallic blue, still don't know what the colour is but I'm sure it will be a standard BL one of the period.

The front screen leaks like a sieve and the bonding has probably come away with the rust and water leaks into the front drivers side foot well. So I park it with the nose pointing up the drive and I take the carpets up when rain is forcast so the water runs down the inside of the engine bulkhead and onto the floor and it exits through a hole in the rear foot well. I did paint the floor with the blue paint I got just to protect it from the dampness, also bought a de-humidifier to dry it out, fighting a loosing battle and the leather seats are going fast. Have found a guy who will re bond the screen so just looking for a big enough window in the weather (British SUMMER) to take the screen out and clean up the flanges and stick some paint on and get it stuck back in!

The wood veneer is in quite good nick but needs a re-lacquer, I have started with some of the door cappings, going to take the dash out one day and stip the old off, give it a rub down and spray some new lacquer on, was bulking at putting varnish on and came on the idea of using car clear lacquer., I built a guitar over the xmas period and sprayed the neck on that with lacquer from Halfords and it looked a treat, can even rub it back with a bit of wet and dry to take the high gloss shine off.

Front passenger side wing has a hole developing over the head lamp and a couple of other crusty areas which need repair, and I have found a source of metal to make patches now, so some time soon the panel beating hammers and dollies are coming out and I going to make some patches. Was going to buy a couple of wings new, you can still get them but £169 + vat and delivery is a lot of cash when you don't have any.

The new door I fitted last August still hasn't been painted, it's still grey and the tank covers rear valance and sill are still grey primer, can't make my mind up to spray them black in keeping with the rest or wait till I get a re spray, in which case they may be grey for a long time!