What's Next

Updated May2011

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!

Update

The door did get a coat of paint in 2009 if my memory serves me well, the sill, tank covers and rear valance are still in grey primer as I type this. The screen got fixed by me and then the following next week got replaced by Auto Windscreens coz it broke. Don't think it was any thing I did..

I bought in early 2010 a better dashboard from a guy in Donny via eBay, when I went to pick it up he was proud as punch to show me his other bits. He 'sort of' broke jaguars to suppliment his income and to preserve his own collection. He firstly showed me four doors 'matching' in metallic blue, didn't really want them as I had nowhere to put them, he then proceeded to tell me about a boot lid and bonnet he had newly painted, he showed me them, the boot lid, bonnet and four doors where for his S3 but he had decided it was to much work, so.. £200 quid lighter they where mine, now how to get them home and where to put them, for an extra £25 for petrol the guy from Donny delivered them in his Tranny, once delivered I rearranged my garage to house them, they are considerably better than whats on presently.

Towards the back end of 2010 I bought 2 wings off eBay for £150 from a guy in Sheffield, they where advertised as rust free, they weren't, they where supposed to be Series 3, one was a Series 2, they had filler on them, they where better than mine. After judicial repairs they are ready to be stripped ready for painting and fitting.

The plan is to get the doors, bonnet, boot and wings painted in bonny blue, strip the rear wings and roof of the Daimler, paint it bonny blue, along with the door closures, sills, tank covers, rear valance etal, fit the newer\ better bonnet, boot, doors, wings and a nice black vynil roof and we should have a presentable motor car again.

This time in 'blue'

Er! plus doing all the other jobs I find along the way