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Major delouse / dust down of workshop whilst the bodyshell was outside - round 2 sees the remaining panels put into primer as of last night with along with a load of minor / small metal parts / fittings - this just leaves about 10 internal metal window surrounds which have been bare metaled but require priming at some stage but I need to concentrate on the outer / closure panels first

Bonnet, boot, osr wing & several minor metal parts prepped & painted

We have a logistics problem with getting the car to the NEC for the show - space is tight in the van so the rear axle - built up as a sub assembly was fitted to the car on a temporary basis it will be removed when we get to the show - same thing for the front suspension - although for movability the transit axle / wheels will stay on the front - the red wheels on the back axle are temporary and will be exchanged for a set of rims that I will put into the green body colour

My fellow Jowett sparing partner Keith was with me on Sunday so I took full advantage of him - once I had fitted the bulkhead webbing & bonnet hinges he gave me a hand to fit the bonnet

Must invite more visitors as the workshop becomes more civilised with tea & biscuits, front bumper bar irons were fitted followed by the bumper & over riders - with some minor shimming we got the fit aligned - bumper was then removed for fitting at a later date

Bonnet was then flatted & polished

The boot lid was fitted along with the rear wings - wings fitted on a temporary basis to check for the bumper iron fit and alignment (these travel through apertures in the wings) the irons required quite a lot of fettling / shimming along with the brackets - the rear of the car had suffered a shunt at some stage in it's life and whilst I had all the panels realigned whilst undertaking the restoration I knew that the bumper mountings / brackets to the rear would require some reworking to get the bumper alignment / end wrap alignment equal to the curvature of the rear wings - The wings need to come back off to enable the piping bead to be fitted but I don't intend to undertake this until the show - again for logistical reasons the wings will go on the car to the show as this the safest way of transporting them without damaging the panels / paintwork - osr wing was flatted and polished - I flatted the bootlid but I have a paintwork defect that I am not happy with hence the boot will be repainted

Couple of images detailing the torsion bar suspension set up - rears travel horizontally behind the rear seat whilst the fronts pick up from the lower suspension arm and run down the inside of the chassis rails

Not too much done on the Javelin so far this week as I had a modern booked in for repair - none the less I have managed to get the remaining 5 panels that were in primer flatted and ready for paint - the modern is finished - just have to give it a quick wash off and go and deliver it and I can start to get the remaining panels looking shiny this afternoon

All 4 doors prepped & painted along with the nearside rear wing