Thank Jean,
Been a little while since I last updated, things having yet again gone a little slower than planned. This in part due to a visit to the hospital to have some nice folks shove some tube up my arteries and round the ticker to take a closer look at things, reckon I know how a drain feels when you call in dyno rod now
, so me being a soft sod and threats of re opening up the artery at the wrist and losing the red stuff very quickly
if I didn't take it easy being enough to persuade me to take a week off.............
Once over that I reckoned it was time to crack on and again I'm getting an hour or two in most evenings.
Anyway, I finally got the seat base sorted, the drivers floor made up and fitted along with a couple of repairs to the gear box cover.
So, lots of new steel used again and then onto the drivers side lower door shuts / sills.
After some wood butchering I've made and fitted the steel sections.
Again a skim of filler will be needed just to finish off, then a little work to the steel above the rear passenger door will bring this area of the car to a close for now.
I recently got a bit of detail on the cars previous history from the RM club, who first recorded the car four years ago when the previous keeper had apparently tried to find a buyer for it.
It has had four previous keepers, the first in 1954 being a Brig Geoffrey EW Franklin of Colchester, it was then sold on a couple of times before the previous owner aquired it in 1966. He fetched it all the way up here when he moved then apparently in 1967 put it in the lock up, jacked it up and left it on blocks.
So the car had been standing in the damp lock up for about as long I've been living which probably explains a lot, makes it all very satisfying somehow.
