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Thanks John, It does all give a boost.

Anyway, brake pipes done as far as flexis now, the rest will wait a while and I can get on with replacing the floor

Don't know about shows this year, methinks that may be a little optimistic though I do have secret hopes of it seeing tarmac before Xmas. Shouldn't have breathed that here should I, now truly jinxed it.

On the up I was at the local auction yesterday looking for clocks for my business, and got a very large chunk of new, green hessian backed carpet that will serve the car well for the princely sum of £16

arceye wrote:..and got a very large chunk of new, green hessian backed carpet that will serve the car well for the princely sum of £16

Interior sorted & enough to fit out 'Er Indoors'?


alfaSleep

Nice to see some colour!
What colour is it, it reminds me of a 70's Ford colour.

Alfa, there may well be enough, but the good lady will have to make do with sack cloth for now as you never know when you need a spare piece do you?

Fred, you are right re Ford colour, its Empire Blue, chosen mainly because its available off the shelf in a Machinery / Tractor enamel paint which I've become rather fond of using in recent years. It's good to spray and lasts well, conditions up on the North coast not being great for applying cellulose at the best of times unless you have the proper facilities.

Love this post! Very inspiring...

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.

Arceye

The car is coming along nicely, it is always good to know a little history of the car

Take it easy with the ticker!

Nick

/\/\/\ WHS.

I think that you're underestimating just how well you're progressing with a car that may well have been sent away for scrap by now, had it fallen into the hands of someone possessed of less vision.

Looking in on your rebuild courtesy of the detailed images that appear in this thread, I'm seeing a car whose restoration is progressing at a remarkable pace, given how neglected the poor old thing had been.

Keep up the great work, it's inspiring.

^^^WHS^^^

That'd have taken me 2 years to get that far.....

Keep it up mate.

Cracking! But take it easy with the old ticker!