A little update in lieu of more happening this coming week. Lots of new parts trickling from the US and Japan. The FedEx man must wonder what I’m up to.
The electrical work is all sorted and all gremlins ironed out. Everything works. Gauges, lighting etc. I have added a new power supply and hidden away some speaker cables for the future addition of a radio. I also added an oil pressure warning switch circuit and a discrete warning lamp; also a hidden USB charger. All are reversible mods but worthy upgrades I think.
The horns have been replaced and rewired and a new repro washer bottle fitted and wired. I used some nice small 989 LED bulbs which fitted well into the gauges and didn’t interfere with the coloured inserts in the gauges. These dim really nicely and give a good brightness.
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I mentioned earlier that the roof was in a poor state. Not only was the paint really bad but it was badly dented and would ‘pop’ up and down with light pressure. The paint everywhere else will do for now but I had to get the roof sorted so we could get some use out of the car this summer.
I’m lucky to have access to an ace paint and body guy a quarter mile from my house. He generally just does classics or anything that interests him. He takes the odd customer car here and there and does these alongside his own restorations.
The first pic with the screen out. A bit of surface rust but nothing has gone through.
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This is the best place to see the original colour of the car. It has been silver and is now grey. Ultimately it’ll be going back to the blue. I think this might be colour code 307 but I need to research this properly.
This is the roof stripped and de-stressed (essentially heated up and beaten)
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Primed and guide coated..
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Ready for paint…
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And finally painted yesterday…
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It’ll be going back in the winter for a complete repaint. The roof repair would have been a big part of the prep involved in that so nothing has been lost really.
The screen fitter is coming on Tuesday so I should have the car back early next week. The next step is to put together my temporary fuel injection project and get the car roadworthy for us to use over the summer.