The door, bonnet and seat base are at the painters (droipped them off yesterday). I just need the painter to come and collect the tub and hardtop sides with a flatbed truck (they’re going to borrow their neighbour’s). Fingers crossed, that’ll happen tomorrow.

The tub, seat box an bonnet have been ready for painting for some time. Today I finished re skinning the driver’s door and preparing the hard-top sides. These will be sent for painting ASAP. The only remaining panel prep work is to make the roof panel watertight and to cut the alpine light apertures. This […]

I have just collected the front wings, grille panel and one vent flap from the painter. The second flap had suffered a run and is being redone. Apart from 4 or 5 dust flecks in one of the wings, they’re perfect. Those defects will polish out without much effort. The tub is being collected tomorrow, […]

Tub jobs today. I finished setting up the front end to take the bulkhead removal bar (all bolt holes, rivnuts etc), and trimmed the vertical posts of the bar to suit the SIII as opposed to Def structure. I have redrilled the holes in the tub’s rear x-member to align perfectly with the chassis x-member’s […]

I have completed the windcreen. The outside of the frame was tripped and repainted with matt black stone-chip resistant paint. The interior was originally going to be left in bare galv, but after cleaning it, the finish didn’t look very good, so it was etched and sprayed in satin black enamel. The glass retaining strips […]