to day i spent a bit of time with stephen and tiny in the garage, first stripped the bars that hold the roof down and the switch gear surrounds , and painted them satin black , then connected up the pull start , fed steering switch gear wires through bulk head ,refitted steering ,reconnected switches along dash .fitted bonnet and boot hold up bars , love the chrome ash tray even thou i dont smoke
eddie cooke ie stig of the dump came down and helped me lol him fit windows and a few other bits bumper bars going in stig chrome insert tool roof brackets
am at the stage of finding things missing or corners cut , stuff not kept together to keep this running smooth , i ve lost heart this last couple of days , door frame assembley i lost the head doing these , i assembled the same quarter frame wrong 2 times i broke the ds quarter glass latch doh was at a friends house and he produced this 1952 sherline limo , registerd to royal family , was used in queens cornation to shift people about so he tells me he 83 has it years nice from a far not my cup of tea but nice
spent the day going round checking all nuts and bolts on the engine that haddened been tightened so copper greased and tightened , fitted coil and bracket , that clamps around the dynamo, fitted water pipe clips from head to block , fitted starter motor . general tiding . fittted 4 window scrapers , etc long day and not much to see lol
went in to day and painted the foot pedal s , then rubbed down the original number plates quite heavey, 4 coats of 2k black , il then sand them with fine paper and take the paint of the letters and polish them up . i also done the inside of the overiders too , spent quite a while trying to get the bonnet to close and open right . no amount of what i done would do it . then colm with fresh eyes spotted the problem , i had the release catch the wrong way round DOH , plus it was catching on the slam panel when coming up , so this was reamed out. now working . then refitted the hockey sticks and front panel and grill, james DARBY cooke came to look it over he is going to wire it for me and pointed out some stuff ,
meet DARBY stigs older brother , he is going to rewire the morris for me , he s going to clean and rewrap it before i leave the car up with him , on sat now with the ole loom at his feet wee buns he says
2 steps forward 20 back you ever get a few days like that . well i ve had them lol . done everything to line up ps door on off on off , then it fitted with a lot of help from friend panel beater colm , ds side one no chance . had 4 different people to look and give advice , they all came to the same conclusion , welding was done with out the door on to check gaps , do it was a case of splice the inner sill and middle sill cutting a 3mm v cut ,then getting 3 people 2 others plus me to get inside to force the car down . haven 4 th person check the gaps , i made a filler piece to go inside the sill . weld up one side then when we had equal gaps or ones that looked better i welded up the other side of the filler piece . then welding inside too . grinding down prime seam seal and paint , making my way round the car to get as many bits on as possible , next was hood frame . first i had the catches on the wrong sides DOH and back to front , so on went the roof one side i ve found the factory missing so have a bolt in for now and it fits and looks good and UGLY
Pictures of your man Darby are all very well, but I was looking forward to seeing a pic. of 'Busty' of burger bar fame. Tony
yes very good its the name of our local chippy and busty is a friend of mine , his fish shop is a shipping container
yes very good its the name of our local chippy and busty is a friend of mine , his fish shop is a shipping container
called down to day with the refurbed number plates and hung the rear one , thats it lol and handbrake connections
