Acquisition of a long held dream!

Welcome to my Blog about my ambitious restoration project of a classic 1970 Marcos 3.0V6 I hope you enjoy reading and find some technically useful information here as I know lots of owners embark on such projects also. 
Ok, Back on August 8th after a few weeks of negotiation, and with lots of assistance from some fellow Marcos friends, I picked up a Marcos 3.0 V6 which would need some restoration to bring it to how I have always wanted mine to look! This car is fitted with the Ford 'Essex' engine, mainly fitted to the Capri, Zodiac, and Zephyr, to name but a few.
These cars were originally Coupe's but this one has a major modification where the roof was removed (Ihave also got this which is remarkable so I will most likely re-attach this t the car using a good fibreglass specialist. 

About 10 years ago when someone first asked me if I would ever consider restoring one I said, 'NEVER!'' the idea of Restoring one would have been too daunting a task to me both financially and from a mechanical/knowledge point of view.

Over the last decade, I have assisted in many technical situations with other Marcos cars, (Mainly owned by both my step father's V8 and my fathers 1971 V6). So I changed heart a little, given how many close relatives and the increasing number of Marcos friends I now have to assist with technical advice.
Being fairly obsessed with Marcos from the age of 8 I have come to know my way around one! so here are some of the first pictures.

The car doesn't have all of the necessary parts in place to run under its own power (Battery/fluids etc) so we push this on to a trailer equipped with a winching mechanism.

 At this point, the car still as its old personalised plate on it, I have the original period plate details so once the car is roadworthy again, I will have one made up in the style it would have been in during 1970

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 The last photo shows that before I closed the building down, I had to remove the interior and racing harnesses as these were fairly new, I didn't want them getting destroyed by the elements or any rodents that may be lurking in the building.

The Grey leather dashboard hood with a nice edge stitching detail will be removed here, the front fascia isn't needed to be removed at this stage, as I will be getting a wood veneer dash fabricated in its place. walnut or similar?
The rocker switches are in excellent condition which is vital as these exact items are hard to come by, the Smiths instrumentation too are in good condition, all be it for a bit of cleaning and a couple of new bezels will be required to make them all as good as new.