Firstly, Happy new year to you all. It has been a strange Christmas and New Year period with the lockdowns and the changes to plans.
Since the last post, the car has had a lot of remedial work carried out to the bodywork to complete items that were unfinished and correct a few fibreglass issues that were a little 'dinged' around the edges.
The main car, minus the bonnet has been shipped over to the Bodyshop courtesy of longtime friend Terry and has now had the majority of it rubbed right back, even the colouring on the roof has been taken back to the base.
Due to the current restrictions in travel and contact with others at this time, My comms with the bodyshop are mainly via phone or email so I've added pictures below of the current progress.
A few more pictures below showing some smaller areas of the car.
Whilst this work has been going on, there have been further remedial works on the bonnet section, after taking back the filler layers on the bonnet it was found that there was a lot of cracking, fractures and areas of damage to the bonnet that have likely been caused by repairs to earlier accident damage, the bonnet is still with Redline at this time having holes filled on the underside where the Air filter has rubbed the bonnet bulge over time.
The areas where radial cracking was located are marked out on the bonnet in the black dots, these are being drilled out and filled with new glass fibre.
In addition to the repairs extra reinforcement has been added to the back edge of the bonnet to give strength to the rather thin sections currently in place.
Dad has also repaired the mounting brackets on the closing panel that sites under the main dash panel this section houses the electric window switches. A number of these mounting points were rotten and have been replaced entirely.
That's all for the time being, there will be more updates shortly as the body work is about to have the first filler coat added so I will add further pictures very shortly.
