Final Prep and Priming! Its getting real now!

 Since my last update we've had an 'easing of restrictions' somewhat from the latest COVID Lockdowns which enabled me to book a day off and travel down to the region to see the car within the bodyshop before heading to my dads for a 'Garden lunch!' 

By this point, the car has had some modifications to the bootlid fastenings where Joe at redline has now enlarged the holes so that the mounting bracket can be adjusted in any direction and a nice shiny set of new bolts and washers have been put in to aid fastening, the boot still needed some upward adjustment so that the oval cut out for the fuel tank filler is round when both surfaces come together. 

The  car has also benefitted from filler layers to smooth out some more sections of the topside area where further remedial works have taken place. 

The bonnet although attached to the car is still having corrective works carried out to smooth out the roughness of the underside fibreglass to allow for a nicer painted finish which is in the long run much easier to clean incase of any fluid splashes of oil etc. 

The below photos show some of the late setup work and priming. 

Extra large image shows the guttering strips in situ for shut line adjustment. some good lines showing already. 

At this point there is still a rusty old headlight cover bracket in place which will be ground off and any holes refilled for mounting of brand new items. 

Bonnet is not fully down here for those who notice a large gap and change in height. 

 This was as of Thursday 15th April so the next photos show the final sheeting up and in to primer stage which I'll illustrate within a further post.