I was just going to paint round it to be honest. My main concern is the rotten top hat sections underneath but hoping to replace them in the future with bits from YRM Metal. As for getting the paint off the bonnet. Tried a heat gun but was not great ( don’t have a blow torch yet) so using a belt...

With the bonnet off, going to strip that right back to metal.... it’s in a right state. After this Covid19 lockdown is done I’m going to treat myself to some new top hat sections for the underside.... they’re pretty rotten right now.

While getting some decent jobs done I’ve been sanding and roughing up ready for some paint. I have the bonnet off and all panels (bar rear and doors - going to treat them as separate projects) ready for a lick of paint. I would dearly love to get a decent spray job done but don’t have the money...

Finally got all my trop roof rivets done, once I bought a long handled rivet gun; my original gun gave up the ghost half way through doing the 45 trop roof rivets. My new gun is good, easy to use but a hell of a shock/bounce when the mandril snaps. . Decided to get the inside roof linings done...

Bugga..... I maybe should’ve given that more thought; thinking more of the aesthetics than practicality there. Cheers though... I’ll keep an eye on that.

It was time to get the trop roof back on. Most of the original spacers were shot, mostly split. Rubber washers perished beyond use. Looked up new replacement spacers but way too expensive so just went online (ages ago) and ordered nylon spacer washers, some m8 black bolts and some basic rubber...

The weather warming up a bit this week I thought, let’s get a coat of paint on the roof.... the roof roof, not the trop roof, which has been finished for months now, waiting to be put back on. Soon as I started on the first day, wind picked up so had loads of wee seed type things stuck to the...

Here is the result of several days spraying.... just 5 mins a time.

Finally got a coat of paint on the roof today so, my thoughts turn to the roof lining, in prep of getting tropical back on. Both interior roof liners were pretty manky with lots of wee rips throughout. Patched up the rips by glueing similar coloured cloth on the reverse. Bought some spray after...

1972 Series 3, 2.25 petrol engine with new Weber Carb and electronic ignition, both fitted back end of last year by a garage. Running really well, no problems at all. All of a sudden while doing about 40mph, cough, splutter, terrible misfiring. Made it home though. Couple of days later, drove it...

I wasn’t getting any heat out of the drivers window vent, nothing at all. A quick check and I could feel hot air coming from underneath the lower dash. Removed the parcel tray etc and took off the lower dash. It was so rotten (especially the corner near the hole for the heat exchanger) that no...

A while back, someone pulled out on me because I had yet again left the indicator on..... I can’t see the indicator bulbs because of the steering wheel. So decided to do some wiring. While I was at it, added a few other bits and bobs. First thing was internal lights. Wired straight from battery...

Well the weather has been a bit unpredictable to say the least so painting is on hold right now. But, doesn’t mean to say I can’t take some bits inside while the wife is away with work. So, wheels off, let’s get cracking. Used a brush attached to an angle grinder for the most part, although a...

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Over Christmas I really wanted to sort out the rear window guides, which were totally shot to bits. A quick google and I found Rocky Mountain Spare so ordered a set of rear windrow tracks. Looking on some forums found several people extolling TeriAnn’s fitting guide at...

I’ve scraped and sanded the main roof as best I can. just waiting for warmer weather before getting that painted. It won’t be perfect but it’ll be better than what it was. Oh, you can see here the front vents refitted. It got water tested by some serious rain and seemed ok (wanted to make sure...

Oh yeah.... and while we were at it, we took off the tropical roof..... it was well scabby looking and someone had tried to paint the actual roof and made a mess of it. So, in for penny in for pound. Took most of the paint with a heat gun a scraper and when I could do that, used the angle...

Gave the vents a good sanding and blitzed off the external paint (limestone) with an angle grinder brush. Made new foam gaskets (old ones were rotten and full of Aluminium oxide dust) and then used some sealant adhesive stuff between roof - gasket and gasket - vent.... belt and braces type...

With the weather turning I fancied a wee job that I could do indoors. So I decided to re-furb the vents in the roof; they were well rusted up and inoperable. As soon as I touched them the brackets just fell off, all rivets were rotten and the vents were barely attached to the roof at all. So, I...

While I was looking at the electrics/wiring I thought I would have a check and see why the temperature gauge wasn’t working. Change the sender… No difference. I decided there and then to swap it out for a capillary gauge so I could read the actual temperature. It wasn’t until ages later that I...