bit of this and that

Ages since my last update. It is not exactly as if I have been doing nothing. On the spitfire I have done next to nothing - not even bothered to adjust the dampers. And foolishly I have managed to misplace both set of keys for the car, so it is sitting miserably in the carport these days. Actually the keys werent misplaced - I had a moment of paranoia and hid the keys very weel for the instance the house would be burgled while I was away. When I needed the keys 4 days later I couldn't remember where I had hid them :B They will turn up eventually - hopefully before spring!

So basicly what has been done to the spit this season has been putting almost 3.000 miles on it and done nothiong but an oilchange and new oilfilter (well, then the insurance has sorted out new bumper and fixing the bonnet, but that does not count!)

On the GT6 major work is going on. Most of the car has been taken to bits now.







I am currently removing old underseal (waxoil?) from the bonnet, so it can be sent of to the sandblaster. The bonnet is far worse than expected. I will most likely have to replace a wing plus the panel under the headlight. :-/

Fair bit of filler around the headlight panel :o








:'( :'( :'(



Removing underseal is a pain in the whatever - especially when the car has been left for 20 odd years in the california desert. One should thing it was dried out and easy to remove - but no - it has more or lees been burned into the paint. Actually I am removing more paint than undersealer.







Do notice that the yank who was the previous owner of this vehicle did not believe in welding - he has obviously put all his effort into soldering the car together!!!!

Wont be pretty when it comes back from sandblasting!