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Author: Will

Dashboard restoration

Yes, it’s time for another one of those random mid-week lockdown projects! When I stripped down my dashboard a few weeks back I noted that the main fascia panel was going to need some work before it went back in….

Left hand side rebuild part 1

With the main panel replacements finally finished on the right hand side of the car, I wasted no time in moving onto the other side before I lost my momentum. I’m not going to be posting too many updates about…

Full rear wing fitting

After weeks of preparation, fitting, re-fitting and adjustments I’m happy to have finally got the offside rear wing fully welded up at last. It’s such a large panel, which joins onto no less than 6 other panels – all of…

Sump-thing’s happening

I’ve been making some good progress on the bodywork over the last few days, but fitting the offside rear wing has just taken me a full weekend of painting and welding, and it’s still not yet completely welded up –…

V8 conversion planning

Whilst the restoration of my car’s bodywork edges slowly onwards, I thought I’d write an update on the plans I’ve been making for upgrading the drivetrain later on. As the post title kind of gives away, these are now going…

Boot floor and rear valance fitting

Slightly slow progress over the last few weeks as the world gets turned upside-down by COVID-19, but hopefully a silver lining of being housebound for the foreseeable future is that I’ll have a bit more free time to spend on…

Boot floor removal

I’ve been chopping the old boot floor to bits over the last fews weeks as I’ve replaced other bits around it, so I thought I’d collect a few photos together into a single post for reference. I deliberated a little…