I was horrified to realise earlier that it’s almost a year since I published my last post here, so as winter draws in I will be making an effort to finish off some unpublished drafts and write up the latest…
As I continue fitting up the bodyshell with parts and turning this thing back into an actual car, the jobs are starting to jump around a bit from one area to another, so I’m starting to save up my updates…
Not a great deal to say about this one, but I thought it was well worth a mention. In my quest to recreate a factory MGB GT V8 engine bay appearance as closely as possible, one of the trickier parts…
Something a bit different for today’s update. Through the course of this project I’ve accumulated many boxes of parts for my car, parts that were stripped off and squirrelled away for later refurbishment or replacement, and ultimately refitting once the…
So excited about this one, it’s been a very long time coming. So excited in fact that I managed to not take any photos at all of the important mounting process, only before and after shots, so you’ll have to…
Well, after 6 very long months, I finally have a new garage! Slightly longer, slightly wider, and much, much warmer than the old one, it’s been a long time coming, but I’m very excited to be all set up and…
This post should have been documenting the triumphant conclusion to the major bodywork repairs on the left hand side of my car, completion of which would have set me up for getting on with the last few bits (roof replacement,…
Another weekend of lockdown rolls around, so what else is one to do but work on the car again! I planned to finally finish welding up that back wing, but annoyingly I ran out of both welding wire and gas…
So as I sat there in my partially dismantled car, in its 45th birthday year, and at the start of a brand new decade, I mulled over a couple of decisions about the direction I wanted to take the project….
The picture above illustrates the situation poor old JBY has been in for the last couple of years. I’m (thankfully) at the back end of a major house renovation project, and inevitably the garage had become the dumping ground for…