It's getting cold now, so it's not as much fun spending time in the garage. The temperature outside was down as low as -2 in the mornings according to the gauge in the car and no heating doesn't help. I got a few hours on it on Saturday and finished off the rear window trim before going through t...

I made a start on the vent windows on Saturday. The rubber seals must have been the original ones, and had gone rock hard. They were covered in silicone sealant as well just to make it even harder to clean up. I ended up cutting it up with a knife and scraping it out piece by piece. The bench gri...

The weather was a bit iffy today, and I wanted to get the other doors done and sort the boot springs. I wheeled it outside and propped up the boot with a broom to have a look at the springs. They need to be hooked in on one side and then twisted to hook into the other. It's quite hard to do if yo...

I got a load of bits through from the US on Friday, and the house is starting to look more like a parts store than a house. One of the bits that arrived was the rack and pinion steering. I didn't want to have it sat around for ages, so I pulled the original steering off and bolted it in on Saturd...