Bit on the front, bit on the back, bit on the side….
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Spent a happy four days on the farm fettling bits to bolt back on.
I used the parts washer to clean up the oil filters and fitted those (although I’ve used the brackets from the wrong car so will have to change those next time.
I rubbed down the scabby old fuel filler flaps – which took ages, and primed them ready to paint.
I fitted the cut-out switch in the boot and the cable from the battery to starter motor.
And then plunged headlong intio the horror that was the wiring loom.
The only way I could untangle it all was to separate it into branches and wrap each branch up with a label identifying which part of the car it fed. Many of the sticky labels we had put on during the dismantling process had come off, so working out which wires feed which lights is going to be fun!
The back of the car is pretty well done now, and i have a choice. I can either put the orignal back end on, with the three light cluster, or i can put the slightly later back end on from the othe car. This has the four light cluster which I prefer the look of.
Essentially I am building ROJ from the ground up. It was a modified car before, and many of the parts I am using are from other cars anyway – so rather than building it as it came from the factory, I am taking a leaf out of the Sultan of Brunei’s book, and building the car to my specifications.
The last few hours on Easter Monday I spent in the barn rubbing down the fourlight rear end which I will fit next month.
My mother during the war with what we think is a Tickford bodied MG
An early pride and joy – Jaguar XK140
My mother and sister in West Africa
Father and sister
My two sisters
Another barge in Teheran – Opel Kapitan
The Dodge’s ‘evil eye’
My grandfather and friends in Rio in the late twenties early thirties
And finally – how I miss that little Clubman… sniff.
