Paint on the bonnet!

We got to see a sample spray of the underside of the bonnet this afternoon. The colour looks amazing - nice & sparkly! Now the full load of paint will be orders for application over the next week or two.

Engine work

While the shell has been in the body shop Dad's been doing a lot of work on the engine rebuild. There are lots more shots coming that I'll add when I get them.

Here's one when it was all assembled with the gearbox attached. Looking mighty impressive!

Primed and masked up

The car is looking good at the spray shop. We dropped in about a fortnight after we too these shots and it was all rubbed down inside - hopefully the next shot is a sample spray on the underside of the bonnet.

Transporting to the Paintshop

On August 9 2010 we loaded te shell onto my trailer and moved it to the spray shop - thanks for the help Denis!

Finally painting - undercoat

Next step was to get some undercoat onto the shell...

Learning to weld!

In late June / early July Dad learnt to weld and made some great progress. The animation below shows how we assembled the the front-end using the subframe as a reference...

Rolling the shell over again

Underside of the bonnet

We spot welded the the A frame back in - looking good!

Underbody

We did a lot of work on the underbody in July, including rolling the car over a few times...