Photo Update!

Ok a bit late but here are the photo's I mentioned in the last blog!

The resevoir panel and front valence have been removed as they were not in the best of conditions! I already have the NOS resevior panel to replace the rusty one and John has sourced me a front valence from the lads at Autocraft. I haven't seen it yet but John assures me its top notch!
The nearside cross member has been removed as it was really crap! John has modified a repro panel to look and fit perfect!The nearside heater channel is now in place and the rusty bottom rear quarter has been removed..
John has cut down to size a repair section , alot of other restorers would use the whole panel when actually only a small piece is needed!

The door post bottom also needed placing and only the best will do! Hookys panelshop rocks!

The door lines up perfect!
Now for the wing.. :)


More updates soon! My Strange rear brakes from RLR have also arrived! John picked them up for us while he was in the states and loaded them into a couple of busses he shipped over which arrived at the weekend! Pictures soon as they are so nice!!

Quick update

Just a quick update while i'm sorting out the photo's John has sent over! The bug is steadily progressing and is going really well! Tomorrow I should update the blog with a few photo's of the progress so far!

This week we have also ordered a set of custom Strange front brakes from Jack Sacchette (JayCee) to match our Strange Rears and also thanks to Mike Herbert from Rancho Transaxles for sourcing us the rear wheels we have been looking for! Erco Star Cut rims in chevy stud pattern!

I thought i would give Steve a day off from writing the updates and do it myself this time!
We went to the Autosport show yesterday and picked up some goodies! 2 of the below but in black, Aeromotive Fuel Filters, one is 10 Microns to be fitted after the fuel pump and the other is 100 microns to be fitted before the fuel pump. Pretty pricey (READ Nearly as much as a cheap set of wheels!! but worth every penny :)



Other thing we picked up was an Odyssey Battery as recommended by a Muffler Mike. We go it at a pretty good price too as it was the show. We were going to originally fit a Optima Red battery, but Steve suggested the odyssey on the recommendation and its also lighter which is a bonus!

More progress!!

I popped round to John's at the weekend to check out the progress and give him a hand, work has progressed really quickly and I'm super pleased with the results! John is a master! His skills are superb and I was genuinely blown away with the quality of his work. I snapped a few pics while I was there!
Here is the dash and scuttle panel donor section welded back in (and also the master at work!)

Here you can see where the dash was welded in, except for the repair is so good you really have to look close! He needs a final 'touch' and the repair will be invisible without the use of filler! How it should be done!
The front valence was also removed as my NOS resevoir panel needs to be let in.

And a quick picture of our 'smaller' workshop at our new house! We spent Sunday painting the walls and laying some carpet down! It's only temporary while we sort plans for a new big! workshop!

Dash Removed!

I had good news from John today, his oval window bug project is near completion allowing him the time to spend a few hours on ours! The dash area and steering column mount on the '59 was pretty bad so I found a RHD '59 donor section (which took ages to find!!) so John has removed the dash section of ours today and is working his magic on the donor dash section. I should have some more updates/photo's soon as John will be sending them over regularly!