8th January 2011 - Back in the garage - but not for long!

It doesn't seem like almost two months since we were in the garage.  The coldest December on record followed by Christmas has seen to that.  Talking of Christmas, Santa brought a set of bonnet locks, a brake bleeding kit and some Westfield goodies - good old Santa!

We eased ourselves back into car building with a nice simple task - fitting one of the rear wheelarches.  These are self-locating via blocks in the GRP and although there were fewer of these than the build manual said there should be, this didn't cause a problem.  We just spaced he fasteners equally:


Rear Wheelarch Fastenings

As suggested on the Owner's club forum, we used plastic number plate bolts purchased on eBay.  The theory is that if you bash the arches they just shear off rather than damaging the much-harder-to-replace bodyshell.  I suppose it might be true!

That was just about enough for the first visit of the year, although we did get the bonnet to align better by filing down the return edge at the rear side edges.  It may need a little more removing yet, but at least our worries about having to completely re-align the body were unfounded.