Good progress on the bodywork today.... although the photos look as though it hasn't advanced at all! First up was the offside rear wheel arch, which seemed to go on even quicker than the first. We then had another look at the bonnet-scuttle panel gaps and decided that any remaining misalignment would be sorted by fastening the body tub properly. On starting that task we quickly realised that the outer bolt for the steering column bracket was preventing the off side lower edge clipping around the chassis properly, so we had to make a cut-out:
 |
| Front offside lower bodywork in place |
The bodywork seemed to sit much better after that, so we fastened the upper edges in place using countersunk rivets.
The next, time consuming step was to attach the scuttle: The first part of this was to "find" the four rivnuts to fasten it to..... which isn't that easy when the bodywork's covering them! Luckily we'd foreseen this problem just before attaching the body, but making the 20mm cutouts without damaging the rivnuts was a bit of a challenge.
 |
| Scuttle rivnut locations - off side |
Then came the just as fiddly job of making corresponding holes in the lower edge of the scuttle and bolting through to the rivnuts - again done largely blind with a bit of guesswork thrown in. Worked out OK in the end though, even though it was a bit time-consuming:
 |
| Offside scuttle mounting bolts |
Another day done and the car looks little different, but somehow more "together" for being held by bolts and rivets rather than gravity and g-clamps!
Whilst the car was outside we moved things around in the garage (now there are far fewer parts to store) and vacuumed the carpet (!). Not much progress, but while ever it keeps moving forward it WILL get finished!
