At long last with the engine almost in a position to run, I was waiting for the exhaust system which I now have as whilst I was waiting for it I started attempting to do a pre-fit of the body panels. As you can see from the photograph it looks as if it is fitted! Looks can be deceptive, without welding and grinding equipment I have become stymied! When I stripped the panels off all those years ago in 2000, little did I realise what I was letting myself in for. I had all of the panels where they had had the 1960's renovation carried out on them (aluminium panels pop riveted on to the rusted wings, etc and fibre glass filled then ground down to make it look good) repaired by cutting out the rusted areas and new metal being welded on. This was then ground down to smooth it off, shot blast to give good paint adhesion and filler sprayed.
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