I finished repairing and priming the shell back in March of this year and spent the Spring building up the chassis and running gear. By the end of May, it was time to swap them back over and get to work on getting the shell finished. Having enlisted some help to get it back in the garage, I had a good look over […]
Now the body had been repaired, epoxy primed and sealed, I moved on to the chassis. I have actually been here once before and started to build up a rolling chassis a couple of years ago. I wasn’t pleased with the paint job though so the chassis went off to be stripped with the rest of the car. I basically had to start […]
The time had finally come to get the body stripped down and start work on repairs. I decided to go down the chemical stripping route and in February last year, sent all the body panels, body tub and chassis to Prostrip Ltd in Nottingham. I had the chassis done since I wasn’t really happy with the paint finish on it from last time. […]
I originally stripped the whole engine nearly 4 years ago. The main caps and big ends/conrods were already numbered so I think it may have had new big end and main bearings or something at some stage. The pistons look like the original ones as they are stamped with “Stanpart”. I knew the big end was on the way out again though because […]
Once the gearbox was complete the overdrive was next up. It’s a Laycock J type used on many cars of the era. Mine always worked quite well so I wasn’t expecting to find anything particularly out of order. It basically consists of an epicyclic gear system which allows the input shaft to reduce speed by about 25% in 3rd and 4th gears. Much […]