Well
the warmer weather has finally arrived with a quick taste of summer
for three days before the return to typical April showers and that
seems to be heralding the arrival of the usual suspects bringing
their cars out of hibernation. There is now a positive flurry of
spring recommissioning, servicing, tuning, MoT testing and the odd
job left over from last year to be completed too.
In
amongst this we seem to be experiencing an unexpected rash of gearbox
and overdrive repairs, rebuilds and conversions on everything from
Spitfires through Vitesses and TRs to 2500s with a couple having new
propshafts to cure long standing vibration issues.
Work
also continues apace in the body shop with a brace of Heralds needing
structural repairs, both needing the right hand side of the boot
floor to be completely remade from scratch to incorporate new body
mounts and bolt the whole thing down securely to the boot outrigger
with new mounting pads and bolts to complete the job.
The
second one of these also needs the body mount brackets further
forward under the treadplate area to be replaced although
unfortunately we’re going to have to remove a whole lot of
fibreglass, filler and mastic which some very naughty person has put
in there where there should be good steel for the brackets to be
welded to rather than stuck on with seam sealer! It’s no wonder the
doors don’t open or close very well on this poor little car – oh
well, it will be better soon.
