Here it is!

As promised here’s the update!

The unplanned engine rebuild is finished. We are just waiting for some decent roads for the customer to have it trucked home. I would say bite the bullet and drive it hardy but with the road salt and all… The engine looks great and purrs like a…an MG!

Just an oil change???

The fender on the accident victim has a bit of welding to do on the new fender then it’s off to paint. It’s been fitted and looks nice. The push is to get these two, last of the service season, cars back home. Then the winter restoration period can get into full swing. Not that restorations have fallen by the wayside, we have made progress on non-paint restoration work but we need the paint booth to get into full swing.

Fender fitted

Paint wise we have a line up that’s scary. First is the accident finder on the TD. Then the doors for 53TD. The frame for the TF. By then the two TD’s should be gone and the floor opened up. The TF frame will find a home where it was taken apart. That will leave the booth open and BlownTC can come into the main shop. The body is going to be taken off so the frame can be painted decently. Then the rest of BlownTC and 53TD’s body parts need painting. The TA body tub will be back by spring and that’s another body and parts that will need painting. My personal TD body parts (forget those.) The Beast’s body and parts…. get the picture. Quite a backlog for the paint booth isn't it?

The dash on 53TD is almost finished and the interior is going in. I’ll wire it soon. All we need is ummm painted body parts!!!

53TD Dash

BlownTC is my mission…to get it into the paint booth. A lot of the parts are ready to go back onto the frame but it isn’t painted. I want to get the TC into the main part of the shop so it can be worked on.

The Beast is moving along. A lot of the major components are on their way to rebirth. I hope to get the frame out of the paint booth soon. Today I went to the machine shop and retrieved the engine components. The stripper will be finished with the body parts this week, by weeks end we hope to have all of the body back. And the shocks will be rebuilt by the second week of January. The carbs and oil pump have been rebuilt…not bad progress!

The TF carbs

The 37TA body tub is nearly finished. The gauges are back from England. And the dash panel is nearing completion. Soon we will have to get the frame out of the Quonset hut and bring it into the shop. But we don’t expect to see the body tub until late winter early spring.

That brings most cars up to date. I’ll try to be a bit more vigilant on getting posts up on a regular basis.