It’s getting cold now, so it’s not as much fun spending time in the garage. The temperature outside was down as low as -2 in the mornings according to the gauge in the car and no heating doesn’t help. I got a few hours on it on Saturday and finished off the rear window trim before going through the shed looking for the missing paint dividers. The box in the shed turned out not to contain them, but the clock was in there which I was wondering where it had gone. They turned up in a box of what I thought was just the old loom, along with a few other bits.

In keeping with the rest of the trim, I cleaned all the paint off the dividers and polished them up, then called it quits for the day On Sunday I set about the long rear spear which seemed to have the hardest paint in the world on. It took me two hours with the grinder wire brush to shift it all, and by the time I starter polishing it I was frozen. I put it on the car which was a pain as I spun one of the trim clips, so had to keep loosening it, spinning it back in with some pliers on the back, and then tighten slowly. Once most of the clips were on, I gave up as I couldn’t feel my hands and it was harder than it needed to be. I took the heater controls off the old unit and went into the warm. My Vintage Air kit had turned up this week, so I stripped it down and fitted all the electronic controls for it. I didn’t realise the control levers were snapped, so need some new ones. Looks good tho.