I have two days ahead of me in the garage so I'm going to look at the front end again in more detail.  I am unhappy with the shape of the nearside front shroud and the line of the car down both sides.  The wings and the doors make different lines as you look down the length and it troubles me.  When I was a young man I had a 1965 MG Midget which I got on the road having spent £50 to buy it, this wasn't a lot for a car even 25-30 years ago and it reflected the fact that it was knackered.  I did the usual work on the car such as new sills, floor pans etc and got it on the road, if I can find a picture I'll add it later.  Anyway, I was 18/9 and off to university and it felt like I was king of the road.  I had it 5 years and never got round to buying a hood so if it rained, and this is England so it, I got wet.  Madness really.  Anyway after about a year I discovered that my father whose workshop I had used to rebuild had loosened the throttle cable so that I never had it fully opened in an effort to keep me from crashing it.  I told him that the cable was loose and he confessed to it and followed up by saying that I'd wreck it now.  I remember being full of teenage bravado and rather indignant.  Naturally the following weekend I stuffed it in to a tree at some unearthly speed, again I remember the moment well, I had motored round a long sweeping bend in Oakwood, North London and lost the backend and the car did a few 360 degree spins in rather slow motion as I hurtled toward this tree and I hit it on the front wheel with the car sideways on.  The car then bounced off the tree and span at great speed a few more times until it came to stop in the middle of the road, missing all the parked cars.  Part of the car were sprayed over the road and in peoples driveways.  Dad was very forgiving, never once saying I told you so.  Anyway I tell you this story because it took a year for me to rebuild the car and I never realised that one of the front wings was slightly bowed until it was on the road.  Boy did it annoy me, every time I looked at.  So back to the Healey, I am sure that if I left it as it is now and finished it the car would look good.  However, I would notice the differences in the lines along the side every time I walk up to it and I can't possibly progress from here knowing that it is not as good as it could be.  So wings and doors off and some enjoyable hours looking, thinking and procrastinating; oh the joy.

I Started by looking at the shroud and managed with some gentle clubbing to get the front nearside a little further over to match the offside.  I then started looking at how the shroud sat on the bulkhead and began to feel that the bulkhead is slightly off from being perpendicular to the chassis and therefore sending the shroud to one side at the front.  I checked the measurements that I could make but they seemed to say that it was square.  I spent some hours cursing myself for welding up the nearside A post a few months back and then decided to have a look at what I could do.  I noticed that the line of top bulkhead panel was slightly off central and decided that as the shroud fits to that that this is where I should start.  I spent some hours trying to coax it across, back, forwards etc until I felt comfortable that I had mad a difference.  Now to fit the thing back up and have a look but it was beer time so I will do that tomorrow.