I spent the afternoon looking at the car from loads of different angles.  I started to question the back section of the car which I have largely ignored since putting it on in the first place.  The rear shroud does not have a uniform curve to it on the cockpit edge and there is a little split below one of the trim mounting holes.  When I push the shroud up the crack closes and the wings pulled together slightly.  This made me think that it is possible that the rear inner wings are slightly too far apart and that maybe I should working on that part of the car as it has a part to play on the lines of the car.  Then I remembered that fitting the rear shroud was really tricky and that I had to push the rear inner wings in to get it fit.  If I made it slightly more narrow on the rear, particularly on the offside then I would also achieve a better shape to the body.  Whilst looking at this area I trial fitted the panel that sits above the battery and supports the spare wheel only to remind myself that since I fitted the shroud it is now too wide to fit in place.  I then trial fitted the vertical panel that supports the shroud and sits on top of the spare tyre supporting panel and that took a lot of messing about to get it in place.  Only I can see that it won't fit with the  horizontal spare tyre panel in place.  None of the panels are accurate, I don't think that they are inaccurate either, its just that they all need adjusting.  Then it occurred to me that the whole of the back is built with these new panels and so the whole of it could be wrong. This is driving me mad so I decided that I needed some guidance on it and called Bell Classics as it is the closest classic car company to me.  I spoke with Andy there and he has offered to come and look at the car the week after next.  Phew.

I then took a look back through this blog to see what I'd written about fitting the rear bulkhead at the time.  I was rather horrified to see the car 18 months ago and to discover that I am  what feels like hardly any further forward since then.  I need to get a wriggle on with this.  Hopefully Andy will be able to give me some pointers to moving forward.