Since my last post I spent a happy couple of hours last weekend cleaning the gearbox with petrol and a brush, it came up wonderfully but like a sausage I forgot to take a photo before I put it into storage at my Mother-in-Laws.

Today I had a whole day in the garage so I dragged the car outside again to take a look at it.  I decided that the near-side is too high so got out a strap and tightened it to a pole clamped to the trailer to pull it down and I felt it looked better, at least the headlights looked level.

So I'm looking at it and thinking to myself that if I could get it to stay there I'd be happier.  If I could get it to stay at that height and shift the front slightly to the right I'd be happy.  So I start looking at the car in detail and realised that I could possibly use the return for the bonnet aperture but failed to secure it in the same place with mole grips and started to think that there must be more to it than this. I make a coffee and sit and stare at it.  I glance at the old original frame that I have under the green sheet to the right of the car and notice the bit of metal at the front that connects to the bottom of the shroud and suddenly feel excited.

On inspection I realise that the metal would have been strong enough 60 years ago to hold the shroud in place and feel like I have had a Eureka moment.  With those inplace I can definitely move the shroud around before adding the wings etc.  I had always thought that I would make some brackets out of thin steel t weld on at the latter stages, it had never occurred to me that I might need them for positioning.  So I set about making some brackets for the frame which I again forgot to photo, think I was too excited to think straight.  I did take a photo of the chassis legs having stripped the galvanised coating off and painted with weld through primer.

The fitting will have to wait until another day though, hopefully not too far away.....