It was sunny in North London today so I got the car out and started measuring.  I decided to take off the wings and shroud so that I could weld the bulkhead top panel back on.  Once done I put it all back  again.

When I look at it from afar the car looks reasonably ok, there are no massive issues and if it was all painted in a lovely shiny Healey Blue colour then I am confident it would look great.  The wheels are vertically aligned which is great news.  The near side shape is still out though and I think I can improve on it so I am going to have a go.  I will need to borrow an old slide puller from my panel beater friend Rob and hopefully I can do that in the next week or two.  Will keep you posted.

I managed to visit John last week and collect a new shock, well a refurbished one that is.

I enjoyed talking with John and as usual learnt a lot about the workings of shock absorbers.  In the second photo it is easy to see the extra length of the arms on the suspect item.  Apparently it isn't an MGB one though.  Anyway, back on the car and the wheels look to have much better vertical alignment although as it was raining I was unable to take the car out of the garage, maybe tomorrow.