May 29, 2019 – Final cleanup of interior rear side panels

Based on the results I had with re-gluing the fabric on the front door panels last week, I did the same thing with the rear interior side panels today. This is how they looked before I started – the fabric had pulled away from the structured foam: And after I gently peeled the fabric back […]

May 26, 2019 – Clock Repair!

Based on the good results with re-gluing the fabric on my passenger door panel 5 days earlier, I elected to do the same thing with the driver’s door panel. Came out just as nice as the passenger side (here is the picture of the passenger side – I’ll post one of the driver’s side along […]

May 20, 2019 – Passenger Door Panel Work (and a new link to my “picture gallery”)

While I wait for a replacement steering rack, I decided to start doing some interior detailing. Today’s project was to do a final bit of touchup work on the passenger door panel. When I first got the car, the interior was pretty dusty and needed a good cleaning. I took it all out and had […]

May 17, 2019 – Driver’s Window Mechanism Repair

My new brass window gears came in the mail this week so it was time to swap out the old plastic one that had cracked for a new brass gear: Here is the picture of the broken gear when it was still in the transmission: And the new brass replacement all greased up: And with […]

May 13, 2019 – LHM Leak! :-(

After driving the car 150km and leaving it parked for a day – I went to drive it again. I did a pre-drive check under the hood only to see a puddle of LHM under the steering rack right on top of the transaxle. 😦 The rack was rebuilt by David Hume concurrently with the […]

May 10, 2019 – Driver’s Side Window Diagnosis and First Real Drive

Today’s project was to figure out why the driver’s side electric window is binding up. I decided to start by pulling the motor out of the door. I found this excellent video that was posted a few days ago on YouTube covering the procedure! So, with my parts manual diagram in hand: I removed the […]

May 4 2019 – Final Assembly Day!

Time to put on the hood and other goodies that I just cleaned up. First I installed the brake cooling ducts: Next up was the lower valance which is aluminum and weighs almost nothing – really just for aerodynamics: Next up was the hood. Here it is before cleaning: With the blanket removed: The […]

End of April 2019 – Getting Ready For Road Testing!

After finishing up the engine bay earlier in the week, I took the car out of the garage with the intent of driving it up and down the driveway a bit. It was too much fun – I wound up driving it a couple of miles on the local roads. Got it into 3rd gear […]