Friday, August 31, 2007

Spitfire MOT and The Shed

Been quite a successful day today as the Spitfire managed to sail it's way through another MOT, this time without any advisory notices. While this evening my next Triumph was delivered, in the form of a MkI 2000 saloon.

Affectionately know as "The Shed" the completed the Round Britain Reliability Run (RBRR) in 2006 and the 10 countries run in 2005. Unfortunately during the last RBRR the car had a run-in with a Deer, making a bit of a mess of the front end. The previous owner, Andy, had started work on the bodywork, but had not had time to complete replacement of panels.
The car comes with a spare complete front end, so the plan is to exchange panels as required to getting the car looking right again.
My plan for the next few days is to spend a bit of time going through the car deciding on what I will have to do to get it through a MOT, it may end up with me bodging panels for the short-term so I can get it on the road and replace panels as time allows me, allowing me to sell the Spitfire. Should be a couple of weeks?

For more history of The Shed why not have a look round Andy's website

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