Where to start today? i think ill start by saying getting your steering wheel refurbished is an expensive thing to do when you have a car that not many people have restored, i was quoted £225 pounds as the mold would have to be made 1st but if he had a mold it would be £150 pounds so i have decided that im not going to use the steering wheel that it was sent of the production line with, im now going to get my self a removable momo wheel, witch will also help with security of the car when im not in it, the thing is that the t60 was never the most UN-stealable car in the world, i mean there's no outer handles so there was a gap left out of the window so you could reach in and undo the door once in there was no steering locks or gear lever locks, you could just reach under the dash and get access to the barrel, not that you would need it, im guessing that a screwdriver and a sharp fast nudge would turn it on and your away, so in this day and age i think the momo would be a safer one to use.
Right here we have 1 box containing 1 1958 t60 chassis ready to be sent to the local scrap yard, there is sssoooo much water logged rust in this thing its pretty heavy really, i promised to put a photo up so here it is in all is brown glory.
I was going to use a company to refurbish my clocks but after finding out how much the steering wheel was going to be i decided to take a look and see if i can do it my self, as i started to get the clocks out the glass front and the surround just fell off in my hand reveling a pretty good looking clock face, but there was ample amounts of rust all around it and the hole of the housing was covered in rust so i was not feeling very hopeful, i got it in doors and got my tools out, looking at all the nuts and screws i was expecting to have a very hard time stripping it, but to my suprize they all cam off as if they where new, as i eased the clock out of the housing rust dust went everywhere but the mec inside was as clean as a whistle, i gave the rear wheel a spin and all was well so its not going to be a hard job getting it back to a nice state, just wire brush and repaint the housing remake one bracket clean the glass and send the surround off to the chromer with all the other little bits and then rebuild it, well chuffed.
Did not have a chance to upload this lot last night as it got to dark to take photos but i get out there today and updated my photo album and here they are, starting with the top one, we got the roof off the 1st day it arrived, the plan was to do a roof chop and lose about 5-6inchs off the center but the person that owned this before many many years ago had fiber glassed the roof on and smoothed all the edges, i would like to say know that i don't no why he done this but im afraid i do know, its gave it a sleek smooth look and left everything with nice round edges, but him doing this did mean that we couldn't really save the roof, it already had allot of cracks and brakes due to its being moved around and the sagging of the punt and the years of weather torment so it has to go but all is well as i found some one that makes all the fiberglass body parts (
CASCU) roof is only £120 pounds so its not a bank braker and it means we are going to have a nice new roof to play with so as soon as the rest of the body is made sound i will be investing in a new one.
Photos 2-3-4 are all of the top of the punt and the inside as a hole, well what to say about this, doors are pretty sound and the rear seats are as hard as nails, and the punt/base has no signs of cracking/braking be leave it or not it seems it fared up very well thru the move and i think the water logging might have helped with this as if the punt was bone dry i think we would have seen big bends and cracks running right thru the center, i have plans for the inside witch include door cards with a custom Berkeley logo embroidered in the corners or one on the center of the rear seat board not 100% shore on where but it will be done to a very hi-grade as a very good friend of my has been doing seat upholstery for 30 years now and has already doe some amazing work with motorbike seats, camper vans, boats well he has covered more seats than even he can remember, and im lucky to have him as a friend, we will be doing the hole inside so watch out on here for that on, (his details will all be at the bottom of this blog if you did what to check out what he can do)
custom logo as stated above, now i dident like the berkeley logo and seeing as its only realy going to be 50% berkeley and 50% somthing sweet i dident feel right using it so i spent a bit of time on photo shop and re designed the logo to suit the car but dident want to lose the 60s look and feel so i based it on the known logo, i just wanted to add my twist on it the same as i will be adding to the car its self, i dont think ive done a bad job with this one tbh.
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