its been about a week since i last posted on here, I'm sorry about that but have got loads to blog about so lets get started.
OK so i started to get the wheels off and stripping down her running gear and i was surprised even tho she has been sitting since the 80's at least, she still had plenty of old grease and grim protecting all the moving parts behind the wheels, even to the point of still having dot4 in all the hoses and the rubber hose had stood up well to the time sitting about so striping her down really wasn't that hard and i didn't come across many hard parts.
i also poped the clocks that i striped apart up to my dads for an over haul and they have come back looking very nice indeed, i will post the photos of this in a bit for you to take a look at, also Ive started to strip the old paint off, now this is where loads of my UN-usefal in site comes in to the mix, as i was taking the paint of i found that the car has been many many different shades of happy, Ive found light blue, darker blue, dark red, orange and the yellow that's on it at the moment ooo and i found that the dash was a lovely shade of pink at some point in its life, as i was sitting there for all the hours i spent sanding i began to think of how many and what type of ppl might have owned this car before the 80's, i mean it was still 20 years old by the time kats mum got it so there must have been some history to it that no one will ever really know about, it went thru one of the most iconic eras this planet has ever known, with flower power, lsd, acid, hippys, road trips, mods, rockers and im shore im missing a hole lot more but that's just some.
man this car must have seen some really good times in its 1st 20 years of life and it made it thru them all, had its coat changed to suit some each person who owned it and and it has made it to 55 years after it was born, allot of people would and do think im a bit crazy for not just scraping this car, i mean the 1st time i hooked eyes on it, it was looking very sorry for its self, sagging in the middle, no windows no engine, front missing, holes and cracks every ware, chassis was just rust dust, front window supports snapped, and weeds growing all around it, and to top it off some one had randomly dumped fibreglass from a loft all over the front, but i see it different to 99% of others and i think i would have been crazy to let her be scraped, this car has come a very long way in the last 55 years and I'm not about to just let her and her 1000s of memory's die with her, its not about the time she will take to be back on her feet that is the dominating fact in this build its the amount of time that i am willing to give bring her back to life that is, and i have got allot to give.
with every inch sanded on the body new history was being discovered, stress crack, brakes, bodge job repairs and endless filler and at the same time new history and memory's where being made for me and my little family, my girls wont forget the little car daddy spent years rebuilding and they wont for get the hours they spent helping and watching, this little car is not only fixing the life it had but its making unforgettable moments for others.
Ive also had some luck in finding a very nice guy from the owners club who had all-ready done a full chassis rebuild on his t60 who had all the plans that he kindly sent me ver email, (thanks buddy if your reading this), so here is the photos of the clocks i promised to post for you at the top of this blog.
the outer basal of the clocks are in the to be chromed box but once its all finished and rebuilt it will look as good as new im shore,
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