Gauges sent for restoration

The five dashboard gauges are sent to North Hollywood Speedometer for restoration. Their assessment to follow...

progress report March 2011

Handbrake and gear-lever back from platers and re-assembled. The base plates are still to be finished in black and the handle chromed. Door striker plates plated and re-assembled with new internal mechanisms.

The dash, gauges and wiper-mechanism are removed. The dash is stripped down and will be recovered. The gauges are boxed for now while I evaluate options. The wiper-mechanism is stripped and clearned and parts separated for plating and/or paint.

The pedal board has been re-assembled: satin black finish over sanded and treated wood (still in great condition). The pedals are sent to California to be professionally refurbished.

The shell is not almost bare inside - except for a day's work to chip away at the remaining sound deadening.

More pre-plating

This time the handbrake, gearshift and striker plates. All will be zinc plated except the gear-stick itself that I'll have chromed. Lots of fiddley small bits with this batch.

Sunday at the garage

The strip-down continues. The interior is now part-removed: seats, belts, carpets and mats, handbrake, gear-lever etc. I've still to remove the sound-deadening material and the dash and instruments.

The doors are stamped with the last three digits of the chassis number - nice touch.

The car has an original Webasto heater - here's a photo prior to removal (...so, if ever I decide, I can remember how to put it back one day!)

Headlamps, complete

Brightwork parts prior to re-chroming and zinc plating

Door frames, rear quarters and miscellaneous bits and bobs, stripped to smallest component and photographed for an inventory prior to taking to the platers.

Removing rear bumpers and rear panel

Removing the rear bumpers and exhaust silencer.