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I also just got home from a quick lunch time scooter strop to the hospice shop. That's the red rear seat base and the stained front seat base fixed for $9.

Bonus pictures:

It was a few hours of work, but it did drive out of the shed. I had to pull the hard line back out and re-make one of the flare connections. IT IS SO NICE TO DRIVE NOW 😁 The engine runs miles nicer since having the timing tickled up, new fuel pump, leads etc. It pulls beautifully smoothly. The transmission works, like straight away, like it should, like IOL. The last major piece of the puzzle is the little rust repairs. I wasn't sure on the order of events between the VIN guys, the panel beater, and the repair certifier (if required - probably). So I drove it to my panel beater, who told me he wouldn't touch it until the repair certifier had seen it, otherwise they think you are trying to hide things and come down hard on it. So I talked to the repair certifier, who told me to start with the VIN guys, because if they find something they want the repair certifier to look at after the fact, then I'll have to pay him twice. So I went to the VIN guys, who said yeah best to bring it in pre-repairs and see what they think it needs. Almost by accident, its now booked in for its VIN check inspection TOMORROW and is still seeming so far from finished. I'm going to write them a list of the things that I know it still needs, just so they can see I'm not being totally useless and clueless about what is and isn't OK. For example, I don't want them to look at the missing bolt on the seat that I clearly just installed and go "OK what else has he half arsed", they can see it on my list and go "OK he was a bolt short and has it on his to-do list". I did decide that it needed to be a little more complete than it was, and that its finally time to install the carpet. I had been putting this off for fear of getting it dirty while working on other things. But now its in there, and it makes it feel like much less of a project car!

I'll send you a copy for xmas

I'm curious about the Anglia that beat you!?

I took another day off yesterday to finish getting this thing together. I started the day by making up the new hard lines for the transmission, installing the radiator and the new hoses. It was a bit of a session of archaeological discovery. The lower radiator hose that was on it was a real bastardized thing with a joiner in the middle of it, and the hard lines for the transmission had been cut and joined with rubber hoses and 11 (!!) hose clamps holding it together, eleven of them!! The upper radiator mounting clamp was bent, and always annoyed me, so I whipped it off and straightened it. Then it didn't fit any more Aha! Its not the original radiator! Obviously in the past someone has had to replace it, and found one that is similar but not quite the same. This also explains why there is no fan shroud, cos the shroud on the radiator probably didn't fit the car, and the shroud on the car probably didn't fit the radiator. The mounts have all just been bent till they fit, the transmission lines have been joined to the 2 inches of remaining line that came with the radiator when it was cut out of some other car etc. So I re-bent the mount, which has of course made it look worse than it did before. And my new radiator hose doesn't quite fit 100%, but it fits 90% so it will do for the short term, its just a little more stressed than I would like. Hard lines are made and installed: All the ancilliaries, carb etc are back on. It fired up beautifully with the new fuel pump. I managed to get 9 of the 11 litres into the transmission before one of the new flare connections started to leak But of course it was tucked in behind the hot exhaust so I couldn't tighten it up. Hopefully, its only about a half hours work away from being able to drive out of the shed now!

I took the day off work today so dad and I could put things back together. I found a burnt wire in the engine loom that had melted its way out of the loom. It was disconnected at both ends but always worried me that it might have damaged other wires in the loom. So I started the day by stripping it out and re-wrapping the loom. It’s nice and tidy and I have peace of mind now. The engine and trans went in with no drama, welded the exhaust back together where I had to cut it, hood back on and a few other small jobs ticked off. Its starting to look like a car again! I also found a huge rats nest in the heater box, just by chance as the fan resistor block fell off while I was taping the loom and revealed a mess of carpet underlay and grassy shit.

Great intel thanks guys, I'm in largely the same situation with my Austin 7.

We lived down there in Stoke for a couple of years. Loved Stoke as it was equally handy to Richmond and to Nelson, its also an easy run into Tahunanui without having to get stuck in Rocks Road traffic. One of my good mates is in Atawhai, I never understood the appeal. Its also about as far away from Brightwater as you can be and still claim you live in Nelson (Edit: perhaps thats the appeal )

pffft, who needs an expensive long euro-plate to fill the gap.

Route notes and ride details have just been emailed out to everyone who has filled in the form.

What was the end result here? Did you find accommodation or are you sitting it out? Also I've ended up with 2 spare beds in Awakino if anyone needs them.

The modified swing arm is coming together. It’s taken some mega stuffing about to get it square but I think it’s there now. still a huge amount left to do and only a week before the king country crusade!

3D printed a dash insert for an old Honda chaly(?) headlight bucket. Eventually this will hold a 2” gps speedo but for now I’ve made an inset for the insert to plug the hole.