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TO BE COMMITTED TO GREAT BIN IN THE SKY
Hood, windscreen and surround, heater, wipers, seats, dashboard,complete wiring loom, front brakes, roll bar, pedal box, petrol tank, seat belts, sidescreens, column switches, and all the existing
Alpha instruments.
IMPROVEMENTS TO BE IMPLEMENTED
New seating, new petrol tank, new front brakes, new wiring loom,
`tonneau cover, new dashboard, reposition spare wheel in the boot, fit removable steering wheel, fit radar detector, new headlights, new seat belts, fit new column switches, reversing light and new gear knob.
Well looking at the list you can see that I was in for a right load of workwhich I started later that same day.
The first day was spent digging thingy out from under a three seater settee, two ladders resting across the roll bar and the top of the windscreen, two Volvo front seats and a matching back seat, three boxes of various car "spares" acquired over the previous seven years. After I'd cleared that little lot I get to admire eighty months worth of slimy dank dust and grime which gives not the slightest hint of thingy's potential. In fact it looks downright disgusting.
After giving it my all, washing and cleaning the machines exterior, I notice something that hadn't been there the last time I'd used it (September 1992). The fibreglass bonnet had succumbed to the weight of all the aforementioned items and now looked ever so slightly the worse for wear, it had cracked. Well it is fibreglass and the appearance of the bonnet will not prevent it passing the MOT. With this in mind I check out the brakes - not seized, and then the chassis which looks exactly the same as it did seven years before. The most consitantly unreliable part of thingy looked serviceable too -the exhaust amazing. I remember thinking to myself, piece of cake, be on the road in no time, how little did I know……………….
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