Been a little quiet on here the last few months, been getting absolutely raped at work.
Anyway, there has been a slight change in direction with the build. The original plan of doing the conversion and cleaning it up a little has now turned into a full bare metal resto. The car has just been through Imperial Blasting at Cardiff and is now down on the central coast at Charmhaven Custom Paint & Panel where it will be until early next year. Plan now is to go with the Calais look (not badging it as one as I’m a little funny about that) with a dark silver over lighter silver of some sort. Just picked up the bonnet from Showtime Garage in Warners Bay where it got a custom sheet metal 3″ reverse cowl, The boys there blew my expectations out of the water, they went to town on the bonnet cleaning and boxing everything up, it is amazing. Only depressing thing is that I’m about to go away again with work until may/june, which means I cant rip into it until then. It’s safe to say I have pulled the pin on having a budget now.