after my 51 went i told myself to buy a complete car with an mot and already on the road,as another hassle resto just wasnt what i needed...i contemplated a trekker but couldnt find one,nearly bought a 63 but it wasnt og paint,so in a rush of excitment one sunday night i bought this...
decided i wanted a bit of the summertime again after having golf cabriolets a few years ago and wanted to feel the wind blow over my bald head...
first problem was she was in the west country and the day of delivery(august 8th)was about the wettest ever.i waited for hours and the expected time came and went,it transpires that the poor sods had been stuck doing 40-50mph the whole way due to poor conditions and it had taken them 8 hours and they still had a westy roof to drop off on there way back!considering it had been out in the rain for the hole day the ragtop hadnt leajed and the car was all nice and dry inside.
so what had i got for my money...well a near enough complete 59 garnet red ragtop with a very faded paint,quite a few holes and some bad modifications!
seems owen warlow had imported the car originally and then it was prepped in anticipaton of being a drag car(will get to there idea of prep later!)
to make myself feel better i thought id make the old girl look a bit better first(mainly to assure myself that it would),this involved removing the additional indicators and getting the tcut out and treating the paint to four coats then a further four coats of wax.the results were pretty good considering it was all done by hand and that the cars paint ressembled a dark shade of flat pink on arrival!
i then decided to remove the ropey 12v engine that the car came with
which will soon be replaced with...my recent ebay purchase
all the wings were then removed and i really got to see how bad things were...bad!
on inspection found rhs heater channel to be shot as well as front bulkhead,inner wings,rhs rear floor the list goes on!
whilst i tried to ignore the holes i got stuck into the wiring and changed somebody elses mods to put the wiring back to normal and managed to get the semaphores and most over electrical items to now work
i will add more bumph(i not quite up to last triumphs level)but few other bits briefly done have been,replacing door handle/fitting new hood release/fixing bootlid/removig grease from bootlid.fitting 6v starter motor/and more i cant remember
as we speak car is in the gargage and has had the body removed from floorplan,new floor sections are already in as well as heater channel and footwell sectons(will add pics 2mrw)
will keep this rolling when i have a bit more time