Restoration Diary

21st November 2001 to 4th January 2002 

Firstly, happy new year to you all, hope you had a completely excessive festive season - I did!! Lots of happenings since the last update, which does seem like a lifetime ago. The chassis was completely stripped down in the last update, and since then it has spent two weeks up with Adrian Venn at Exactly TVR for a complete refurbishment. The result are stunning - all repaired and coated, looking as good, if not better, than new. The chassis is now stored up against the garage wall waiting for re-assembly. When we went to Coventry to pick up the chassis, we also took an entire trailer of other bits and pieces out of the garage for an opinion or for work to be done; the radiator has been left for re-coring, all the wishbones are being shot blasted and powder coated, the inlet manifold is being cleaned up, the carb is being checked over, one front upright was shot so will be replaced along with a trunion, and our anti-roll bar is being straightened and shortened. We also picked up a complete set of unleaded cylinder heads and a set of refurbished rear uprights complete with pivot bars.