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Cheers Tony, hadn't realised that the (optional) heater motor was wired through the fuel gauge.
Technically it's not wired through the guage, it takes a convenient 12v switched live feed from it!
I swapped my old fuse box for one and 8-way which takes modern blade fuses, but is also conveniently split 4+4 so I have a permanent live side and a switched live side!
That diagram is for the Vitesse 1600 model that didnt have the voltage stabilizer or temp gauge.
On the Mk1 2ltr
The heater motor needs to take a feed from the green wire before the stabilzer,not the light green and green that goes from the stabilizer to the temp and fuel gauge.
On my donor the heater motor was wired up with a length of cable tied along the outside of the loom. It looks like someone'd had a problem with it at some stage and bodged a fix. I'm thinking of using the redundant wiper motor wiring for the heater if the circuit is intact, or I might just create a new circuit for it.
I like the chequered flag graphics and the winged horse. I think I'd go with an Italian flag rather than the Union Flag though to carry off the continental illusion, but each to their own.
It was a sort of duelling riposte to your 'Olde Italian White?' snipe at my suggestion that an Italian flag might be a good idea. You know, the Sammio has Italian styling based on the Lancia D24 spyder, and you transposed the word Italian into Olde English White making it into the humerous yet teasing question 'Olde Italian White?', so I've taken the Lancia prefix off the D24 and inserted the English (Chinese?) 'MG' to imply a similarly unlikely fusion of different national identities, 'MG D24? It was supposed to be a sort of joke. I'm not terribly good at them and once you have to explain it to someone who can't keep up you've kind of lost your audience.
It was a sort of duelling riposte to your 'Olde Italian White?' snipe at my suggestion that an Italian flag might be a good idea. You know, the Sammio has Italian styling based on the Lancia D24 spyder, and you transposed the word Italian into Olde English White making it into the humerous yet teasing question 'Olde Italian White?', so I've taken the Lancia prefix off the D24 and inserted the English (Chinese?) 'MG' to imply a similarly unlikely fusion of different national identities, 'MG D24? It was supposed to be a sort of joke. I'm not terribly good at them and once you have to explain it to someone who can't keep up you've kind of lost your audience.
Toad I had the same problem with a joke last week (front air dam)
My wife is Italian hence suggested names for our G46 are a Charmarini or a Charmaratti
By the way I am loving the old English white and very impressed with how it turn out, Oh and the black wire wheels, the nuts!. Where's it going to live now it's finished in the Saloon!
Couple more pics.... I have started to flatten the paint with 1200 wet and dry and added a couple of decals. Got to do the final polish and shine, but it is coming out really nicely...
Sorry, but I'm loving it and so keep taking pictures! The missus thinks that I am obsessed!
Currently I am waiting on:
1. The seat backs and headrests are at the trimmers and expected back this week....(I said that last week I know! )
2. The radiator from a local company that is re-coring it as it had a hole or two in - it was the original rad so is 48 years old after all! They are upgrading it to more fins-per-inch so the cooling will be even better! They reckon early next week for that..
3. A new gearbox tunnel from Honeybourne mouldings - they have quoted 2-3 weeks so I will probably use the old knackered one for now!
4. Side graphics from Viatron - cheers for that Mac! Coming next week
5. Carb trumpets and inner rear wings from Gary - not a showstopper for now.
6. Finish trimming the centre tunnel once I have the gearbox tunnel in...
And that's it!
Ironically it is Taxed until the end of June and the MOT runs out on the 7 July! so as soon as I can get the things sorted I will be out - if the weather stays as nice as it has been today!
Funny I've been on the wrong end of the "O" word since buying a Spitfire.
At least you have a shiny car to show for it, not a house full of car parts!
I'm planning to put a small Union Jack on the either side of the bonnet, just above the latches.
My Triumph motorbike had them on its fairing & it is a nice touch.
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so as soon as I can get the things sorted I will be out - if the weather stays as nice as it has been today! 
