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Good luck and crossed fingers for today!

I'm that excited I've had to cross everything or I'll pee myself.

More later...

Good luck today, you'll soon be enjoying the open road!

Looks completely different with all the bits on, have a good day.

Looks great - good luck with the MOT!

Love the interior finish - best of luck with the MOT. I imagine you'll be posting very late tonight if you get a pass after driving it all evening!

Looking good in silver
Well done mate, now enjoy it

Best of Luck Towed (although that shouldn,t come into it) , Im rooting for you, Pops

The man from the MOT station he say...





Failed

I could kick myself, it failed on a couple of cheap parts that I reused from the donor - a leaky rear brake cylinder and a split steering rack gaiter. Both items were inspected before fitting, but that was nearly two years ago and I guess they've both failed during the build process.

Oh well, will be placing an order for the parts needed and should get a pass certificate next week. Until then, I hope you like the pictures of the (nearly) finished article.

Never mind, did you have a good drive, getting there? Silver looks really good, is the grill white?

Bravo! Towed bravo!

Don't worry about the MOT minor issue easily resolved, love the finished job, not so sure about how many rear view mirrors you need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Given me inspiration to get back into the garage

Well done that man easy fixes in both time and money so all good really

Cor, that looks great. I particularly like the front detailing. You've achieved that "developed on track" look. Brilliant.

a great job ...i was thinking about u mate to day ... easy fix classic car show at week end not far from us if u up and running.. a great looking car top job

Thanks guys, parts now ordered so should be fitted within a week.

Grille is white and mirrors are quite useful to see what's behind you.

Drive to MOT station was seven miles on a main road. Rather blustery at 60mph - need to drop the seat a little - but quite a thrill.

It got rather a lot of admiring looks including from a chap in a new Aston Martin who did a double take as we passed by each other. From the look on his face I reckon he's kicking himself for blowing enough to buy a modest house on a new Aston when he could have had one of these and trousered over a hundred and twenty grand change.

It runs very smoothly and tracks and stops arrow straight. Even the notoriously weak Triumph handbrake passed the G test (just). The speedo seems to be reading accurately as it read pretty much at the speed limits as I drove in traffic (forgot my sat nav as I was going to check it) but the tachometer is useless. The needle just points randomly round the dial wavering about, at one point it was showing 7,000 rpm at 50mph in fourth.

Looking forward to giving it a proper shake down next week...

No worries then Towed simple fixes huh,
Question what do i see by your nearside mirror?
Pops

Only two minor fixes.

I'd think that was a brilliant result. Congrats.

Mr T - Hard luck on the MOT fail.

But as you say, just two fixes and you are good to go.

And the plus side is that the car looks absolutely fantastic!!!



Good luck, Paul.

Thanks for the support everyone. The thingy next to the nearside mirror is a shark fin aerial. Bit of an unnecessary frippery at the moment as 1/ rather surprisingly the car didn't actually break down so I didn't need anything to listen to at the roadside whilst waiting for the RAC (but I made sure I had my membership card and a fully charged mobile phone anyway), and 2/ the wireless doesn't seem to be working, it lights up but isn't sending any sound to the speakers. I guess I've dislodged a connection while fitting it. It's on my 'to do' list together with finishing off flatting and polishing the paintwork and setting up the engine properly.

I am pleased with the way it looks though.

A couple of minors Mr T, you'll soon put those right and the good thing is you now know the rest is as good as it looks. Can't wait to see it in the flesh!

Congratulations Mister T !

Very good job. The colour is very nice.

I'm fond of your tripod Headlamps .

Thanks Zebre, I'm as pleased as a dog with two tails.

Headlamps are P700 replicas using modern bulbs, also available for left hand drive applications -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PAIR-Halogen-Headlight-P700-Tripod-MG-Jaguar-Morris-Riley-Cobra-Triumph-Mini-LHD-/111110707615?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item19deb6d99f

I'm watching progress on your Sammio Deux Chevaux Vapeur with interest. Do you have a date when you hope to finish?

I've found tripod headlights P700 in France. Thanks for the link.

I would like to give the car at my bodybluilder at the end of this summer or the beginning of autumn. I Have pojected to finish the steal part this month.

wow looks great! and the weather is going to be great as well. enjoy the sunshine on the country lanes.