Ed the Herald

 Still waiting for it to warm up a bit for painting been slowly working through small bits and pieces that need rust work.  Cleaned up the seat rails, dash mounts and a few other bits and pieces Ordered a pile of Citric Acid to try making some rust removal evaporust clone stuff as per this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYZmeReKKY sorted through my stuff and so far have noticed im missing the following 1 x Dash demister vent cover 1 x of the 3 Dash trim pieces most if not all the mounting body mounting plates i have a broken or mssing   and weirdly the wiper motor. I think thats been packed somewhere weird as i had it in the old house, it was inside so likely got packed up and put somewhere safe when we moved. 

  Been a productive month, managed to pull apart the doors and remove the quarterlights, stripped the paint off, and have been cleaning up a few odds and ends. Been slack on photos Turned the car around so i can get to the other sider easier Only photo i took was when i was getting rid of the old Toyota Ipsum i had  Checked over my gearbox and that looks fine, rebuilt the shifter mechanism, played around with rust treating a couple of smaller things like door components and the gearbox crossmember.  My son is doing mechanical engineering at school and one of the assessments they have is to make a shifter knob. They machine it with an M10 thread i had an old long shifter in my box which i gave to him and his teacher was ok with him shortening it and rethreading the stick with a M10 thread so i can use it. Which i think will be a nice touch for both him and i. In additional news the 1500cc engine i had my eye on fell through, but i do have have an engine its a very early 13...

 So its been a while, been almost a decade. Finally i have a house and space to work. Started stripping paint off, body is remarkedly good.  The paint was rough as, and im lucky its been undercover for the best part of 15 years It surprised me how rust free it is under all this. Bottom of the doors are holey but other than about 4 holes smalled than your little finger around the front arches i havent found anything at all.  Been on the hunt for a 1500cc engine, ive got old and like the sound of more torque over high revs :D helps that i have a DCOE 40 and a set of headers aside which will fit it.  Trying to decide what to do with the doors, i have skins, but honestly its not looking that bad. im considering paying a bloke to repair the bottoms and trying to sell the skins to recoup some money back. stripped 99% of the paint off the roof today and started tidying up the front end. Just leaves the passenger side guard, the boot lid, and both sills to strip. Then we can...