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. 

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