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Yea I agree, a few years back he owned two E Type Jags, one was a series one hardtop that was mostly finished, I did the wiring conversion for him, he did all the machining etc to make it RHD.  But he also had a series 1 convertible that was a total basket case.  I could have bought them both from him for $20k but at the time had no money

Yea I totally get that, nothing can replace those memories.  Funny how those older station wagons have become so cool.  All they need is to be lowered a little and they are cool as imo.  I have just always had this desire to have a small collection of usable cars to enjoy.  Once they are done, the Senator, MG and Kombi are almost all I want.  The other car I have always lusted after is a 64/5 Corvair, but that may have to wait. Then I sort of have a range of cars depending on the day/cruise whatever.  Cars are an addiction…

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by  VRSenator065.

So making a start on the brakes. Thought I would pull off and check, clean, paint and reassemble each wheel one at a time. Already learning a few MG specific things to know. But the left rear is almost done.  Have to say brakes have got to be about the least enjoyable and dirty part of a build. But they are kinda important!

Also spent a while fitting the running boards, and also removed the radiator cowl as it needed adjusting to get the bonnet fitting correctly.  As this car is close to 70 years old, and they were a hand made budget sports car, there is lots of varaibility in panel gaps et that apprently is justpart of the deal.

Yea its a lot of fun, lots of fiddly jobs to do, but slow and steady wins the race!

So turns out the there is a company called Moss in the UK who specializes in period MG parts etc.  So made up a bit of a list of some of the parts I need and they arrived today.  Never ceases to amaze me how bloody slow our postal service is, I regularly receive stuff from overseas in half the time Aust Post takes, hopeless.  But anyhow that gives me some stuff to press on with on the weekend.  Also off to my first Gawler Vintage Veteran and Classic Car Club meeting tonight to join up.  That’s the first step in getting it registered.

Now the Senators up and running I can turn my attention to this again.  I really love this little car, its just so awesome in so many ways.  Matt was over so I got a chance to putt it up on the hoist and bleed the brakes.  I had rebuilt the 4 corners just hadn’t had a chance to bleed it.  Bled up perfectly, and has a great brake pedal.  Pretty happy with that.

Put some new clean fuel in it, dash in the air cleaner and it fired up straight away, running absolutely sweet.  Had it up on the hoist and ran it through the gears, there looks to be some issue I reckon with the tail shaft.  So I think that might need removing and checking over.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  VRSenator065.

Got a lot done on the wiring, its hitting 40 out there today so might be the end of shed work.

Drive line issue turned out to be this tiny single bolt that literally is the rear trans mount.  Bit of a step down from the 454!!  Dug out the old service manual Dad gave me with the car, man I miss those days, the books a work of art!!  Took it for a sneaky little drive up the road by me and back, what a fantastic little thing to drive.  Already getting thumbs up from people going past.

Got the head lights, side lights, rear tail lights, and number plate lights working.  Looks like the brake pressure switch that activates the brake lights might be faulty, so I that’s got to come from the UK.  Also have fitted rear indicators,and they are all wired up and working.  I just need to sort some sort of indicator stitch.  These cars you sit so close to the steering wheel there is no room behind to put a normal style indicator stalk, so its something on the dash.

But good fun.