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Very nice!

Uncle Fred's just being friendly.....

C'mon Chris, I thought you'd be making your own.

Set of these then?

Looking good. I was wondering how you were getting on. The bumpers have transformed the look of the car. Well worth doing.

Thanks for the comments guys. The original colour was " willow green" according to records and is still visible in places. Unfortunately this is a rather pasty and undesireable green hence the respray in what i' m assuming is signal red at some point in the 90's. Colour is going to be a difficult decission but some way off yet. I'll just be happy to see it in primer!

That I did and very nearly bought another one instead of the e type. They seem to be creaping up in price at the moment and a late one was just a bit more than I wanted to spend. Without doubt a great car. Feel free to pm me.

Shame that but as someone said, cheap for a reason. Save up and get the Merc you want.

As above so that the body can be rotated through 360 degrees. As regards lifting, I thought you had to watch your back but as an extra pair of hands to position things I may just take you up on that

Cheers Chris, really appreciate that. As regards "maybe I could be credited with helping to purchase a new valve cap " This is what you've actually bought.......x3 (pen for scale) They hold the ball and socket joints together on the wipers and cost £12.00 each!!!!. So whenever I (eventually) turn on the wipers I will think of you

The annoying thing is that I sat down and tried to realistically budget for each part of the restoration but it's the unforeseen that catches you out. Example being the electrics. I had set aside £1000 for that but having removed the 40 + year old loom it looks like that is going to need replacing at an extra £700. Lesson learnt is don't begin to budget until it's all stripped down. I'll be happy when the body is all stripped repaired and primed. I have to be honest and say that sometimes I look and think I'm in over my head. I wonder if Keyser ever opens the Zed Shed door and thinks that. I doubt it. Keep calm and carry on!

So bit of a progress report. Every time I see " Update" in Keyser's posts I feel ashamed of the lack of progress on mine. The bonnet on an E type makes up almost half the car and is made up of 36 separate parts either bonded together or fixed with any one of the 511 nuts, bolts, screws and spltpins. They were made longer than required and then cut down to size where they meet the bulkhead to fit each individual car. They were then adjusted using various shims, behind the hinges so they line up with the sills and bulkhead. Imagine buying a bonnet from Alex and being given a big bag of spacers and told you'll have to cut it down to make it fit! Whats more a replacement bonnet will set you back in excess of £5k. Fortunately my bonnet seems to be in good condition with I suspect the outer wings being replaced at some point.. The downside is that the panel gaps were terrible. So after three weekends taking it off and putting it back on, It now fits as it should. Then to take it all apart for blasting, dipping repairing where nec. and etch priming, something way beyond my capabilities so it's going to a specialist. I just hope I can put it back together. The next picture may not seem much but trust me getting there was a PITA. You can see the shims. Now, I did a huge amount of research on these cars, looked at quite a few, joined a forum etc and one of the buying bits of advice was " beware of patches welded or riveted over the rear parts of the floors that hide a multitude of sins and are disguised by underseal from below". So in effect you've still got a solid MOT worthy floor that looks good from underneath, but it's a bodge up covering more rust. The dilema is how do you say to a prospective seller, excuse me,can I just rip out your seats and carpets and trim to have a look at the floor........ you can't. You've guessed, I removed all the seats, trim and sound deadening to find just such a bodge Fortunately and I say that with everything crossed, this is the only real issue but i will reserve judgement until the body and the bonnet are blasted back to bare metal. New floors and old floors Dismantling the bonnet The next job is to dismantle the space frame at the front, just leaving the body tub. I then need to build a "rotisserie" out of 4x4 box section that bolts to the body and will allow me to rotate the body around a central axis to work on the underside, I've bought the steel, it's just a matter of fabricating it. ( a job in itself ) Then we can tackle the floors The good news is that i found nearly $3.00 dollars in change under the trim and Keyser has bought some bits off me so all I need to do is sell a kidney to continue the project.

Ha, good question. Bit of progress if you can call cutting the floors out progress. Will do a bit of an update with some pics after work.

Sold to Keyser! He just beat you to it samsniss.

Forgotten how many bits I'd collected. I blame Coldel for all his "spotted on e bay" posts Anyway up for grabs is: A good 350z original 6 speed gear knob, (used) Slim profile Aero wipers front and rear still in boxes, ( so 3 of NEW ) Rear tow eye cover in Azure, (used) Drivers door window switches,(used) OEM air intake scoop that attaches to the front panel.(used) I don't really want to split them up with the hassle of packing and postage so someone can have the lot for £35.00 plus postage which I cant see being more than £10 recorded. More pics or info by request.

There's a guy on here recently who completely reworked his plenum machining the inside and smoothing it out plus pics but I can't find it. Very impressive though.

No before pics sorry... just imagine a whole load of white spots on the bumper. The kit came with scratch cleaner, paint, lacquer and polish, but all i used was the paint, applied with a cotton bud. The colour match is great but up close you can obviously tell where it's been done - but ive achieved my aim which was to disguise all the white spots from 1 meter away. The front's come up great Chris, without the hassle of having it re sprayed. Super job.

Very nice

Does it have to be new or good secondhand?

Have a look on here Chris loads of info on maintenance and what to look for. http://www.rangerovers.net/rrmkiiiremedies.html

Does look good!

Not from Columbia is it and they're just waiting until it's safe to collect it?

I'm in the middle of cutting the whole floor out of mine

Get your mail re directed just in case, just get the form from the Post Office.

Brilliant