"What have we done?"

Dad's comment yesterday summed it all up "What have we done?" Hahaha. As you can see from this photo, we carried out some pretty drastic work to the car.

I dunno what Ben is doing with the light here. Starwars light sabres?

So yesterday was quite a productive day. My mate Danny came around to help Dad and I out. We got stuck into removing the body and interior. First up, one door was gone. 4 bolts and that's sorted..

Next up, seats..

It was probably a good thing we removed these. The seat mounts are not in great shape. Of course, it's always interesting to see what random stuff has made it's way under the seats over the years. We discovered a 1/4" socket (I wonder how long the previous owners searched for this?) and 3 South African Rand (about 35c Australian). Why could it not be some gold bar from South Africa?

Anyway, so after pulling out the seats and the doors, we attacked the windscreen. Attacked being the operative word here... inevitably we cracked it, despite being careful. Doesn't matter. It was an SA standard windscreen and needed to be replaced to meet Australian regulations anyway.

Next it was time for the body (commonly referred to as the Spider). Once we unscrewed a whole load of screws, it came off pretty easily.

Danny looks like he's having some serious fun here

These spiders are pretty flexible once they are off the car. We knocked up this rack to hold it firmly. The garage is filling with GT40 stuff again..

So all that's left now is a chassis, floor pan and dash. The random guy in the back is my mate Ben. He arrived from Townsville at about he time we were lifting the Spider off the car. As soon as he arrived he got in his work gear. Thanks Ben :)

What's going on with the engine?

Yesterday morning we also paid a visit to the machine shop. Before we left, I said to Dad "Do you think we'd better give him a call to make sure it's ready to pick up?". Dad's reply, "Nah, he's had it for months now, he'll be ready". Surprise, surprise, we rocked up and it still wasn't finished. The shop is run by an old guy, who's obviously an engine enthusiast, but not so enthusiastic about job cards, etc. So  the cam bearings have arrived, but they haven't got around to pressing them in yet. He said he'd do it Saturday arvo. We told him no hurry. We're certainly not ready for it yet anyway.

Dad also spent a few hours working on the crank journals yesterday. One more job done. Thanks Dad.

So next weekend, we should finish stripping this thing down and now it's time to start tidying it up and rebuilding it.