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January Catch-up: Glue, Paint and Springs

Note: I’ve been really ill for almost three weeks…and that, combined with the holidays and ongoing “life events” has meant not having had a lot of time to devote to the Morgan or just about anything else.

I did get the body glued together, painted and had a local spring shop repair one of the leaf springs.

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My Feet Aren’t Even That Big

The worst part of driving this car home (aside from the sheer terror as I realized what a rolling wreck it was), was that I absolutely could not get my foot past the brake pedal to the accelerator, and vice-versa. It was worse than no brakes, really. Today I decided to fix that problem with what seems to be an effective, if Frankensteinian, bodge.

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Door #1

This door frame is done, with only a couple of very minor glitches. Fits pretty well, though I need to rebuild the hinges…at $75 each, not really excited at the prospect of new ones.

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Doors

So, the above incomplete door frame has taken me probably 20 hours to get to where I am. It’s really fiddly. I think the remainder of the other door, which needs the armrest and bottom pieces cut, fit, and then shaped, will probably go a bit faster.

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Angling

Not a lot of progress recently, just lots of time spent on things outside of Rusty Keep. But I got a little time to work on the frame…and discovered my angle at the front was R-O-N-G…by a degree. Mind, if you just put the sill board on, I had the right angle. But put the whole tub on the chassis, and it’s off. 19 degrees, not 20.

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