New Dash

Removed the old cracked dodgy wooden dashboard, made a new one from MDF and covered with vinyl.
Managed to find an old Smiths tacho on trademe for $80 and replaced the el-cheapo boy racer style one!
Looks a lot nicer than the original.

Sump

Sump had been at Fraser cars, Scott did a great job of modifying it and altering the pickup.
Its now about 40mm shallower which will stop it bottoming out.

How it was

Got it on 7.2.08 it looked like this.
Had to have it freighted to a little place the other side of Morrinsville.
I drove it home with no WOF or Reg, no cert! and very little fuel. On the way home it hailed and was freezing, then ran out of gas about 10km from home!   When I got it home, I noticed a huge puddle of oil in the driveway! it had holes it sump just as I pulled off the road onto my driveway!
Not a great start.
 

Lots of things to do....
New bonnet obviously, new wheels, new nose, new front guards, new dash, new seatbelts, new windscreen, new paint...........
Will be keeping me busy for the next year or so!

First Post

First post, I will be detailing the upcoming rebuild of my Lotus 7 replica.
From a run down wreck to something of note :)