This is how we found her - just as John left it. The vast majority of parts have been itemised and carefully stored. No second guessing though - Johns labelling and record keeping leaves little doubt as to what went where and when it went there!

The engine has been reconditioned . John left the fuel tank and fuel pump dissconected- I assume as not to allow stale fuel to accumulate or attract moisture in the tank. Later we will show you his ingenous methods of starting this engine. All records are kept as to when it was last run and a full run down on the history of each cylinder and and valve. I suspect that John treated this car as one would treat any precision instrument- with the utmost of diligence!

The roof is sporting a weird two tone job as applied many years ago by John. Legend has it that earlier in the cars life John succumbed to some peer group pressure and painted the roof in this fashion as that was the thing to do. I suspect though that the truth lay in an attempt to keep the car a bit cooler and maybe cover up some of the thinning paint.

The Id tags were removed and stored away. Even the bits of card board holding the screws in place have been precision cut! At this stage I knew I was in for a treat. This chap was ultra thorough!

And here is the main engine bay tag. I have yet to sit down with my books and decipher all these codes- that 'X' is a curiosity

All the original sales documents have been displayed in a folder by John. These all came with the car so helps in keeping the picture complete.

The majority of the Chrome work has been faithfully restored to better than new as this grille shows.

(JANE PIC) this is some more chrome - the overiders...

(JANE PIC) ...and some bar chrome. The hubcaps and some other parts have also been done - but some is yet to be done like door handles etc.(unless we stumble across 'em some where in the boxes of bits!)