Fri.11.08.06. Chris had made an early start in an attempt to iron out all of the ‘snags on the car. We are very close to signing off all of the body panels and dispatching them to ‘Young Danny the Paint’. Extra fine tuning was required under the rear wheel arches together with some residual levelling work to the offside front wing. Moreover, every panel has been double checked against each other to ensure that the lines flow smoothly and continuously.
It has been quite an odd day in that although we both comprehend that all the body parts are completely finished the concerns we have encountered over the past three months have made it difficult to internalise that we have eventually, indisputably arrived at the end of this particular passage in the Burlington’s development.
The extensive modifications have included, the colossal complexities of fitting the screen, the poor quality of the original fibreglass moulds resulting in wavy irregular wing panels, the re-cutting of the headlights sockets which now means that they function properly, the raising of the bonnet profile, now concave and not convex, the removal of the external boot trim to create a gentle curved edge, the bonding and strengthening of the scuttle top to the central body tub, the re-alignment of both the front and rear wings, the re-modelling of the nose cone to accommodate the fresh line of the bonnet, the refinement of the engine panel joint to the body tub which eliminates all the original aluminium extrusions and finally, the continuous examination and monitoring of the correct, complementary and significant lines of the total image.
The on going deliberations, although challenging, have produced a wonderful, genuinely stunning, sexy body.
All the disappointments, mistakes, frustrations and ‘tete dust’ are now behind us, so we shall move on, open a tin of chunks and have two extra spoonfuls of evap milk. Perhaps the Beaujolais run may still be feasible?
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