Sat.21.04.07. Chris has finished the assembly of the engine panels to the tub. He is glad to see the back of the tete dust but it is also wonderful to see the sweeping lines of the completed central body tub. The wooden interior gear stick console sections have been cut and constructed.
The dashboard has been altered to now sport ‘swept up’ ends, the final cavity to house the period timepiece has also been cut.
The pigs have arrived but quickly escaped through the electric fence. Having chased them around the woods for half an hour they were in due course, unceremoniously banged up in Southpork. Billy Green is running a book in the Oak to see how long it will be before they are rustled by the ‘Lower Ince Bandits’.
Fri.27.04.07. This has been a slow week. I travelled down in Cornwall for three days meeting Neil and Janet Harris; but also delivering some mattresses for ‘Brad’ (it seems that bridges have been built, much water has passed underneath, I’m being sucked in again; but that’s another story). But, even so, the work on the car has continued. Chris has started to polish the stainless steel brackets for the tilting windscreen. The steel is of such high quality that the end product looks brand new, ‘out of the box fresh’. The newly modelled cockpit panels are acceptable but need raised mouldings around the edges to be finished off properly. The base of the scuttle has been cut back by 5cms to accommodate the dashboard (but, alas, the corners need to be softened as the support bar is clearly visible on both edges).
More importantly, however, the pigs have survived the first week. They appear to have doubled in size, extremely content in their perfect surroundings. Fingers crossed they will endure yet another week in paradise.
The month has exposed the tardy attitude that we have inevitably slid into. We shall finish the project but with more of a whimper than a big bang.
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