New Year

 For the reasons expanded upon in the first of this year's posts (& because it's been 'kin chilly), not much has happened in the garage, but there are stirrings.

This evening I've re-built the shocks ready to go back on the car & done something about the rear trailing arms. They pass under the axle to both connect to it & the rear shocks. this means they're not far from the road. Unlike the Panhard rod bracket, they move with the axle, so only hit the ground if for example a wheel drops off the paved surface into a gully. They have however got quite scraped up since they were painted only a year ago. So the solution was to make up a pair of titanium skid plates.

I've only done the first one as the other is still on the car, but it's bonded on with tiger seal & has four chicken rivets just in case. So next time a wheel drops off a kerb there could be an impressive shower of sparks.