Bringing things up to date

Started this blog with the best intentions when I first started this project and then sort of got distracted by the car itself and never really continued it. As it's been so long this post is to fill in the gaps and bring it up to date with the position that the car is currently in.

Firstly when I went to collect the car it was impossible to move due to the brakes being seized. I started off by jacking up the front right corner, removing the pads, retracting the brake piston slightly and making sure the wheel would spin before rebuilding it and ensuring that it still turned. Luckily it turned out that this was the only wheel that was stuck and after inflating the flat tyre the car was finally out in the sunshine again for the first time in -as far as I can tell- 8 years!

So we hitched the car up to my Dad's Shogun and towed it the short distance home (the car was literally just down the road) and giving it a cleanup before inspecting the car more thoroughly.

These first set of pictures are from just getting the car home and before cleaning it

This next set of pictures are after cleaning it for the first time. The quality changes significantly due to the first set being taken on a camera phone and the second set being taken on a proper camera. Not sure why, think I was just too excited about getting the car to get the camera out at first.

First thing to do after cleaning the car up was to remove the awful wiring from the amplifier in the boot. For some reason all the electrical connections for this were only held together with tape and the main power lead was coming from the ignition switch instead of the battery for some reason. This was pulled out because firstly I didn't want the amp in there and secondly it was wired up in such a way it was a bit of a fire risk, same also went for the headunit which was removed and the wires temporarily taped up.

Next up is giving the interior a tidy up.