I'm declaring the garage finished! While this is never the case, as there is always room for improvement, the major work is complete.

Here's roughly how it looked before we started:

Here's the best comparison I could find for the outside view. Apparently we did not take a picture once everything was …

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Steadily working on the donor parts, but days are a bit slow lately. Finishing the details of the garage takes its time as well. After treating the first donor parts, I'm not completely satisfied with the finish that por15 plus the chassiscoat leaves.

The por15 itself is very nice, glossy and very smooth, so …

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Ok, got a new tool which burned another hole in the wallet. Blind rivets are the things which come pre-installed for the chassis plate and the pre-drilled positions for the T-pieces in the brake-lines.

It's not trivial to make a good rivet I found out. The first thing you have to get right is the amount of …

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Unable to set a good time-slot apart for the treatment of the donor parts, it needs like a 6 hours slot for all the painting and cleaning, but eager to do something, i started to do some chores on the chassis.

I started with putting all nuts and bolts from the chassis kit loosely in place. This is to see if i got …

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Went to speedon yesterday to fetch the chassis and the assorted bits needed to help me construct a rolling chassis.

I should probably stick to the proper order and first finish revising all the jaguar bits, but it's very tempting to start putting things on the chassis. M.u.s.t. r.e.s.i.s.t….

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