Saving a Series I: Part 12

Excitement is high as the Series I is fully serviced and tuned, and on the final steps to hitting the road

Excitement is high in the workshop as the Series I is fully serviced and tuned – but isn’t some bodywork still missing?

If everything had gone as planned, this should really have been the final episode in the series. Instead, we’re a little behind, so it has become the penultimate one. This month we check through the mechanicals, hopefully getting to a point where the car is mechanically as good as it can be. That leaves us pretty much only the front wings, secondary wiring loom, tyres and hood to sort.

We left you last month having got the car started again and, somewhat carried away, we even had a drive around the farm in it. It was thrilling indeed to see it moving under its own power again, giving a hint of its new form. Having calmed down, it was time to concentrate again because we still had plenty of work to do – there were no fluids in the axles or swivels, we had that water leak from an engine core plug, and we didn’t even have a front propshaft on. Still, our numerous careful tootles were necessary to get useful, if brief feedback (and we’re sticking to that excuse!).

This month we start by having to take a step backwards to sort the leaking core plug above the flywheel, which means the bulkhead has to come off and be refitted, which will be the fourth time we’ve fitted it to the vehicle.