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Latest pics from Nigel's emporium.

I don't like to gloat but the carbs on the 1.5L Sport are brand new

I don't suppose anyone has the missing ADV RET and throttle levers. I have the tubes but the levers are missing. A nice to have, but not essential so I'll probably do without.

More photos from John on the progress with the steering column. He's managed to marry a modern horn button to the bakelite disk that I found behind the door card.

Hi Colin, there are videos on YouTube on how to sew flutes but they all seem to make hard work of it. Back in my youth I used hesian backing and felt padding but nowadays I would use cotton wadding. Sew the leather to the hesian before using a couple of steel rules to push the wadding through. Caref...

It's been a bit quiet on here lately. Is everyone having login problems like me?

Here is the latest photo from Nigel showing new inner wheel arch in a sample colour.
and the repaired radiator surround from John ready for chroming.

Nice tonneau cover detail - and is the decal on the rear wing correct?

I was once told by a chrome plating shop that you can't plate over soft solder but I have recently used lead-free solder as 'filler' without any problem. I would still use silver solder for strength, though.

Nice picture of a 1.5 Litre Sports. Happy New Year everyone!

Yes, Happy Christmas everyone!

The hood frame drawings are in the Gallery. Go to Gallery and search for 'hood'.

On my 1935 car I had to make some adjustments - see the following altered drawings:

I finally managed to upload the schematic of the previous harness - it was 1 pixal too high! Feel free to add fuses/relays as you like but remember, left and right side lights must be separately fused and the purpose of a fuse is to protect the wire from short circuits which is difficult to achieve ...

Sadly, No. I did consider Ivory and sage green but in the end I decided that ivory and green are more suited to a small sports car whereas this Lagonda lookalike deserved something more sophisticated and I'm going for dark green (RAL6012). I'm hoping it will look as good as this: Lagonda rear lights...

Here is the latest progress on the body which is at Nigel's emporium getting it's first lick of paint.

I've done the same with some of my dials but I print onto waterproof self-adhesive labels using a laser printer and stick them on the back of the original dials. The waterproof labels are not suitable for inkjet printers.