Replacing the sheet metal below the battery tray

As I've mentioned before the sheet metal beneath the battery tray was in pretty bad condition.

This section is made up of sheet metal from the inner fender as well as the front assembly, lying on top of eachother which makes it rather cumbersome to repair.

With the time and money constraints I have we therefore went another route and cut out the rotten metal with the fender and the front assembly still in the car.

This meant that we couldn't do a perfect job but for the time being it is quite adequate. My intentions are to replace or repair this properly when I do a frame-off restoration of the car in 5-7 years time.

Engine assembly

The assembly of the engine is coming along nicely. I got one of the valve covers painted and although I wasn't sure about it at first, I like it more and more now.

There's also been a lot of stuff painted and "chromed" the past days (just click on through the images from the one I linked).

I will still need to touch up some of the paintwork as it got scratched during re-assembly, no matter how careful I (thought) I was.