Gasman

Just spoken with a recently retired guy in late 50's who left the trade in his 20's to pursue another career with better pay & a pension at end. He now works at a garage that sits out in the country about 7 miles from me & says this place has looked after a local GT6 since it was new, he delivers cars to customers & takes them for mot's etc. The GT6 was in a few weeks ago requiring work on the trunnions & rear handbrake, young mechanics didn't want to know (family run business) & this chap was asked to carry out the necessary repairs. He says he enjoyed working on the car & is now the "old school mechanic" for any other similar work that comes in. Handy places to know even if just to have them do the things we don't have specialist tools or equipment to do at home. The current project your working on is coming along nicely, paint colour suits that body shape too. Always a turning point once this process has been completed & the rebuilding can start.

That pic of workshop is like the garage in my wee village full with TR6's, Mini's, MGB GT, older R/R & a recently arrived Ferrari. Guy says doing modern accident damage not cost effective anymore & being an old school coach builder/mechanic turning his hand to classics is just like turning the clock back to when he started in the trade & finds people are more than happy to pay for quality workmanship for their classics to be repaired & often with staged payments which helps him keep the business ticking over. Great to see another workshop prepared to take on classic repair work.

Agree, you've already started resto so all you need to do now is work through it methodically until it's finished. Photos always appreciated of the various stages whether good, bad or down right spirit breaking as someone on forum will always post a few encouraging words to keep you on track. Good luck.

Get yourself a T6 tub from www.triumphspitfirelemans.com but read the current build by Chris in the specials section 1st as it's not a simple body off new body on fix. Results can be excellent if time, effort & skill applied to the project as can be seen in a few of the completed T6's. It is disappointing being at the start of a project only to discover hidden horrors, others have & soldiered through to achieve a very well finished fully refurbished car but at twice or three times estimated cost & time to complete. Depends how committed you are to seeing a project of this magnitude through to the end. Know personally I'd want to farm out the fab work as welding is tedious & time consuming especially to get panels & gaps acceptable & even longer to get just right.

A fine example of the "black art" of vehicle wiring & components. Good you managed to clarify & rectify the problem with A + B type relays  :)

A timely post as I also require a full carpet set & am going for the unmoulded type too. Always worth a search on here as normally the question has already been answered.