Restoring a Top Hat

[Parazine]

On the way up!

I really love this stage of a floor up restoration, when the body finally starts to go back together and a car starts to emerge from the ruins that have been sitting around the garage. For months and months (years actually, I started this resto in 2018) I seem to have been working on bits of car, finishing one piece and moving on to the next without actually achieving anything but this week has made the difference and the Top Hat is back in town.

   

   

Wings went on with only cursory difficulty and the front end finally is aligned and straight after probably 90 years of being bent and misshapen. Changing the O/S cowhorn finally aligned everything at the front, even the bonnet fit is nearly right now. I think the body is very slightly twisted still but you have to know this to have a chance of seeing it and even I'm not sure!

I have three weeks left before I have to go back to work so the next priority job is glazing the remainder of the windows, then the new dashboard needs a lot of metalwork and paint.