Its time for the Mercules update number 12, this one will be a little smaller than normal. We have been so flat out with everything else that Mercules has been a little lonely lately. We are still waiting on a lot of the trim to come back from the trimmer. Unfortuately we may have made a bad decission with this particular trimmer he does great work but slow we have been waiting for a few months now.
We have been able to start assembling the rest of the shell, with all the doors neatly fitted back to where they belong. The shell is actually starting to take shape, it had been so long since the door’s and panels have been on the car both AJ and myself had kind of forgotten what she looked like.
…..One thing that stood out to both of us is how long the boot lid looked when bolted back on……
One thing that we where both very happy about thanks to a forum member (gwunta) was the opportunity to purchase a better Merc steering wheel. The old wheel was that horrible 1970’s spongie foam crap. The new wheel is a nice hard plastic style with the cool chrome bar for the horn.
Almost all of the fabrication work has been finished now apart from sorting out one more extractor for the drivers side. Obviously we still have a lot of work in front of us but the old girl is starting to come back together, a little slower than we had hoped but all in all we are still making progress.
Both Aj and myself are both really looking forward to getting the trim back so we can admire the nice new bright white paint siting next to the glossy black trim