Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum...

[jansens]

Congrats R! I know how it feels. Today I drove my special for the first time. After nearly 8 years working on it!

Simon

[Howard Wright]

Absolutely fabulous (the pink running boards)

The cup looks good too!

Well done Ruairidh.  We may (very tentative) be in Scotland around rally time and I would love to pop in just to see the Cups!  

Your voting scheme for prizes will really be for Cups this year!!!!

Cheers

Howard

[Ruairidh Dunford]

"Salmon pink" ...No, no. Try general Motors Pulsating Primrose... P.S. That's an impressive rate of progress in the last twelve hours.

It was nice to see you all - I do hope your journey home was okay.

As you will now know - having time on my own projects is a very rare thing and I tend to make the most of them. I had my friend help me yesterday, which was invaluable - thank you Charlie!

Howard - everyone is very welcome, I hope you come.

[Mike Costigan]

... That's an impressive rate of progress in the last twelve hours.

I was about to say something similar. When Tony and I saw the car twelve hours earlier, there was no radiator, lamps, wings, instruments, registration plates; in fact never mind about seats and carpets, there wasn't even any floor!

[Chris KC]

Great work Ruairidh! I can just imagine how it feels taking her down the road for the first time.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

The Cup is off for her big op. on Monday night - she's getting her bonnet clipped and her wings repaired, plus a lot of other little and no so little things that need to be made/fitted and then painted.

I grabbed an hour tonight to fit the front and back bonnet trims, will add a couple of the wire clips to the front tomorrow...

   

   

   

   

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Having completed this on Thursday...



...I awarded myself some time on the Cup again today.

I made up patterns for the windscreen glass and took them to the glaziers to be cut.  A friendly Forum member contacted me about the gearbox I had and offered to swap it for one with the correct selector orientation - I gratefully accepted (thank you Gary) and today removed all the floor before lifting the gearbox off the engine and fitting the other - there really is great space for doing this in the Cup!

   

Tony's ad/retard quadrant arrived and I was able to fit it neatly in place - thank you Tony!

I then started to clip in the wiring for the rear lights and hope to complete the rest tomorrow - I am really enjoying just looking at the car just now - sorry, it's been a long time coming and I like the way it has come together!

   

[AllAlloyCup]

Hi Ruairidh

Your Cup runneth over!

It’s looking great and will soon be
Motoring to Guildtown!

Regards

Bill G

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Lots of little time consuming jobs that you will be familiar with Bill.

[Nick Turley]

Looks a great job and now at a very exciting stage. Go for it.