Right Side.

I have now fitted up all the panels I have back. The right side is almost complete, just needing the front guard. There are 4 panels to come back and be fitted- front right guard, bonnet, rear panel and engine bay lid. Hope to have these items and the rear seat soon. Then its just the engine and some new tires for the cosmic's to go.

Notice the chrome bullet mirror. Same as was fitted by the original 

owner back in the 60's. As per some of the original photos sent to me.

Fitting up the panels.

I have fitted up all the panels on the left hand side today. With the help of my son Michael we managed to get them all lined up well with reasonable gaps. I have fitted the rear right door as well. I think the right side will be the most difficult to get correct. My panel beater is coming over when all the panels are fitted to assist in getting the panels right.
The rubber seals are a real pain as they are glued in place with only 3 locating pins near the lock on each door. I marked out where the rubber fits, roughed up the surfaces, taped up the edge where the rubber fits to stop over gluing the doors and used a good quality contact adhesive. The doors were very hard to close in the first instance but have become much better an hour later. After a few days of being closed the rubber seals will take shape and become easier.

 Left side fitted up.

 14 months to get to this stage.

Looks like a car again.

Interior moving along.

The car finally came back from the trimmer and he has put 4 pimples in the roof while doing the headlining. I have the Dent removal tech coming out to repair them and I'll give the bill for repairs to the trimmer. To say I am not impressed with the trimmer would be an understatement.
I have started replacing the seats etc today while the doors are off. I will complete the doors on the weekend and fit them up.

 Hood lining in place.

 Front seats and floor mats back in. 

You can just see the pimples. They look like

mountains in the sun light!

Fitting up the doors.

The shell was supposed to have come home yesterday from its 3 week job that was to take 1 week! My trimmer likes to leave things to the last minute so I had to cancel the truck as the front windscreen was not fitted on time.

I fitted up all the glass, rubbers and trim to one of the rear doors today. I had an old door nearby to copy from as its been a while since I stripped them. I only need to fit the aluminum strip to the outside tomorrow and the rubber weather seal. I will fit the seals when I have all the doors ready together.

 Lock fitted.

 A fly screen spline roller was handy to fit the bailey channel.

 Trim fitted.

Internal fit up completed. I will paint the faded door handles

 and renew the chrome strip to make them look a bit better.

Fitting up the front doors created a problem with new rubbers. I can wind up the window without much trouble but the new outer glass scraper wants to invert when winding down. The rubber sticks to the glass. I will try to roughen up the side of the rubber that mates with the glass in a hope it will allow the glass to slide properly.

I rubbed the aluminum outer body strips with 1500 wet and dry then polished them on the polishing wheel on the grinder. They came up quite nice.

The shell is now finished at the trimmer and will return home tomorrow.

Outer of the completed rear doors.

 Inside of the completed rear doors.

 Front passenger door

Not too shabby.

The panels are back.

I picked up some of the panels today from the painter. 4 doors and 3 guards. I will deliver the bonnet tomorrow and then the last panels will be painted and returned to the car.
The shell is still in town and the window fitter is having some trouble fitting the rear window due to the curves in the glass. I hope to have it back by the weekend so I can start fitting up the interior and the panels. Looks like I have plenty to do now.

 Some of my completed panels. Front seats to the left of photo

 completed and ready to be installed back into the car.

Couple of doors.