Triumph TR3-Just Garage Clean Up and Daydreaming.

All has been quiet on the TR front for the last while as I have been otherwise distracted from my car reconstruction hobby (which in fact is not a bad thing as I needed a bit of a break from the toxic environment of filler dust and paint fumes) but now I am feeling a strong need to get back out into the garage and back to work.

Yesterday I went out into the garage and cleaned up the "consumed" sand paper and tided tools etc. About 20 minutes total. I didn't even bother to turn on the furnace and just did the work in the -10 degrees C. temperature. As I was working I did a quick calculation and figured I have about $300 invested in bodywork supplies to get the body to it's current state. The $$$$ add up fast.

I am still focusing on substantially completing the body work my the end of the first week in January 2011 (potentially ambitious but my intent) so I can move on to the chassis reconstruction. I anticipate I have about 30 hours of work left to complete to de-rusting (and prep) of the rear panels around the spare tire cover and installation of the pre-made repair patches-then filling and splashing on some primer to finish off the area.