What a handsome thing a 240 is.
After all the tweaking and sorting out any teething problems, the car is running beautifully.
We took it out for drive it day.
It hit a major birthday.
I took it back up to Arbroath to see the previous owner and the family, who were really happy to see the car back on the road.
I decided it was time to focus on the finishing touches.
The trim clips for the hockey sticks had all rusted off.
New ones from Brookhouse (and some free sweets!)
Which meant I could refit the hockey sticks.
Next up, an all over clay bar treatment to try and get rid of the years of baked on grime. The paint felt like sandpaper to the touch!
Then a polish, wash and wax, followed by some linseed oil rubbed into all the very tired looking plastics.
Good as new!
A quick coat of black paint on the new sills. These are going to be body coloured ideally, but this improves things in the meantime.
What a cracking looking car.
The badges were refitted at last.
Some valve caps.
And finally, the interior got a good going over with a vacuum cleaner and flashdash restorer.
Today's rain really shows off the beading.
What's left to be done?
I need to take the doors off, fix some rust on the inner skins and rehang them.
The boot lid needs some damage resprayed.
The sills need a coat of body colour.
A little bit of touchup paint to fix a couple of scratches.
I think that's it. I may even take it to a few shows as I've found 240s to be a little bit under-represented, and saloons basically non existent!
A good time to look back?
