SM: Restoration restarts !

Restoration restarts, after a pause of more than 6 years! I’m hearing you saying “it’s about time” and you are absolutely right 😉

In 2018 I called again the specialist who made the previous body work on this car, Gilles Lemay (www.garagegilleslemay.com), because I’m very happy with the quality of his work. He told me that he will be able to work on the car somewhere in the fall season.

So in October, I started by preparing the car for the trip, which means putting some body panels back onto the car, temporarily.

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I wanted to put back a minimum of parts so to support the front fenders I started by making a temporary support with some wood pieces

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The left fender doesn’t fit well ans is not aligned properly, I believe its back portion doesn’t have the right shape

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Eventually, I thought I had to put the font faceplate back to better position the fenders, it’s going to be useful when doing the alignment work

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So I had to put back the faceplate supports (lower and upper)

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I try to protect the faceplate, this is a brand new part, which has been painted, so I would like to avoid damaging it

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Faceplate supports are also used for the hood locking mechanism, so I’ll use them…

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… they will hold the hood during the road trip to the body shop

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Here is the hood back into place, everything being approximately aligned

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This is eventually just before Christmas that Gilles could receive the car. So I called a professional transporter because we had to use a closed trailer, knowing that we were facing winter conditions, already quite hard in December. If I had simply used an open trailer, the car would have arrived at the body shop in a very bad shape!