History - Part 7 - Isn't about time you moved that skip from the garage

God doesn't time fly - not only have I not posted for 6 months but the car sat in the garage until the August 2003.

It was during this summer that I discovered a neighbour (Sean) owned a classic car workshop and was willing to take on some of the tasks to get Hattie back on the road.

He also offered a corner of the workshop and his tools and knowledge at my disposal to check out and refurbish a spitfire gearbox that I have sitting in the garage also. To this day I still have not taken him up on the offer and the gearbox is still sitting there ready to 'smack' your shins every time you need to get at the house fuse box.

So after charging the battery, making sure there is sufficient fuel, oil and water sean took the car for a week.

He completed the following;
1) Replaced Heater valve (goody, I can now turn off the heater without pissing water all over the place)
2) Replaced Starter solenoid (this fixed the problem, that everytime I turned off the engine, I had to wait at least half an hour before the car would restart, this was particulary amusing when I stopped for petrol)
3) Replaced nearside Universal Joint
4) Refurbished Propshaft
5) Replaced very noisy straight through exhaust pipe with a stainless steel semi sport exhaust from triumph six club
6) Added 2 lap belts to rear seat (Liz will now allow the kids to sit in the back.....bugger)
7) Get brand new MOT !

All I had to do now was complete the normal service items and Sean would then tune the car for me. See further posts as this has not happened to date.

I think the car is ready to drive to work (on dry days of course)..................................or so I thought.