Happy New Year!

Yes, I've been away. Had some illness, then when I recovered from that I had surgery to fix an injury from August. Anyway, my Spit is almost on the road. Just need to get fuel to the carbs, and it should run. It ran on starting fluid the other day. I'm almost there.

A few more pics, and hope

Well, a few more pics of the rebuild. I've moved, had strep throat, and just had surgery yesterday since the 4th of November. Needless to say, I'm not making the type of progress I want to. I really hope to drive my Spit to my club's Christmas Party. That's a few weeks away. Once I'm recovered, I hope to get cracking. For now, here are some more shots.

Instead of preparing to move...

I decided to do a quick post. Almost a year ago I bought my Spit, tore into it, and thought I'd be driving by now. However, the heat of the summer in a garage/storage unit with no fans or ac made work stop. Then it started cooling off again, and I went crazy trying to make my car ready for the Texas All British Car Day weekend in Round Rock, TX.

The show came and went, though I did get a huge amount of work done. More in 3 weeks than the previous 6 months. And this is roughly what has happened from the previous pics in the last post.

Actually, there's much more progress, I just got lazy and didn't bring the camera over. Next trip will fix that...

The Paddock is open

Ok, so I decided to finally just make a blog about my car and my experiences with other Triumphs and the occasional other Brit cars, too. (Interlopers!) That being said, I'll be putting up pics of my current project, a 1978 Triumph Spitfire 1500 and the progress made. For entertainment, I may even dig out old pics of my other cars and relate some of the humorous stories and joys of ownership.

These are pics from the day I brought the car to it's current home, and as you can see, it's not too shabby. Of course, I went ahead and tore into it quickly, so it'll be quite some time before things look this good again.