Wednesday, April 29, 2015

First work day was held on Tuesday April 28th at Dave Folk's house by Tennyson IN.  Made some great progress, fixed locking rear passenger brake so we can roll the car around, removed windshield plus several body panels (both doors, trunk lid, hood, and passenger side fender).  Starting removal of some of the old floor panels.  Picture below is starting work on the replacement passenger side fender, it's much better than the one of the car but still needs a "dog leg" panel installed on it's lower extremity right behind the wheel.






That's Dave Folk in the foreground sporting his new look, shaved off his beard and hair in honor of bagging a nice wild turkey the week before. 

Next steps are kinda grunt work - lots of sanding to prepare for paint.

Friday, April 17, 2015

SIR Brit Project Car

SIR Brit car club decided to tackle restoring a car and selling it to benefit a non-profit.  A committee of four members (Dave Folk, Ray Graham, Al Sarhoff, and Vince Anderson) started looking at cars and did a deep dive into two viable cars, a 1970 MGB and a 1966 Triumph Spitfire.  We decided on the MGB, here's some pictures of it from the evaluation:







On April 13th the club officially approved the project, and the car now resides at Dave Folk's house.  Dave will be leading the initial phase on body prep and paint.

Club members will be working on Tuesday mornings starting 4/28 and then one Saturday a month, first one being May 16th.

Stay tuned for further updates, our goal is to have a nice car ready to either auction or raffle off within about a year!