Hi Everyone - thanks for the comments,
Yeah the LH bumper iron is pushed in a bit, but I can't get hold of a new
one at the moment so I'll have to make do at the time being. I'm repairing the bit which connects the iron to the tie plate so I have the opertunity to get it all in line properly.
Matt, when I said the bumper sticks out, I mean when looking at the front of the car it sticks out the side of the car a bit. Its as though the bumper has been "straightened" if you know what I mean.
Scott, yeah I can see now how rear won't fit properly - I could really do with a spare bumper to check whether mine is out of line. And the photos are all very recent so its all still apart being repaired!
Kevin, some pics would be great. Just on the detail of how the bumper fits onto the wing. As for the anti roll bar, I've had it on for about 6 years and the car used to be my daily driver and was always a bit low so it got a bit of a hammering. The mount on one side broke and Mr Grumpys sent me one free of charge when I told them (I had better put that on the site really!). Its been fine ever since. I think some of the problem is the difficuly I had getting the tie bar/bolt and anti-roll bar bolt all in line - it may have weakened it. The only other problem with it was the large nuts they used to clamp the end mounts to the bar (quite hard to explain - nuts with threaded holes in the side - with little screws in to act as grub screws, these then slide over the bar and the small screws are tightened to hold the mount to the bar if you see what I mean
) - anyway my dad sells fastners so I swapped them for proper items which clamp onto the bar alot tighter.
She is a real highway yellow car <so proud!> I have only ever seen one other at the 50th anniversary do at Blenheim palace. I know of another (a convertable) in scotland. Its not surprising there are so few as the colour was only done for 6 months. I have had lots of problems with tradesmen not knowing it was genuine (I didn't know until recently) so they tried (and failed) to match the colour to the faded yellow. About 7/8 years ago she was re-sprayed a yellower yellow which was a bit annoying. The restoration work they did wasn't too hot (the lack of rustproofing didn't help) so I'm having to re-do alot of stuff - and everthing I work on is getting painted in YL9 as I go!
phew! sorry about the long post so many things to reply to!
thanks again for all the advice
Rupert
so may have knocked things a bit out of line. Is the rear bumper the same shape? (i.e. can i use it to check the position of the bumper mounts - I haven't crashed the rear of the car as far as I know!)
