Bodywork complete

A major milestone today – Bespoke Bodywork have completed their work, delivered the car back home and helped me push it inside the garage. I am thrilled, it has come out just the way I imagined and looks exactly like the sports-car I wanted it to be. There have been a few compromises along the

Final fitting…

This week the Riley is being put back together. All the bodywork, floors, transmission tunnel, bulkhead, firewall, mud guards etc had been removed for final finishing. Essentially this is the fettling phase of the build where the entire bodywork is checked over by lightly sanding with a Scotch-Brite abrasive – this shows up where any

Almost there…

Not too much to report today as the car has been stripped back to an empty chassis to enable final finishing of all the components.  Out of sight are the completed headlamp mounts, front seats, spare wheel mount, engine cooling pipe, instrument panel mounting tabs, fuel tank protection mounts (more on that another day) oh

A Racing bonnet

The bones of the bonnet (or hood for our American friends) are now in place and it finally looks like a car. The bonnet looks much longer than i was expecting which is a good thing and I am really rather pleased with the overall look. On the passenger side above the chassis, there is

Firewall and bulkhead

The pace of the build is not letting up. The petrol tank is now almost complete and all the seams etc are beautifully welded together, the only items left to do are the mounting straps and the final placing of the filler neck. The filler cap itself will wait until the rear wheel mount is