Hole in the floor

Since picking up the car the sun visors have been stuck solid so I removed them today and also gave them a clean. After a bit of intense waggling they seem to be okay now if a little stiff.

A bit of mold

Cleaned up very easy

While I was messing around I decided to have another look under the carpet at the floor pan as I'd never really had a look at the bulkhead. Well the passenger side looked as I remembered and the bulkhead also looks good. When I looked at the drivers side I found a hole just past where the foot pedals are. Oh crap. Well I always knew owning a Triumph that at some point I would be drawn into the seedy underground world of welding but I had hoped to put it off a while longer. The hole is very small only about 8mm x 12mm but it would certainly fail an MOT so before the summer comes round again I know I will have to get this sorted. I don't currently own any welding gear so I will have to think about how I tackle this problem as I dont have any real spare cash to throw at the car at the moment. Its a lesson learned as I remember lifting the carpet to have a look at the floor when I bought the car but I should have pulled it back a bit further. I would still have bought it but I could have knocked another couple of hundred off the agreed price.

What could be better than a Christmas drive

Its Christmas Eve and while no one was stirring not even a mouse, I was out on drive in the GT6, dodging the puddles naturally. When I was almost back I stopped and decided to do some pretty dodgy camera work for the last bit of the journey. If no one has ever driven a GT6 I hope you can get the idea and see the reason why driving it and looking down the great bonnet gives me such a buzz. Even a Ford Focus going the other way obliged and highlighted how low this thing is. My eyeline was level with the top of his door.

Have a great Christmas.

To drive or not to drive

I haven't managed to get out in the car in the last couple of weeks other than starting her up, backing out on to the drive and going back in to the garage. Now I hear that snow is coming its going to get harder to get out in the car than ever. I'm probably being slightly over the top about it, after all its been around for 40 years now (although I know from receipts I have that it was partially rebuilt in 1985 with replacement sills, wheel arches etc.) but I've just got this image of me driving out in the wet and the car disintegrating around me and being left sitting on the floor holding the steering wheel like something from a kids cartoon. I'm sure it wont be that bad but its very frustarting at the moment balancing my desire to drive the car with keeping it in good health. Ive also got a theory that leaving cars standing sometimes does a lot more harm than good so we'll just have to see how the winter pans out but I will try to get out as often as the weather allows.