Some progress to report. Still not actually building yet, getting there.

I spent a couple of days stripping the final useful parts from the Jaguar - resorted to the gas axe for the front suspension mounts (really I just wanted to try the gas axe out - it's been over 20 years since I wielded one!)

Dragged the body shell from the workshop using the tractor. I got lazy. I let the jack down with only one hand trolley under the front of the body.

The hand trolley survived only as far as the shed door, then one of the wheels completely separated from it's hub and the whole lot catastrophically collapsed. Cor blimey that Jag was heavy! Thankfully it made it out the shed door so I didn't end up damaging my shed floor. I ended up just lifting the car up and putting the old bonnet under the end to act as a skid. (My wife's suggestion!)

It worked a treat for most of the hundred odd yard journey up the drive to the front paddock where the car was left for the scrappy to collect.

Nice paint effect on the bonnet!

That cleared some room in the shed to get on with other things.

I painted up a couple of Jaguar wheels to see how they'd look with the Wolseley caps on, I'm happy with how they look.

I also played around with the ride height of the front end, but I'll have to remove the axles next to fiddle around to see how it will all fit together. I'm looking forward to getting into the real stuff, I feel like I'm just stuffing around so far, but it's all worth my time, I'm not really the "feet first" type.

On another note, I got tracked down by a Wolseley enthusiast from Sydney (Andrew Snelling of Peking to Paris fame) and we finally met up this week. He is preparing his 14/60 to take to the Australia Day MotorFest in Sydney city. It was great to meet him and check out his 14/60 he and his father restored in the mid 1980s. I didn't quite realise how rare the 14/60 was, his is the only one on the road in New South Wales, and he'd know - he really is Mr Wolseley.

He has another complete 14/60 under a tarp waiting restoration, I wish I had the money to buy it and the spare time to restore it.

Next job: remove the front and rear axles from the Wolseley, check the clearance of the wheels given the track width and set some sort of ride height/rake.

And I start my new job on Monday. Bring it on. :lol:

Cheers all,

Andrew.