Lest you think I haven’t been
working on Alphie… Truth is, Alphie had
to sit for a bit while we replaced the siding, all the windows and three doors
on our house. Aggravating as it is, when
you get to the short rows of a mortgage (it’s a southern (US) expression that you may need to
Google), you find that you have to practically rebuild the house, which
pushes out paying off the mortgage, hmmm (angry face emoji). |
| I took these before pics to remember where things go |
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| After! Clean with Bling |
I was digging through my photos and
found some pics I took to remember where things mount, and I thought it would
be cool to show you some before and after pics.
I recreated the before pics so butcher’s hook (an obscure bit of British
slang I happened upon – hint: it’s a rhyming slang, enjoy your search).
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| Before... |
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| After - Boo Ya! |
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| Before with extra rust |
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| After, and (supposedly) all the components function! |
But I added some shiny bits like
stainless steel hose clamps that are close to the originals but won’t
rust. You may also note that I found new
wire hose clamps that are very close to the original bits. I know it’s not OEM, but it looks very much
like it would at the Rootes dealership (or Dodge – Plymouth, maybe, Bob’s
British Imports, or whatever dealership sold Sunbeams in the U.S.A.) back in
1964.  |
Defroster box and heat deflector- powder coated and shiny!
The heat deflector looks crooked, but that's how the screw holes line it up. |
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New grommets for the accelerator linkage.
The linkage needs some fiddling |
