Page Fifty-Four - Before & After and Bling

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

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).

Before...

After - Boo Ya!

Before with extra rust

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.

New grommets for the accelerator linkage. 
The linkage needs some fiddling