My car should go to Barry's house of fine metalwork in September.

In the meantime, in case anyone remembers who I am and what my car's supposed to be like, I'll do a few posts answering the question "what have you been doing for 2 years while failing to make any visible progress on your resto project?" 
Which is a more polite version of what my non-car friends say when they come round and see the car in the same old state. Friends who have restored cars don't tend to ask.