Alright alright alright. Still plodding along here.
The nose cone of the car had been looking pretty shabby, it still looks shabby but that didn't come without some serious effort. The liberal applications of various spray fillers and top coats over the years had cracked back to the metal..the paint was actually thicker than the metal, I had even used a little superglue it looks to secure some deep cracks..
Anyway I spent two and a half hours getting all but the very nose part off (too many bodies buried there) and repainting it....
I also spent a few hours on the attachment. I hammered the countersinking flat and redid it. I went through the bungs/couplers that the machine screws that hold it on go into and then shorted a new bunch of stainless c/sink Allen heads.. I'll put it back on today. The morse cables for the gearshift have been fitted up, adjusted and marked as they need to be completely disassembled to remove.
Fuel tank is done, holds 5.06 US gallons, which is of course 4.27 Imperial gallons OR 4.31 US dry gallons. Personally I, like the overwhelming majority of the great unwashed prefer to use the metric system and in that it comes up as 19 litres, or simply put, the volume of a corny keg ..cheers