Back to the Bus!

With Linz away snowboarding, and Bill playing taxi to and from Luton airport, we fixed a date in the diary to get onto the bus again and that date was Saturday.

Having battered GT5 till 2:30am we somehow managed to be up and at it by 10:30am Saturday morning. Its amazing what coffee and poached eggs & bacon on toast can do!

Its been a while since I touched the bus, but I was soon reminded where we had got to before.

The forecast for the day was appalling, and it was clear we were going to be battered by a strong gusting wind throughout.  We decided to get a gazebo up, strengthen it, and tie it down as best we could.  If nothing else it gave us a starting point to try and keep the gas out of the torch heading rougly towards the weld!

We got cracking with sorting the closing panel for the n/s rear arch.  It all cleaned up a treat, and we mocked everything up with a definite sense of deja vu!

It was clear that further repairs were going to be needed though!

Everything went fairly smoothly, with the odd exception of diving across the grass to grab a gazebo leg!  It was the usual case of small things taking ages, and sorting the lip took 3 or 4 times longer than we would have liked.  But in the end it all went together nicely, and we got everything done tidied and packed up before darkness decended.

We've spent a lot of time mocking up the adjacent panels, so next I can move onto the rear arch repair and know it will slot in nicely.   Then onto the rear corner when things will really start to take shape!

I've bags of enthusiasm for this now, and I'm desperately hoping to get back onto it very shortly.