Black 1984 MG Montego efi with digital dash

[Jeff Turbo]

Made a start on removing the headlining today. Never seen one like this before, no biscuit, metal bar sewn in, no sunroof surround glued on the sides and seat material. This'll be fun, removing the sunroof next. Reminds me of the Vauxhall Carlton sunroof

[Jeff Turbo]

It's extremely disappointing John but have to move on

[Doctordiesel77]

Annoying that they did a good job of the welding work, then spoiled things by creating extra work...

[Jeff Turbo]

When the car comes back it should be just
Putting the interior back in
Headlining
Adjust the sunroof
Put exhaust on
Sort sticking boot and fuel flap
Big clean up
MOT with luck
So yeah next year I should be back to shows with a montego. Haven't done that for a bit. I do normally find some time to work on cars during October-January so hopefully it'll be completed by early 2020. The car does start on the button now and the engine is very smooth and quiet. Then possibly re-starting on my other MG Montego

In addition
Attach front splash shields
Attach front and rear seat belts and interior trim
Realign front and rear bumpers
Realign offside doors
Sort damage to front wings
Replace battery tray
Clean interior
Clean engine bay
Paint engine
And much more now that I can't think of

[Jeff Turbo]

Roof lining and sunroof I will sort first as that's a job I need to do prior to sorting the interior, seats, carpet, electrics etc as nothing is in the interior and more just left not bolted/screwed in. The list has now grown considerably

[Jeff Turbo]

Car hasn't even been washed and a lot of the parts not put back on or left hanging, more work for me then

[Jeff Turbo]

The car has now been returned, and although the welding and sills are extremely good the other parts are not. Damage to both front wings and the mess that's left isn't what I was expecting . Battery is completely flat so the car had to be pushed into the garage

[Jeff Turbo]

As I put the carpet from this car into my red one it's time to clean this one. Took three goes at it to clean it without rubbing the carpet away but drying now as its as clean as its going to get

[Jeff Turbo]

Grey plastic cleaning next, while I'm waiting for the car to be delivered later today now as the driver couldn't get away yesterday and I finally told the Mrs I have it, only took near 2 years lol, well not being delivered today, so will get my own driver as i'm being mucked about

[Jeff Turbo]

Passenger seat finished, also painted the adjuster and now ready to put in

[Jeff Turbo]

As the welding etc is all done its on its way back to me tomorrow evening. Cleaned out the garage that I had put many NOS parts in for this car. and now ready to receive, can't wait.

[Jeff Turbo]

As Rimmers have a sale on and my last NOS pair went with the sale of my red MG Montego, I bought a pair of these at £2.90 each with my discount to put into the car. A bargain https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-PAM5436RNG

[Jeff Turbo]

In the paint booth, all done now and ready to come back possibly next week. Then the fun begins

[Jeff Turbo]

One door to paint, then put the doors and front wings, bumpers back on etc. Then back to me to finish, looking good

[Jeff Turbo]

I'm not having the whole car painted, just the door that needed welding and all that the bodyshop welded.