The EX "A Quick Build" is now the New Protracted Build A35

Sam, No problem at all with the bonnet, And its now painted internally, so I hope it won't cause any falling rust issues, or falling apart   Initialy, when I found the rust, I thought about a Fibreglass Motobuild bonnet, but then, Fibreglass is for Boats  , so, the next thought was track down a CarbonFibre one I had seen, pucker bit of kit, Full autoclave jobbie, but at £1000 each, it wasn't the only thing to pucker. 
There is still another possibility, probably for the future, is alloy skin the bonnet, I have access to an English wheel, do away with the Flying A plinth, makes it not too complicated, its then a relatively  easy thing to do, also, do away with the awful Austin bonnet catch and convert to a pin and spring like most other cars, have a cable operated bonnet..............

Thats the one, Richard Woolmer.....

TBH, I don't even think it will get off my drive, and the road outside is Unadopted and poured concrete slabs about 20'x20' I don't think theres one that aligns within an inch anywhere, and some are misaligned by 6", a real sump breaker, don't much in the way of speeding down the road.

There's only a few genuinely good weld through primers - one I use is a Kent Europe product but you need a trade account with them - Bilt Hamber do this one which is equally as good & readily available 

www.bilthamber.com/paints-and-coatings/etchweld

Excellent. Are you going to have a camo 'driving suit' to match?

Look very similar in style/shape to the clubman seats I seem to have inherited here as part of my cousin's mini storage - they weigh sod all too, which is in stark contrast to the folding A35 seats I had to lug into storage last night.

blimey , they have turned out.....ummm....unique!

The question of ground clearance has been bothering me a little, so I have got to work with sorting me a bit of room, I had made provision so I could add spacers under the mounts, that gained me 10mm under the engine, to get to the nearside engine mount I needed to remove the exhaust manifold, no big deal, its 5 coarse threaded 10mm bolts, the have only ever been nipped up, I also took the advantage of cutting a wee slot in the down pipe and angling the pipe up a few mm just to give a better line to get the exhaust together and a little more ground clearance, that 5mm movement at the end of the pipe caused a big issue in getting the manifold back into the engine bay, a little bit of trimming eventually got it back into position, add gasket , goo and new bolts, time to bolt onto head, all good so far...... Mmm that bolt dosent seem to pull up very tight, turns out 4 out of 5 boltholes were stripping, manifold off again, out with the Helicoils, and Helicoil the head in situ, tool a trip to Screwfix to get a right angle drill, but its done, so why did the bolts strip without much effort...... I thought I would check, normally I would use UNBRAKO Allen bolts, but these are near to unobtainable during the lockdown, enter EBAY box of 10mm x 1,5pitch and rated to 8,8, Got my vernier out and measured the thread OD 9.4mm!!!!!!!!!! minimum diameter tolerance for this bolt should be about a smidge under 9.8, makes sense why the threads pulled, theres a call going out for unbrakos tomorrow, and boll-ocs to Ebay hardware

I can't answer your current questions, but I can answer one of your previous ones.....
Are my seats epic ?

Yes most definitely I love them.

Make sure you get any release agent off the plastic and give them a good key (scotchbrite) and you should be on a winner.