1973 Triumph Spitfire - Done - Collected

Your work rate is very impressive Chris.. To achieve the standard of work that you do in the time frame that you do is absolutely amazing

I'm going to create a thread for my other project soon.. Reason I haven't up until now is because I'm so painfully slow at working on it.. Very hard to motivate myself with my own car when I can get paid to work on someone else's

The passenger seat looks like it has eaten all the pies when compared to the driver’s side.

Very much so - yes back to the Jupiter, alongside another Jupiter, a Lambretta scooter, BSA (car), MGB GT, Jowett Javelin, Jowett Bradford - possibly a Triumph Dolomite at some stage in that mix too 

Ooooh , a dolly , nice.

Someone I used to work with called them the Triumph Dolloposh!te but I always liked them, they have great Michelotti styling.
I remember that they would rust around the front subframe mountings.
I will look forward to seeing Grumps fix this one up.

Why is it what you would assume are pretty easy straight forward jobs turnout to be a complete pain 



Need to get the external bits fitted back on the doors - so a flat & polish first 



With that done I need to fit the weatherstrip that fits between the glass & the door skin 



Realise that its not going to happen with the door glass fitted - so I remove the glass from door / door glass regulator 



Weatherstrip is retained to the flange on the doorskin 



With these U shaped barbed clips - daftest stupid idea ever !! - You have to some how contortion you hand & arm through the one of the small apertures in the door shell and hold the clip in place whilst attempting to force the weatherstrip downwards on the barbs of the clip - meanwhile someone had thought it a good idea when last repairing bodging the door back together to cake it in a kilo of grease - not fun 



Not one for giving in easily I stick at it and eventually succeed - but only after several hours of getting covered in grease & skin abrasions to my arms 



But at least they are now on both doors - but the external door handle / lock has started to play up on the offside door again so I need to take a further look at that - more tomorrow 
 

They are available from the usual suspects, and also on eBay. Not tried one though. rimmerbros.com/Item--i-RX1562

I have something similar amongst my tool collection - unfortunately it doesn't work that well - you spend more time retrieving the clip when it falls off the tool - even tried double sided tape to hold the clip there - frustrating whatever way you approach / achieve it