Sad news, I'm afraid (members of the TTN will already know this) - Daffy has failed her MOT. Terminally. I had got all the mechanical stuff sorted, but the tester failed her on a lot of different rust areas. After much soul-searching, I have come to the realistic decision that this body-tub contains so much rust that it is not practicable to fix it up properly. I could patch up the immediate failure points and keep going for another year (as I have been doing since I bought Daffy almost exactly 5 years ago), but that in itself will be pretty pricey, and the problem will undoubtably be worse still next year. So, Daffy is being stuck away in a dry garage, pending possible resuscitation in a few years when finances allow - or a decision to do something else. If a rust-free tub should come my way, that would be the ideal solution (and I am kicking myself black and blue for failing to buy one I saw for sale a couple of months ago), but it's not something that appears frequently in Aberdeenshire. If you all (at least those in the UK) keep your eyes open for a CHEAP rust-free tub, I'd be interested. Failing that, I am considering a Hurricane - a fibre-glass body that is a direct replacement for the steel body-tub and bonnet, and you just put all the same internal bits back in again. A good solution, but it'll cost #3000, plus painting, which I don't have now and am unlikely to have for a couple of years at least. Also, if I had #4000 burning a hole in my pocket, I'd be very tempted to buy a Stag instead... So, for the immediate future I shall be Spit-less. I'll still subscribe, and contribute, to the Spitfire List - I've built up too much camaraderie around here to let that go, even if I never own a running Triumph again! Richard & Daffy (in indefinite hibernation)
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