Back to the cold UK but not too cold today.   I picked up various pieces of steelwork from Fidaport and Ian spent the day putting primer on them and then spent the rest of the day staining seat latts.  These are now looking good with the alternate colours.  Paul arrived and spent the morning making the template for the D end canopy bend canvas strips.  Jim put the straps onto the A side rocker panel and I spent the day working on the floor latts.  Due to my lack of forethought these had been installed and painted before we put the bolts in for the sway bar bracket.  They looked good.

I realised that we needed to take two of them up, then locate the pre drilled holes in the cross members and install the bolts before putting the latts back with cutouts over the heads of the coach bolts. This took most of the day.  Three of the holes were located easily but one was difficult. A floor nail was right in the way so on Paul's advice I chopped out a small section of floor board and eventually extracted the nail and found the hole in the cross member.

A somewhat battered floor nail.

Once that was out of the way the sway bar bracket, now primed, was put in place upside down to test the alignment of the bolts.

Miracles of miracles it fitted.  Nearest the camera you can see where the floor board piece had been taken out.  This hole was then filled with a plug of floorboard offcut, with a pre drilled hole in it.  All 4 bolts were then fitted and before we left we got the first of the latts screwed back down again. We also managed to get some marking out done for the positions of the seat frames.  All in all a good day.