Whilst I was sorting out all the door internals, I came across the metal plates that go over the access holes in the door, these were painted the same mushroom colour that i had try to get matched for the seats and other bits, I was pleased to find that once I had had the colour matted down some more it was very close to what was on there originally.
A lot of the underneath of my car was painted this colour, particularly the areas where there wasn't much undercoating.
I got some used hardtop handles and seat vents, there were a couple of broken tabs on the seat vents so I welded some new ones on ready to send those to the platers, in hindsight I wish I had followed Sticks advice and got new ones from SLS as I think these will cause me grief, but I just couldn't face 700 euros for a set, also having seen the originals v the repro, the originals are much nicer.
The hardtop handles came apart OK though, the hardtop for mine is not original to the car and has the later style handles, I was missing the handle part so I figured if I have to buy something I might as well buy the right thing so it at least looks like it is right and proper.
On a previous post I was talking about starter and alternator upgrades. Naj has been extremely helpful with advice on what to get, I got a new Bosch starter the other day and have ordered a 55A alternator, he very kindly supplied me with a later cast alternator bracket to replace the original steel one. The steel one I have is fine, this is more a preventative measure as I understand the original piece is a bit weak. I will still get the old one plated so it could go back on should anyone desire, so thanks Naj!
