Yeeee HAH! She's through! She passed! This afternoon down in Deal, at Ebden's garage, our old girl passed all the checks and came away with her certificate.

There were a couple of moments of panic - she's not yet registered, so you MOT her as the chassis number, rather than the reg', and the nice man couldn't make his computer accept the chassis number in the Reg' Number field. Then she blew an in-line fuse, apparently because of a short in the rear number-plate illumination light. This was repaired and the fuse replaced, and the test began.

Now she's out, and I have driven her back round to Andy's Mum's farm. Andy has all the docs and can now get her registered.

Driving her was an unusual experience, for one not used to 47 year old 475cc cars of this level of (cough) sophistication - she rattles and lurches, groans and grinds, doesn't accelerate when you think she might (I was being chaperoned by JJ in his DS and we had to pull off the fast road into a parking layby at one stage, while a big tailback cleared. Excellent fun though. Andy is quite envious that I've had a drive, while he's still stuck at work.

More soon 

After a long break of nobody doing very much apart from JJ, who has been quietly sorting the finishing touches to the bodywork, touching up the heraldic insignia on the doors, and tidying up the dash, plus making the seriously dodgy looking loom a bit safer by wrapping it in insulation tape, and colour coding the wires, we all descended today.

JJ had been getting frustrated with the lighting stalk/switch, unable to make any sense of the switch in its various positions. Ian showed up today with a replacement switch, so that end worked, but it turned out that headlights had been set up wrong, with one side on dip when the other was on main beam and vice versa.

We'd also had a problem with the brakes, in that the washer which releases the brake lights switch when you boot the pedal, had sprung past the switch body, so was now working backwards, preventing you from releasing the barkes. JJ on a test drive had been going slower and slower so that he barely got home. Those two bits are now all sorted. and she's off for her MOT this week

That just leaves us with the no-output dynamo to fix (the battery has enough oomph to get us to the test and back, and once we're legal, we can drive her round to JJ's electrics guru