1961 MGA for Eric

 The owner had a set of MGB sits, circa 1970, that he wanted to have installed.  This would give him headrests from a safety point of view.  This would be a great idea, and should be achievable because the seats bolt into the wooden floor of an MGA so you can put the bolts anywhere you'd like.  Unfortunately, the MGB seats are one inch wider than MGA seats and simply won't fit into the area between the frame rail at the outside and the tunnel at the inside.  Unless you dismantle the seats, make them one inch narrower, and then install custom upholstery. So we then turned to the old MGA seats from the car.  Seats make a great bench project, so Vince brought the seats to his house to start on them. The seat bottoms are gone except for some rusty metal screen sections that fit on the bottom.  But the wooden portions of the seat bottom is fairly simple, and Vince brought along the seat bottoms from Ray's MGA as a pattern to make new wooden sections. ...

 Darrell is running way behind on body work.  Maybe just as well, Ray's in FL for most of the winter and Vince is headed there soon.  But meantime there are some bench projects being undertaken. The windshield glass is overall in good shape except for a small crack in the lower passenger side corner.  Initial thought was to glue it back together, but the windshield glue we had was dried out.  So instead we separated the corner by removing two screws from that corner and inserted small pieces of rubber tubing behind the loose piece of glass, which holds it in place probably better than glue anyway.  Here's come pictures: This should work fine. The heater box was cleaned up and painted, plus the blower motor confirmed to work.  The heater box had some kind of light undercoating type material on it, we cleaned it up some before painting: Then the wiper motor and mechanism was cleaned up and lubricated and confirmed to work.  The red wire that "parks"...