December 25st, 2002
Noting new to report for long time; a bit disappointed over the wrong colour.
But; finally mounted the last parts on the engine; oil filter, camshaft bearing, water pump, and oilpressure- and water temperature meters.
Now it is just to gather my strong friends and lift the body onto the chassis. As we're going away for the rest of the Christmas holidays, this won't happened until the start of January 2003.
Have a nice new years eve, all of you!

September, 2002
YES!!!!!
We made it before the winter, and did paint the car yellow!
Though not quite the correct yellow colour, we will give the car a new spray with the correct colour next spring.

August/early September, 2002
Finally the plastic thing start looking like a car again..
We have filled the body with spray filler, grinded and filled again. And; now it is just before the final painting! Impatient as I am, I've been waiting for this since beginning of June; now time finally has come. To see pictures of the latest progress, click here

During the last month I have also sold the MGB GT, an instead bought a 1961 Triumph Herald 1200 Saloon, converted to a Tristan Convertible. The wife liked the car so much that I just had to buy it.
I also bought a 'new' Formula Ford, this time a 1983 Royale RP36. This the wife didn't like, so the car was sold to Sweden quickly... It had a quite interesting history though; it was sold directly from the Royale factory in England to a racing shop in the USA, then later imported to Sweden to be used at a formula driving school. Then taken home to Norway in february 1989. After the car was sold to Sweden, I found out that just this car was the last Royale ever produced... Well; at least the wife is satisfied...

Early June, 2002
Well, long time - no job on the Europa? Not exactly.

I have done a lot of small things, mainly on the body. Has also taken time to finish our boat project, and the 16ft day cruiser was put ashore on june, 20th, just in time to make it to the mid-summer day (or; night...).
Together with a friend; Olav the ex-carpainter, I have grinded and filled (well actually; he did the job, I was just looking...) the front, roof and engine cover of the care.

A friend in Gjövik, a middle-sized norwegian town not too far away from me, has a S1 Europa ready for inspection, guess this will hurry me up a bit..

Pictures can be found by clicking here:

April 28th, 2002
Had to move my site from Geocites.com, as people visiting the site passed the allowed free download rate of 3GB/month - and made Geocities close my site for the remaining of that month....
I hope this means that the site is popular, and that you people like to read about my car - and the progress I (slowly) make... Thank you to you all, folks ;-)
 
 

Easter vacation, 2002
Hmm, finally a lot of progress.
With the help from a friend I got the new renovated engine and gearbox back in the chassis, and mounted the drive shafts and lower link arms.
Now I'll have to teach myself how to fill, prime and paint GRP. I have talked to a number of paint shops, but no one wants to paint fibre glass. So; I better have to learn it by myself.
A couple of pictures are here.

February, 2002
Well, gearbox finally back in the garage; though; I am a bit worried. The old man fixing the 'box had some problem mounting the inventory of the gearbox. As I had to buy a new gearbox, he had to turn the crown wheel and pinion, but then they didn't fit into the housing. So; he had to machine more room, as well as making the crown wheel a little smaller. This resulted in the fact that the drive shaft on one of the gearbox side is 5 mm closer to the housing than the other side. As far as I can see, this will cause problems fitting the inboard drive shaft. I guess I'll have to remove app 5 mm on the inboard drive shaft to get to the hole for the locking pin...
However, with the gearbox back in the garage; I'm looking forward to further progress with the car.