Apologies for a lack of posting the last few months.

Current state of play:

• car arrived without incident
• car has been completely stripped to components
• body shell is due to be sent off to Minus Paint to be chemically stripped in the next week or two
• both engine frames are too rusted to be used; new ones are on their way
• most of the plating is back
• most of the sandblasting and powder coating is done and awaiting pickup
• Engine, gearbox and diff are still together while I decide what iteration of gearbox and diff I will go with

Disassembly has shown the car to be surprisingly complete, but there was a lot of rust on most of the components. The body shell has had some "repairs" done and has been sprayed with some sort of undercoat. The quality of the metalwork on the repairs is poor however. They have made their own panels and once the paint is off the full extent of the damage to the shell will become apparent.

So now there will be a couple of months waiting for the body to be stripped. In the interim I'll be collecting and sorting all of the components I've sent out and I can then commence rebuilding the various subassemblies. The plating, despite a lot of rust, has come up very well.

More, and some pictures, soon.