ticking the days off to the big one

Good luck Lenny. Keep looking at it, you'll find something to do.

All the best hope it goes well

Best of luck, hope it goes well

Dave

Best of luck. Any pics for us to paw over?
I guess the ones in your archive are from ages ago. A couple of comments but you may have changed these long ago;
MK 050 - i was told to fit at least 4 of those clamp thingies, 2 on each side so there is no risk of cable pull through (1 each side to clamp, the second one is for redundancy).
MK 146 - will bonnet cut out need trimming so you dont fall foul of min rad check?

Looks like a nice car. Hope it goes well.