Restoration

On the lower part of the sills on each side of the Europa Twin cam there is a metal strip and a fiberglass valence. The stock color of the valence is a very bright metal flake silver. Kind of a 70’s

The hood and the trunk lid or boot and bonnet posed no real interesting challenge. The steel engine venting grates took a lot of scrubbing with a wire brush to clean up. A rattle can spritz of chrome paint made them

I found that I had three electrical problems. The interior light would blow the fuse when I switched it on. The turn signals did not work, and the third very weird one was where some of the gauge lights would go

I started thinking about applying some DC volts to the Europa to see if there where any wires that had smoke in them. You know how that goes; you hook up one end of the battery cable solidly to the battery

There is a great movie called “A Brilliant Mind” in which Russell Crowe plays a genius who goes a little wacko but still comes up with an award winning mathematical equation while he was in a bar chasing women. The equation

I finally got the new dash and new crash pad in place and screwed into place. There are several stainless steel screws that hold the wood dash in place along the front. Unlike an Elan where the dash is just bolted

I got the crash pad back from my interior guy Ken. As usual, he did a terrific job. He ended up not using the sewed in seam that came with the kit. He instead sewed his own using the extra material