Steve has been busy in the garage and tells us about fitting his new Day Moulding wings.

I’m only a skinny lad, some might even say emaciated. That’s my style, that’s how I roll.

But weighing in at super light bantam feather weight means when it comes to lifting something heavy, I have to bring in the big guns, aka Mike. Now Mikes not afraid of food, some might even say he embraces it a little too much! Let’s not get into this now though, lets just say he’s considerably stronger than I am. But when Mike’s not around I sometimes find myself stuck with what I’m doing in the garage and unable to continue with what I want to get on with. Many hands make light work, and all that.

And this was the situation I was in recently. What I really wanted to be doing is getting on with fitting up the www.airkewld.com  air ride kit. But the body’s currently on the floorplan and without Mikes help, that’s where it’s staying. So not wanting to waste valuable garage time, I had to find something to get on with, that I could do with the body on.

And this was how I came to find myself fitting up the new Day Moulding fibre glass wings. Not exactly an urgent job at the moment, but a job that needed doing none the less.

I wanted to make sure all the bolt hole’s lined up correctly as I have replaced a few of the mounting points on the car due to rust. I also wanted to make sure the running boards lined up nice a evenly. This is a job I definitely didn’t want to be doing once everything is in paint.

Probably more by luck than judgment, all the bolt hole’s were where they should be, and all four wings bolted straight up. I have to say the quality of these wings is second to none. Everything is exactly where it should be. They fit snugly up against the valances, something repro metal wings never do. Why people would use cheep, metal, pattern wings is beyond me. A set of four Day Moulding’s wing’s come in at £150 which really isn’t much more than the pattern junk. And if you’re lucky that £150 would buy you one NOS wing!

I did have to slightly file out the running board mounting points in the rear wings as I wasn’t happy with the gap under the rear quarter panels. But two minutes with a file and things were where I wanted them. And for about an hour the ‘60 looked like a car again.

My next installment will be air ride related, I can promise you that!