Light show

‘The doors go on today,’ says Nigel Woodward, head of Classic Motor Cars of Bridgnorth where the Bulldog is undergoing the most painstakingof resurrections. It’s not the first time the powered gullwing doors have been on during the Bulldog’s time at CMC. There was the first fit when the doors had been repaired, de-rippled and painted in primer, and the second after any necessary adjustments and corrections had been made. Now, resplendent in their final colour coat, comes their final fit.

As Nigel takes me into the workshop where the Bulldog half-hides under a multicoloured spider’s web of wiring awaiting a home and final taping-up, I see that the rearhinged tail section, also in its final finish, is already attached so its alignment with the doors can be checked. It will have to come off again before the engine and gearbox can go in. Before that happens – and in the next few days as I write on 27 July