Also the door panels are installed, carpet on inner sills, and rubber trim installed around door opening:
Seats are done and ready to be installed, a friend ended up donating some better used foam cushions which worked out just fine:
Interestingly, the red piping didn't line up real well from seat back to seat bottom until we swapped the seat backs between the two seats - wonder if they had been switched before? They line up much better this way, passenger seat on left is well aligned while driver's seat on right is about 3/8 inch off. Very comparable to our other MGB's.
When we had the tires mounted we were told the tire shop could no longer balance wire wheels, their newer wheel balancer might mess up the splines. They claimed this is a problem with all newer wheel balancers. We had been given an old manual wheel balancer but knew we were missing some pieces of it - called the donor and got the missing pieces. This thing works real well, here's a picture of the old Snapon model WBK-2:
It even came with a good selection of weights. So today we got all four wheels balanced plus adjusted the front end to 1/8 inch toein. We're getting very close to getting this thing on the road! Unfortunately we need seats installed to drive it, and it's much easier to put in carpet and side panels in wheel wells without the seats in place. Patience, patience.
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