Its a mystery really. He loved the car, but never cared for it - never cleaned the interior, never washed it, never even wiped the seagull poop off it. Captain Carnage did work when it was broken, but evidently nothing proactive. Oh well.
Heat shields back in the engine bay:
An original stud
And my rivnut version. No one will ever know
Most D2s have one or more of these plastic trim pieces missing, but oddly this one had all four.
Power steering pipes back on. As I mentioned before, I think this had new pipes earlier in its life so they were de-rusted and protected with adhesive lined heatshrink sleeve. In hindsight, putting them back on at this point turned out to be a mistake. Check the state of the two brake pipes in the lower right of this pic...
I knew the brake pipe on this corner was pretty manky so replaced it with the one from Sergey's
I then started stripping off the plastic coating from the two rear brake pipes to get to the oxidisation underneath, which had only really become obvious once I'd moved the pipe in the previous pic. These were really bad with the oxidisation going back several inches.
There's also some lumpiness halfway along the pipes so I decided to replace these two as well. Slightly annoying that the power steering pipes were now in the way
The rear pipes weren't too bad (and also
really hard to change!) so I cleaned these up and painted them. I've done this treatment with the three pipes I've replaced, and the original front right, as they all have oxidisation at the wheel arch end, but only for an inch or two.
The pipes are fine once all the white dusty material has been removed - just like a sandblasted finish, so they take a coat of Rustoleum quite well.
