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The body panels are on, the wiring is in, and the engine is back together – Bulldog’s restoration enters the home straight

JOHN SIMISTER

‘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…

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