Very cool mate.

Now get to typing and bring us up to speed, I'm getting lost with all this time travel between the 1990's and now

Oh my ... how embarassing [:I], thank you TCR for the sublte correction:

My above post should have said 2008, man 1998 must have been a good year!

Ah, makes more sense

Big_Gav D40! Great find mate. It still amazes me how prestigious these are in the UK. Very cool.

 
Thanks Gav ... the boys at the tyre shop couldn't understand why I was so excited!  Neither does the missus.
 
Get you car up in projects mate, I enjoyed watching it on PF, then it stopped ... would love an update!

Well 2008 was a busy year for me (and the year after that, and that ... but thats all to come).
Long story short; one young boy getting bigger, away from home for 5+ months training for work, home for baby boy number two, one month later move out of home into a renter during a full house extension/renovation, shift work ... busy busy ... oh and no sleep . Anyway we're here about the car ...

Whilst I was away during 2008 it was pretty much parked (half ouside and under a cover), but in between a trip home I managed to dust her off and show her at the RSOCVic Concourse in the (AUS) winter of 2008 ...

(I knicked this picture ... thank you)
and scored one of these  ...

 

And that was 2008 ... in 2009 I spent even less time with the car (if thats possible!)
At the start of '09 we moved out of our house and into a renter with a v young family (a two year old and a one month old!) for our house renovation/extension ... our timing is impeccable! We're known for alway biting off more than you can chew ... then chew like hell!
The car was securily parked in the garage in the rental house started once in a while and rarely driven ... so I'll post a couple of pics of the project instead ...

We doubled our (little) 1920's brick clinker house in size and I scored a garage ! ...



Now I have somewhere to park, and a bench to work on!
 

Love it mate, what did you paint the floor with? can you get it in other colours? and how much did you use? and approx cost?   

Hi Tony, I had choices with the floor ... use concrete paint or get the company that did my hardwood floors to seal it, two pac it, add a decal (a big Cosworth please) then clear coat it ... the difference was a couple of hundred (for paint) to three plus thousand dollars. 
 
Synthetic tiles (dark grey and light grey chequered) would have looked awesome ... four to five thousand dinos though, so ... I used the paint, but it peeled and stained within the first week.  It doesn't worry me though ... I paint furniture in there, and drop the oil from the car and I dont stress about getting the floor dirty.  A proper clean and some more paint and it will be back to new.
 
The paint is available in heaps of colours ... I was boring and chose grey (matches my grey powder coated garage furniture).

OK, I've been inspired to try and bring this thread up to date, so ...
 
The door light never worked when I opened the drivers door, and the warning module always shows it as open. So first place I went to was the switch for door open/close at the door frame and sure enough ...
 

 
it had been disconnected and out it fell!

For some reason the power wire for it (brown/red) had been 'robbed' for something else ... I'm thinking alarm system but its all messy and a bit wierd (?) ... see the red/brown has been cut and sent out as black aftermarket for something else ...

 
So out came my gear ...

 
and I reinstalled the switch back to the original harness' red/brown power ...

 
Good news is my cabin light works ...
 
 
... but the warning module still doesn't 'see' the door .

I have since been informed that I need to go inside the door, and sort the micro switch at the latch, still yet to be done.

Something else that need to be done was the jack cover in the boot. It was bowed, faded and cracked in several places.  For those that don't know Cosworths, this is very common and replacement ones command big dollars overseas.
 

 

 
So I sought a local solution ... down to the Dashboard Drs for a vacuumed wrapped fibreglassed repair ...
 



 
Not quite the original colour ... but I'm trying to build a road car that I'm not stressed about using, so in this case function over form was the requirement .