Yes, I know, it's been an awfully long while since an update on this blog, and quite a lot has happened in the world since the last report in 2019! But, Project Merlot is still on the road, albeit with a new custodian for the last few years.
The good old Merlot has had a bit of welding, it's had a suspension change, plus a few other tweaks in the recent years, and latest work was a replacement steering rack, so no more power steering fluid puddles, hopefully. But as well as the inevitable mechanical works I can also report the Merlot has now been thrashed on the Autobarn, and taken on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, see evidence below.
Several of us have a love-hate relationship with the car, (some more hate than love I think) but it's a survivor, and while we fear more rust issues are approaching, who knows what happens next.
