I have been making slow progress albeit going a bit from one thing to another.
The windscreen frame has to be one of the Roadster's main features doubling up as a roll bar. However I was never very happy with it in the "raw" state. It is bent from a solid steel bar with a slot milled on the inside to take the screen. This left very sharp edges and some hollows in it from the bending process. So I have taken the angle grinder and P38 to it. Looks much more acceptable now.
windscreen_frame2 by
Robin Martin, on Flickr
windscreen_frame1 by
Robin Martin, on Flickr
I have also completed a prototype door. The plan is to use a solid plywood core as in the original Marlin supplied door. However decent plywood is sooooo expensive now I made the proof of concept door from MDF. I have now skinned it in alluminium (left over from the Pembleton build). I am pretty pleased with the result and now happy to take the saw and router to the final plywood version. The latch is from a landrover, modified by removing the outside handle and lock barrel. I was going to use a Morgan latch but they are now over GBP70 each whereas the landrover one is GBP30.
door_prototype1 by
Robin Martin, on Flickr
door_prototype2 by
Robin Martin, on Flickr
Cheers, Robin