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Thanks to all of you so far, the concerns do not seem to be unjustified. Would have been too easy.
Worst case would be to damage the car just because of the climate conditions during parking.

Yes indeed.  The grave site was spruced up for the anniversary of his passing.  I did not realise it but we visited the site on the 6th of April.  He died on the 7th of April.  They had some events planned for Sunday the 7th but we could not join in as we drove directly to Glencoe after our Duns visit.  Poor planning on my part.

If you aren’t patient now, you will be! The majority of the parts on my TCST project have been a challenge to get off and/or apart…..thankfully they are simple cars 

Thanks BDA and Brian - I did wonder if that tube would stop air getting to the dash vents. Thanks for the tip about motorcycle fans too, eBay is awash with them at reasonable prices, so looks like a plan for the rebuild.

Made more progress today, deployed the angry spanner on some of the nuts and bolts that would not undo and removed the radiator, air horns, blower, and (just using a socket!) the chin spoiler. Having to jack up the car and remove the n/s front wheel to attack the air horn fixings revealed just how much is going to need doing once I get to the Meccano phase, but I also noticed how much the light shines through the body tub, like a magic lantern. Is this standard added lightness, or has some coating fallen off?

Yup, cool photo.