Thanks Everyone for the nice comments.
Have got some more shots (still phone camera)
Gives a better impression of the colour (and more complete)
Stephen, I know you're planning Yellow but I can assure you that I'd pretty much decided on this in about Jan 2005 (which was a little while before we met)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure we wont end up with the same stripes, although richardferguson's suggestion to leave it has a lot of appeal.
My brother had his 40th in the shed and need to make the space so I arrived to see it pretty much finished.
Have to do something about being able to drive it now (and maybe lose some girth so my lap times aren't too much higher due to friction on the steering wheel)
re-assembly
The cold - or rather glaring and Hot - light of day
LargeBelly