Thanks chaps
The final coat of lacquer is quite heavily orange peeled. A textured finish
presumably because I deliberately put it on as thick & wet as I dared to give me plenty of depth to polish into. I'm now dreading wet sanding it again in case I can't recover the shine with the cutting compound! Worst case scenario, I just spray it again, so not the end of the World. I'll give it a day or two to settle before touching it.
The steel around the rear window opening's quite wobbly, but remembering how we struggled to fit the rubber & glass, it's probably just 50 years worth of people bashing it about! Never really noticed it until it was gloss. I can live with it, but it looks like a bad filler job, so maybe a few very simple pinstripes might work.
The upholstery guy obviously didn't want the job so said it'd cost over 400 quid to strip & recover the tunnel -but to be fair, it's a big, time consuming job. I needed a hot air gun anyway
I'll give it a good scrub & look for some vinyl reviver -I used something from Frost Auto years ago on the old Jag seats in my Moggy Minor. The edges all need re-gluing too & because it's glued over a layer of Dynamat, it's very lumpy & bumpy -I'm wondering if it could be smoothed out with one of those little wallpapering rollers.
Don't suppose anyone fancies a little side project if I supply the materials & some cash?!