Nice car. I have a 67 four seater in 'Broken White'. Ian, yours looks more broken white than royal ivory, but that may just be the digital imaging. I think the four seater looks great with the hood up. A bit different and not as sporty as the two seater, but still impressive.
I read the manual on how to raise the hood and thought it was counter intuitive, but found that it worked fine, do the rear first then the windscreen, both working from the center. Then to remove it you start at the rear and not at the windscreen. Took me 20 minutes to put it up my first time.