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Great work guys, nothing quite like fresh primer. Always a hint of what's to come.

Thanks Devilrod. The best part was seeing all those dents disappear thanks to Dave and his trusty metal slapper

Some more progress.

Bit of a disappointing setback, when what looked like a minor rust issue on the box section above the left front door ended up being worse than what we thought. To fix properly meant out with the roof lining, which meant both front and back windscreens out.



















Some more repairs on the guards. The way the repair sections were cut and shaped caused a lot more ework for Dave then what they should have. I can't see why they cant make the piece with a horizontal cut on top

I cant believe the trouble some people go to bodge things up. The bog work in the door header was incredible.they even made the lip that holds the rubber out of bog. It took five hours to make the folded sections and weld it in. I bet it took longer the shonky way. It will be a better job now the screens are out.

The good thing is there was fark all rust when the screens came out. That was my biggest fear.

I hope the screens don't leak when they put them back in, Tim. Seeing as I'm sure they didn't leak before

Gee guys is this a freshen up or a rebuild...

once again the things you don't see till things are stripped propperly, few extra bucks now but worth it in the long run

WayneXG95 wrote:Gee guys is this a freshen up or a rebuild...

We're not touching the mechanicals or interior, so safe to say it's a tidy up, though a bit more involved than originally thought


Some more progress

Some minor repairs to outer right sill





The left sill was a different story, with a fair few pinholes of rust turning up when Dave sanded it back. As this car is going to be a keeper, it was decided to replace the outer sill, rather than doing a quicky repair







Minor surface rust on inner sill. Looks worse than what it was

On another note, Dave in his spare time is restoriing a Ducati 900 SS Darmah.

Here's the bodywork and paint he did on the tins. Amazing stuff

Moving along nicely. Brings back more than a few memories for me...

Dave has spare time...???

Cal wrote:

WayneXG95 wrote:Gee guys is this a freshen up or a rebuild...

We're not touching the mechanicals or interior, so safe to say it's a tidy up, though a bit more involved than originally thought

it's a repair rust and respray done propperly

Its nice to see all the rust removed from some sills rather than just the bare minimum that seems to be the current trend.

Nice work.

I could tell by the pinholing that the sill was buggered. The one thing i know is these rust replacement panels need a heap of work to make fit. The guard bottoms were a joke. The joggle where the outer sill spot welds to the inner was non existent. I had to put the joggle in by hand on my anvil. It was a tedious job. Once that was sorted out it was pretty straight forward.
I hate to be a new guy to panel work trying to fit these parts.

Yeah, the way the guard bottom repair panels are cut, you barely use half of it, then have to make up new pieces that the repair panel doesn't cover



The sill finished

Pete! lucky u got the right man for the JOB!!!! looking good guys.