Well its been a while since i posted Ive had many thousands of fun miles in this car but last year engine troubles kicked in and eventually i had to take it off the road.
I have built a 1956cc "quick" engine heres it on my test stand.
But the starter doesnt have enough to to spin it over as its high compresson 10.8:1 I do believe. So I turned my attention to the car
A few weeks ago i began a resto. This is copied from my local club site so it looks like alot in one go. But i will update periodicly after this first post.
Front left inner wing had this rather large hole in it. At least it was 1 less bolt to undo when i took the wing off
Few more photos. The front of the heater channel is well shot.
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and you can see the gutter for the bonnet seal has quite abit missing.
More progress today, Fuel tank out offside wing off to reveal lots of nice new holes. Where the inner wing meets the floor and door pillar is gone. I think it was made of tin foil. Heres a few photos I took today. None show the real damage but its a start.
A mate popped round today to help decided where it wants chopping and welding ect.
Nearly got the front beam off this evening too.
Turns out the lower front has been welded and fillerd before.
So thats been cleaned up and removed
Yeah lots of work but ive got some nice sheets of steel and as im off work in between resting my leg I potter in the workshop.
Been making bumper brackets as the old ones were made of tin foil.
And both sides are going to need bumper mounts so i started making those today.
and yes i know it looks like ive marked out holes and then drilled in different places. But it is right honestly
Ive made another of those brakets and welded captive nuts on the back.
Then a mate from the local club came round for a few hours this evening and started making me some new panels up. Id made a template up so he worked from that and what was left o tneh two front ends i have.
Here he is at work
And the roughly shaped panel
then removing more rot
And finaly today using templates ive made panels for the otherside and started removing parts from the complete front end I have to repair my car.