Been ages since I updated this:
Car has been in and out of the garage for a while, making space for paid jobs coming in.
View of underneath
As I mentioned before, someone had cut the heater panel out of the car, is should look like this
So dad has been making a repair panel. It has had to be made in 3 pieces to fit it in there, the first part
This was replicated the other side before making a cardboard pattern for the main panel
Before a plate was made up
And fitted into the car
The rear welding got done then, along with centralising the fuel tank filler hole.
Rear quarter, seam sealed
Heater bulkhead now fitted. Anyone know where I can get some dumdum sealing compound?
The filler neck for the fuel tank relocated. There was a slight error with this so dad inserted a blank plate with a hole then welded the original fuel filler hole onto that. It gave him some more spexibility with movement along with better strenth.
Underneath
One of the fuel tank tabs had to be cut down to fit too.
One of the things holding the project up before the respray has ben the final shaping of the scuttle where it meets the wing tops. The wings from the donor car looked better than the ones that came with the new shell so I wanted to use them, but they were welded to the sill instead of being attached by the usual self tapping screws. Being in a polytunnel meant we couldnt grind them off so we got a chance on the weekend to look at them. The drovers side came off with a few small holes drilled, the passenger side was cut as close to the base as possible
Both wings are pretty tidy and more importantly, are unrepaired originals. The others are rubber bumper items with bodged repairs so i'm glad I swapped them. They just need some localised repairs.
Upon removing them, it showed just how far gone the donor car was:
Hope to have more progress soon...
will be nice to see this finished. Lord Steve is selling a 3.9 for £50 in the for sale section ( sounds like a bargain to me )
