I decided to take a break from metal work today (and give my neighbours a break from the noise!), and tackled a job I’ve been putting off for a while: removing the dashboard and instruments. I’ve never attempted to take…
With the sill area complete, today I turned my attention to the back corner of the car and started to tackle the end of the chassis leg / rear spring hanger section. I noticed when I was cutting out the…
As promised, the next job to tackle was getting the new outer sill panel fitted to the driver’s side of the car. Technically this is not the hardest panel to weld in, from an accessibility/complexity perspective at least, but it’s…
It’s been a bit of a dispriting time since my last post. Having cut the bulk of the old outer wheel arch off, I thought it would be a small matter of just cleaning things up a bit and then…
I’ve been deliberating about replacing the outer wheel arch since it looks such a mess, but it’s solid enough and won’t be particularly visible when the car is finished, so I could probably live with it. However, as I’ve removed…
I ended the last post mentioning that I hadn’t been able to mock-up the new rear wing fitment to help check sill alignment, so today’s task was to try to get the old rear wing out of the way to…
I’ve had a couple of weekends away from the car due to being away on a work trip, but I was back on it today, and the next job was taking off the rest of that outer sill panel. I…
At the end of the previous episode on this I had determined that part of the outer sill was going to have to come off to enable me to finish removing the inner wing, so I cracked straight on with…
After stripping the car down I’d made an initial assessment of the various other panels I was going to need to get things started, and placed a (frighteningly large) order for them. The first batch arrived today, so for a…
Striking whilst the iron is hot, today I headed straight for the worst bit of rust armed with power tools, attacking the two panels inboard of the off side inner rear wing. To try to retain as much integrity in…