Category: Bodywork

In today’s episode of ‘Jobs I wish I’d done properly last time’, the rest of the offside floorpan and inner sill are cut out and replaced with new items. When I replaced this floorpan previously many years ago, I had…

Back at the front, it’s time to give this footwell some attention. I had previously patched up this area in the past, and I did make a half-hearted attempt at cleaning up what was there to make it look a…

After a short break waiting for deliveries of new panels, and enjoying a bit of spring sunshine, I’m back into the garage, and equiped with (hopefully) all the remaining panels I’ll need to finish the job. Next task is to…

As you may have seen in my last post, one of the worst horrors still lurking beneath my car is this front chassis (frame) rail on the offside corner, so I decided to tackle that whilst I await panels for…

It’s very fair to say that this was not one of the most exciting or enjoyable stages of the project so far, but I knew I had to confront it at some point, so I bit the bullet and got…

Right then, barring any more forgotten surprises when I look underneath properly, this is the last seriously bad part of the bodyshell I need to fix. I did a lot of work in this area 25 years ago when I…

This is a bit of an important milestone for me – fingers crossed this will be the final major new panel that I need to weld in before the shell is “complete” (but let’s face it there are not many…

So with the roof and old scuttle removed and everything cleaned up, it’s on with the new panels. The scuttle is only available as a Heritage panel in a one-piece pressing with the windscreen frame, but since the rot in…

Here we go then, this is just about the last major bit of rotten metal anywhere on the car, so it’s quite a milestone to be cutting this lot out. The edges of the front scuttle panel where it meets…