The roof of my GT has always been one of the poorest areas in all of the years I’ve owned it. When I first bought it, the “Webasto” roof (it was actually a Weathershields model), was in tatters and held…
At last, the much delayed “final” part of the left hand side bodywork rebuild! In the last installment I had just fitted the new wheel arch assembly, so the next job was to clean up the welds, and then strip…
Time for some bodywork, then. I’ve actually been plugging away at this for a couple of weeks now, alternating with the engine work to keep things interesting – really good to confront this and get things back on track at…
This post should have been documenting the triumphant conclusion to the major bodywork repairs on the left hand side of my car, completion of which would have set me up for getting on with the last few bits (roof replacement,…
Following on from my last post on the gearbox crossmember changes, here is a quick write-up on the other important job in this area – increasing the height of the front of the transmission tunnel to accept the taller R380…
Quick update on the passenger side body repairs – still moving steadily forwards! The bottom of the A-post was suffering from a combination of rust and another dodgy previous repair from yours truly, so I cut it all back to…
With the main panel replacements finally finished on the right hand side of the car, I wasted no time in moving onto the other side before I lost my momentum. I’m not going to be posting too many updates about…
Yep. It’s trying to remove all these stickers from Heritage panels – probably about 50 hours of labour in these alone 🙂
After weeks of preparation, fitting, re-fitting and adjustments I’m happy to have finally got the offside rear wing fully welded up at last. It’s such a large panel, which joins onto no less than 6 other panels – all of…
Another weekend of lockdown rolls around, so what else is one to do but work on the car again! I planned to finally finish welding up that back wing, but annoyingly I ran out of both welding wire and gas…