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Category: Bodywork

Boot floor and rear valance fitting

Slightly slow progress over the last few weeks as the world gets turned upside-down by COVID-19, but hopefully a silver lining of being housebound for the foreseeable future is that I’ll have a bit more free time to spend on…

Boot floor removal

I’ve been chopping the old boot floor to bits over the last fews weeks as I’ve replaced other bits around it, so I thought I’d collect a few photos together into a single post for reference. I deliberated a little…

Rear chassis leg repair part 2

With a free weekend ahead of me I decided to carry on with the chassis leg repair, and first order of business was to finally remove the rotten part of the old one. As mentioned in the first part, I…

Rear chassis leg repair part 1

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…

Outer sill fitting

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…

More rear wheel arch fun

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…

Rear outer wheel arch removal

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…

Rear wing removal

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…

Outer sill removal

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…