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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:13 am 
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Martin is chopping out the rusty rear quarter areas, rear sill sections and offside rear wheel arch and welding in new sections to be taken from a shell over at his place.
The front screen is cracked and needs to come out any way for some rust around the roof / screen edge to be cut out and new metal welding in.
I dont know where to have it painted yet, I want a proper job (at a price point) and its previous paint jobs have been poor which is why I have to take it back to metal

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:16 am 
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Forgot to say, its mechanically sound, its been looked after by Martin since it was Collins (Gottogoturbo) car. The turbo may be getting on for a rebuild but it drove onto the trailer ok!

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:46 pm 
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It got to Martins OK
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 5:49 pm 
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Gosh, twelve days to get to Martins from your place Dave :shock: :wink:

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:39 pm 
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That's zafiras for you Don lol

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 2:31 pm 
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Meanwhile over in Blackburn...................works begins
First part to be cut out
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starting to weld in pieces made up from scratch
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then zinc oxide primered
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 2:33 pm 
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Really chuffed, Martin has done a brilliant job

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:01 pm 
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Good to see, and all credit to you Dave for persevering with restoring a car which most would have broken for parts

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:34 am 
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Just had it about a year now and the removing and stripping is finished and the repair has started.
It makes it worth while when the first forward steps are taken.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:17 pm 
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Excellent work on this so far, can't wait to see the finished result.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:16 am 
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Next session over in Blackburn yesterday
Martin gets to work on the sills
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It doesnt look good
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It gets worse
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The arch lip is next
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Then the other side
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And the rear quarter pocket
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ah well................if it was easy everyone would be doing it lol
It goes to show you never know what is behind the sills!!

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:39 pm 
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Yuk!

So....what's the plan now?

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:06 am 
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Its going to go for sand blasting in order to get at the hard to reach areas and to see how far to cut back and replace
The glass needs to come out so I can remove the last of the paint and there are a couple of holes at the top of the screen, apart from that all is good lol !!!

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:30 am 
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The sills on my black 205 were worse than that about 7 years ago when I bought it. I bodged it to go through an MOT (cut out the worst & welded in new but some light rust was left where I couldn't access) expecting to get a couple of years out of the car before breaking. The bodge is still going now, not got much worse inside although the outer patch rusted again where I didn't bother painting it properly.

These cars are built from much better metal than the old Dagenham dustbins I played with in my youth.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:03 pm 
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The glass was taken out last week so it was back to Blackburn on Sunday and the rust around the top of the windscreen and down the A pillars was addressed
Cleaned out the channel
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drilled out the spot welds
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chopped out the rust and ground back to good metal
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welded in good metal and tidied it up
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