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rusty66 · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: rusty66, one year old

Well I've now had this car a year and at long last it's not Rusty anymore!!!
Some of the wubblers will have may have seen some of these before. So heres the the progress over the last year from day one off the trailer up to yesterday.

Day one, virtually complete car with wrong bonnet that had been sat in a yard for the last 11 years and was very rusty.

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After a days work I was left with these two.

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New floors, narrowed the beam three inches all painted and rebuilt.

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After inspecting the body decided that a lot of work was required. New front end from the bulkhead forwards, replace the a posts due to poor repairs prviously, new heater channels, new rear panel, bumper mounts and engine side trays.

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After checking old repairs to the rear seat floor panel to rear wing repairs I found FIVE layers of poor repairs over the top of each other. After removeing them one by one revealed that there was no need for them at all as the main rear body mounts fitted were all ok!! Why do people do that???
Any way fitted a new rear floor panel, whilst doing so found corrosion in the lower rear window/engine bay rain drip chanel which needed replacing with a good used one.

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The car at this point was basically solid now, but I still had to deal with the roof gutter rot. Do I repair or do I replace the whole thing.
The whole thing!!!!

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Still had to repair the front screen lower corners and the rear lower sections of the rain gutter.

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Had to make new front bumper mounts and remove the europa style mounts.

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and modify the inner wings to clear the narrowed beam.

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Its then been panel beating and repairing all the panels to prep them ready for priming.

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So thats it roughly up to date. Hopefully I can get it fully primed and prepped next month and then painted.
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123stevevw · Status: Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 539

fook me!

Good skills! Nice work
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rusty66 · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject:

Thank you.

adz · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject:

dude im a mucho impressed with ur work, thats beyond skilllzzz!

lookin sweeeet
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Recard · Status: Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 502 Location: Ruardean

Thats epic fair play dude! loving the workmanship!! Cool

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funky_rick · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject: hmmm nice

impressed would be the right word, well done, she is gonna look awesome, good luck with the paint job.
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rusty66 · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject:

Thank you all for your comments.
I will update as and when I have anything to report, but I feel that there will not be a great deal to see until the shell has been painted and build up can be started.

dEdzy · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject:

You has massive balls.

rusty66 · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject:

Brave, stupid or just into deep with rust?
Balls???
Just had to be repaired!!!

Not a lot of work this week.
Spent too long stripping off the paint fronm the rear air vents, modifying a slide hammer to remove the dented center section sanding down the plug welds and priming.

The offending dent.

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Recard · Status: Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 502 Location: Ruardean

Gear box may need a new thrust bearing! Laughing

Loooking good man!! Cool

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