My money pit

[wetandwindy2]

nice one an end in sight now looks good as well

[IYK000]

I take my hat of to all you guys that live in a country that has salt on the roads we dont see rust like that to often here to one and all that are saving cars well done


John

[andym]

Great work...Its going to be mint in the end...

[BROADSTRIPE]

i take my hat off to you the car looks fantastic .cant wait to see some paint on it. excellent

[lynx]

fantastic work!

[mk2ddc]

Nice progress

[mike77cos]

Great work

[Oldbloke]

Here we go again.....
Had a call from Paul who has at last found some free time to go for the final push. All of the "fiddly bits" underneath now done and the shell is off the jig.











Work left to do:
Rear valance
Replace rear parcel shelf section (6" speaker holes!)
Spot weld all replaced panels as original

Spotwelder arriving from HSS Hire today to blat the shell. Hoping the next week will see the shell ready to come back to Dorset!

[Oldbloke]

Once again, thanks for the encouragement, chaps. Paul was working darn sarf this week and popped in today for a natter. He talks about the work like its no particular bother at all - I just know it would have been too big a job for me so I'm sooooo glad its in his hands. He says he has a couple of days next week to spend on all the fiddly bits that needs doing on her bottom
After that, it will be the spot welder to join all the flappy bits together again - the shell could be back in the Oldbloke's garage very soon!

Mr BadNews: your gloating gets on my t*ts
Well - a third of my shell is now Aussie...but I didn't have to worry about scary microbes jumping out and assaulting MY personal bits I think you should build a log cabin on your ranch and offer all us guys free holidays

Graham: Can't Xpack it now 'cos I have to do justice to Mr Andrew's nosecone
Besides - wouldn't want to show yours up

[grum]

still say X pack it ................................. just dont take it to Tesco after its done

coming on nice Chris

[badnews]

well mate i take my hat off to you again i have been down the expressed steel route and they charge like a foooking rhino ahahhaa. anyway keep them piccs coming it reminds me of all the work i havent got to do to mine ahhahaahha. thank god i moved down under it makes playing with old escorts a hell of a lot easyer. respect to your welder chap he is doing you proud and you will have a good strong car when finished.

[RS2000EXPRESS]

Another piece back to how it should be.....keep it going as I'm always looking forward to what you have done next.

Your doing a marvelous job.

Tim.

[wetandwindy2]

the joys of restoring but look on the bright side when its ready you'll know that its mint

[Oldbloke]

ANOTHER UPDATE FROM PAUL:
There's hardly a single inch of bodywork that doesn't need replacing Here we go with the spare wheel well.









The offside spring hanger was looking rough as well......









But once again Paul pulls it off.............

[Oldbloke]

gee. for a minute i thought you were going to X pack it

Yes, very funny
Actually - that decision was on the cards right up until the day he started it, but was rejected for two reasons:
1. I couldn't bear seeing those front wings being cut into - they were the best panels on the whole car
2.Them X-pack arches wouldn't last 5 minutes in Tesco's car park