my first mk2

[pinto48s]

it makes you wonder what some people are thinking, what was the need for those patches welded on the inner wings!!
Surely peeling the sticker off would've been easier :-)
Lucky they weren't hiding anything too nasty

[Hairball]

You dont hang around nice to see you getting straight on with it keep up the good work and speed

[south west restorations]

ur getting on there m8
be woth it in the end.

[13sport]

never got much done this evening just tidying up the inner wing topos a bit more very happy with what ive found, just need a bit more tidy up with power file as grinders a bit of a rough finish


i feel so much better now ive got origional strut tops and tidy inner wings. hopefully wing rails and splash panels done on saturday

[13sport]

passenger side as it was

i couldnt understand why someone had done this but i found something that gave me a clue


says it all doesnt it. anyway should end up a nice panel no rot on this side

[13sport]

finished this off tonight forgot to get a pic of it cleaned up

next i thought the brake servo strengthener area looked a bit poor so cut it out

let a new piece into inner wing and il clean the strengthener up and refit it.

i was just about to go home when i looked at the 2 big patches welded onto the top part of the inner wings and decided after a good look on the underside that there couldnt be a great deal wrong with the origional panel underneath so drivers side first

2 small holes will cut out and let a piece in after i removed the rest of the patch and power filed all the welds down.

[eagie]

Making good progress there keep up the good work mate!!

[13sport]

just need to keep chipping away at it! really should have finished the van before starting the car but hey ho

[SHIFTY]

As said looks a good project you have there and she's coming on well, all the best with the resto!

[13sport]

took delivery of some panels today, better quality than i expected to be honest, steel seems to be harder and thicker than some of the stuff i got from my mk1 from cleveland panels but what the fit will be like i dread to think lol.

front panel sat on just for show and to make me feel better!
made a start on drivers side lower inner wing/bumper mount area, this appeared to be better than the passenger side but turned out to be nearly as bad so fabbed up the thick piece in one bit and half of the thinner outer tonight again pics actually look worse than it looks (which is strange as pics usually look better lol)

will try and finish this tommorow evening and hang the doors and bonnet ready to fit the wing rails and wings

[13sport]

Been at work all weekend but did manage to order a new front panel, pair of wing rails and pair of splash panels as they have had previous poor repairs. Removed front panel this evening was a right faff on as it had been gas welded on at some point in it's life!

[13sport]

got a couple of hours in this afternoon managed to repair the lower inner wing where the anti roll bar bracket bolts go through chassis leg, the outer was crusty and the thicker inner part was to so first i made a thick piece up

then made a section for the outer (lower inner wing)

pics not great but nice and solid again now. I then cut out the small crusty section on the drivers side strut top, forgot to get a pic of this but will add tommorow.

[13sport]

sorry forgot to ad the pic in there



hopefully the rest off the car will follow suit but with underseal that thick and grotty surely il find some nastys underneath it all??

[13sport]

It was in my budget and half the average price a 2door project car sells for these days. Anyway got a couple of hours in yesterday after work spend an hour and 45 mins with the electric chisel scraper removing all the underseal off the pass inner wing with quite good results, the bits that look red rusty do appear to be just red dry rust and the bits that were caked in underseal are very good so far infact good as new, hers an idea of the ammount of the stuff on the drivers side

a rough guide to the thickness of it must be between 5 and 6mm thick

What it looks like now still needs more work with wire wheel in the grinder

i swept up the garage floor after and this is of the pass side inner wing only! could have filled a shoe box with it, put the ear deffenders there for comparison. Bit crusty around the anti roll bar bracket mounts hopefully will have that fettled after work tommorow and tick one chassis rail and innerwing off

[pinto48s]

You,ve got the makings of a nice car then
Good luck with it.
The guys on here love pictures so make sure you take plenty :-)
Geoff