My Mk1 Escort 1300 Sport Project

[Lee R]

Thanks mate! Ah, I didn't measure mine as they were all over the place so I didn't trust them! Will have to fit my bonnet and offer the wings up etc!

Cheers

[willid1]

Nice work mate. Can I ask how you knew where exactly to fit the wing band without the bonnet on? As I'm soon to be doing mine

Have you got one of these?

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h248/willid1/JJY%20photos/EscortBodyA4JPEG.jpg

HTH

David

[Lee R]

Thats great thanks mate

[Aaron P.]

cracking work stu...wish mine was that easy to repair at the bubble area....it may help if i had a good welder.......

[mk1GTstu]

cheers for the comments! Bit of an update, been cleaning off all the old underseal off the inner wings, horrible job! fortunately its only on the inner wings & not underneath.
got it down to the original primer, not too bad this side

[mk1GTstu]

was'nt much underseal on this side, splash panel has quite a few pinholes & large holes at the bottom so will need replacing along with driver side A-post

[mk1GTstu]

did a few small repairs on the passenger side A-post





and took axle & rear suspension off

thats it for now

[sidney]

Looking good, nice feeling when you dont find grott! lol
doing a very tidy job.

[Lee R]

Nice one. I scraped some underseal off my inner wing the other day waiting for the weld through primer to dry on a repair panel. Horrid job but thank god they put it on hey

[SHIFTY]

Great stuff mate, fair coming on

[mk1GTstu]

Cheers for all the nice comments! Time for a bit of an update, decided to make a start on the rear end of the car so its strong enough to put on the spit.
Found loads of filler & glassfibre in the spare wheel & tank wells & also in the rear panel & valence.

[mk1GTstu]

Cut off the rear panel as it was to far gone to repair,


O/S rear spring hanger has been patched


some of the filler in the rear panel!

[mk1GTstu]

cut out the tank well



found some more of the woodgrain patches stuck on with sealer!

[mk1GTstu]

cut off the patch on the spring hanger to reveal the original underneath



Plenty of rust!



drilled out spot welds & removed rear bumper mount

[mk1GTstu]

Decided to sort out the spring hanger first, cut off the old one back to good steel & also removed rotten section of boot floor