part 4 this is the sort of shit I have to work with, this is a quiet day too 20210907_135632.jpg Got my dad's car ready for paint by the deadline, it was tight but there were no comedy all night sessions. 20210908_133134.jpg restored a pair of roof interior lights for the blue car 20210908_193553.jp...

part 3 The Blue car is coming together fast but not fast enough 20210901_100858.jpg I simply cannot paint a complete car in my workshop quickly whilst I am opposite the recycle chaps.. just too much dust. Anyway steve the body said he would paint dad's 1972 Range rover if I did all the prep and the ...

part 2 tonight Engine cold start went uneventfully. engine has not been run in best part of 6 years. Car was last MoT'ed in 2005. 20210813_104228.jpg Drove itself out of the workshop, well I say it drove itself I was sat in the driver seat and operating the controls. 20210814_110023.jpg I can confir...

Not updated this thread on months, must try fucking harder etc Soooooooooooo. Sunday afternoon and I am a few beers down, let me go through what I have been up to. Drivers door, which is the original but repaired frame and a new land rover skin saw a lick of paint 20210803_190026.jpg which even I wa...

I used this stuff to shield heat from a VM turdo unit https://www.carbuilder.com/uk/embossed-aluminium-heat-shield-1000mm-x-1000mm Very very good, easy to bend into what ever shape you need. If you do go down the electric fan route, try avoid removing the engine fan like Hooli said already. Morons i...

This Steve the Body, is he a relation of Elle? :o :lol: He has a son who is the same age as my twins and they all went to the same school. My wife crashed her car because she was busy watching steve walking down the road. she admitted it too :lol: Ever since then he has been Steve the Body - he is ...

thanks all folks, dad had a pacemaker fitted today. home again tomorrow.

I fully expect that he will feel like a new man.... fnarr

Part 4 and the last for now One of the nicer things about my workshop is the 1/2 mile walk across fields to get there from home. 20210720_100333_02.jpg drivers door skin had some gouges etc that I hadn't spotted until the first coat of primer went on, these have now been corrected and the last coat ...

Part 3 Doddering onwards through acres of uos body panels with a World of existing repaints and filled sections has taken me an age. This is 1 month after I started. Front wings birmabrite rather than plastic and the rebuilt drivers door; prepped, primed, flatted, filled, flatted, primed, flatted, f...

part 2 Painting anything in my workshop is flippin hard work. the environment is hardly sterile nor temperature controlled. I work opposite the dustiest non-recycling operation ever. This means that when I paint I need to really wait for each coat to go off - i.e. 24h before flatting back the dust a...