Hooli wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:26 pm
I'm impressed with how much you've done already.
Most evenings after work I’ve been doing at least 2/3 hours on it. Plus weekends etc. A neighbour commented that he knew I was working late as he sees the workshop lights still on at 9pm most evenings.
It’s coming along. There is work needed to the body mounts before I can fit it back on the chassis, I need to figure out a way to lift the body up to get access to them.
The rest of the welding, such as the sills will be much easier to do once it’s back on the chassis.
I’m going to stick with Antrim Blue, the original colour of the Dutch donor. Bit more interesting than black, plus black wouldn’t go with the nice condition blue interior.
The old body is pretty much stripped out now. I sold the brown interior and a load of other duplicate parts I had to a Maltese Hampshire owner, so spent a considerable amount of time removing the parts and putting them on two pallets for him.
I want to remove the windscreen, headlining, and the front end panels, then it’s ready for the great scrapyard in the sky. Dunno if I’ll get anything for it as they’ll have to collect it with a hiab.
I’ve removed the blue interior and made a start repairing the rear floor where the body mount has been torn out of it, but I’m a southern softy and the weather has been miserable lately, so I find it hard to get the motivation to go down to the garage and get on with the work.
I also built a couple of frames to attach the body to my rollover jig, which is designed to bolt to the hubs of a complete car.
It does work but is a ballache to roll from 90 back to 45 degrees, as I didn’t get the “hubs” in line it doesn’t really work as intended. Need to do some more work on it to get it to roll properly as it’s quite important to be able to adjust the angle to suit whichever part you’re working on.
I'm totally useless at things like this but never ceased to be amazed at the thought, care and work that goes into such projects. Even if I had the skills there's no way that I'd have the patience.
