After a couple of months looking around, I finally found a good, cheap bonnet. The one on the car is fine, but it’s the single bulge type, I need the later double bulge type to fit the engine in. It was delivered yesterday, very well packaged: Opening it up, it’s all in good condition, although […]
I ended up taking the rear deck (rear windscreen base) off on Sunday. It started with an idle scratch around at a couple of rust bubbles on the seams with the rear wings – I was hoping it was just surface rust, but it turned out to be a bit worse than that: So, combined
I’ve been working on the rear lights – a nice little job to do at home. I started off rubbing down the metal part and spraying with silver paint: This has made a difference, although not a huge one: Just for the hell of it, I also painted the rears – I was never too
Now the underside is done, I’ve started work on the other parts – first up was the bumper, which is a bit rusty, but solid enough. The bumper cover is cracked from some long ago accident, so that’s scrap: And the mountings are rusted and siezed, so they’ll all need replacing: The actual bumper mounting
After waiting a few days for the paint to dry, I went down and did a bit of patching on the bits that got missed the first time round – although the finish is a little rough, it looks OK. Final pictures: Apart from the small areas where the axle stands are at the moment,
After getting the last bit (POR-15) done, I took a break for a week or so to give myself a rest, and also to let the paint harden properly. But I soon got back to it, rubbing it all down – not the easiest job, that paint is tough stuff – and cleaning it all
Saturday morning was time to get painting – and the weather obliged with a half decent day to do it in! So after a quick check over the car and a rub down to get some metal ready residue off, we were ready to start. The car had picked up a bit of flash rust
Today was ‘Metal Ready’ day – this is the acid etch/zinc coating stuff. This pretty much had to be done today, as I need to be painting the car at the weekend. If I don’t get that done, it’ll be nearly a month before I get the chance again. So, on a day when I
I’ve now got the underside finished – the last bit of welding (seatbelt mount) was done the other day, and I just had to fill in a couple of spots where my welds were a bit messy. With all that done, I set about giving the garage a good tidy up: Two full bags of
After a couple of days break due to soggy weather, I got back to the garage today. I started to carry on with the underside, specifically the drivers footwell area. I got held up straight away, however, when I found a rust hole. 🙁 Either I missed it when I cleaned up the first time