Been a while since I've updated, I been busy!
Naturally 30 years of winter driving and clocking up 200,000miles has taken its toll, wasn't confident it was going to make another Mot, so she came of the road at the end of April..
Not really tackled body work before so here goes, made a start at the front
gave the engine a clean at the front and paint
tried to reform the missing bits
new front panel on!
a proud moment!
Inner arches, needed some work
made a nice sculpture in the garden!
re shaped the damaged lower wing
got her up and running!
to make a start on the back
some weakness near the rear suspension, bugger!
my attempt at strengthening
hard to weld in there! I'm thinking rear coilovers might be an option
driverside a right state
let in some bits
wheres I'm at now!
Last edited by chris862; 27-06-15 at 01:30 AM.
good work, will live to fight another day no doubt. should see another 2000000, miles.
Make sure your steel is clean before welding it. some look touch and go to whether they have penetrated. Im sure itll be fine though.
Have you checked the floor where it meets the sill? I bet it needs a dose of weld to.
My nova was just about the same state as this. have a look http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...tb-nova/page15
Cheers fella! tried to clean the steel best I can I've been giving everything a good wack with the hammer after and it's all holding together so far, yea I've seen trouble behind the sills on the driverside, when the backs done thats next, currently making up inner arches
Good to see the work being done properly mate, some of them welds look a bit short of gas though.
Ha! cheers for the pic , remember that day my gf left it unlocked thereyes it started to get low as I was finishing the front, hope it will be ok!
Hopefully thats the boot area done
Inner arches next
Brilliant work on this, good job on re-fitting the new front end as there not the easiest of jobs getting the re aligned.
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