r1_pete
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| posted on 4/11/12 at 08:21 PM |
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My Winter workload
Plan was to rebuild the front end over the winter and convert to covered headlights, will be replacing the lower panel, but didn't expect all
this filler. Its nearly 20mm thick in places, clearly a front end shunt at some time, hope the neighbors won't mind all the hamering, as I re
shape this lot, might actually get to use the TIG set too, which has been in its plastic wrappings since last Christmas,,,,,,,
 
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[Edited on 4/11/12 by r1_pete]
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mookaloid
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| posted on 4/11/12 at 09:07 PM |
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looks like a big jobbie - good luck 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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austin man
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| posted on 4/11/12 at 09:16 PM |
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will be worth it in the end
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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steve m
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| posted on 4/11/12 at 09:42 PM |
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Drooooooooooooooooooolllllll
I am VERY envous,
my fav car of all time, by far
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 5/11/12 at 12:18 AM |
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With that rust I might be looking at new panels, a friend has had to do it twice due to collisions not his fault.
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r1_pete
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| posted on 5/11/12 at 10:36 AM |
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Thanks guys...
The metal isn't too bad, just crumpled under all that filler, its amazing as I tested it with a magnet before buying!!, new panels are so
expensive, and poor quality now, I have got a new lower/hinge panel which is pressed using original tooling so should be somewhere near. But the fit
on the non OE panels is not very good at all, I did the back wings and boot floor last winter and spent more time re working joints than anything
else.....
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Dingz
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| posted on 5/11/12 at 02:01 PM |
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Still think they are amazing, when I was an apprentice we went ot the factory to see them being built. The bare steel bodies came in from Fisher on
the back of open lorries, if it was raining they were covered in rust, they were given what seemed to be a cursory rub down before they went into the
paint shop. We couldn't beleive it and we were from Vauxhall in the late 60s! Suprised many of them survived so long.
Phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just
went on and on.
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