Manky's Pop.

[spanners]

i once had an white with red roof  anglia, called ,junkyard dog,, i believe its still kicking about somewhere  oldham/manchester way ,,

[Olds]

I think this should be it's name mare, love it..

  Ribbet

[Manky Monkey]

"greener than a junkyard frog".

No Loony today cos he was out late last night, welding someone's car at another workshop. So no progress to report. I did nip to the next town though to collect a sheet of steel for the driver's door opening. Hopefully back at it tomorrow.

[Manky Monkey]

I want to put the MMMotors logo on the doors & already have "Manky" on the tailgate & a badge on the bonnet, so no room for other names really. It's unofficial nickname will be Junkyard Frog though, (I was going to use that for my green trike). Maybe have it signwritten on the glovebox lid or something.

Well "tomorrow" was lost to collecting Loony's new hotrod project & today was PantherShaun's fault. He called in at the 'shop with his mate, (also Shaun?), & stopped me from doing lots & lots of work. Honest.
Also had a visit this afternoon from Old Newbie. You missed Shaun, (s), by about half an hour mate.
I did manage to do a titchy tiny bit on the Pop though. Cut the old hinges off the drivers door & trimmed them back to take the new hinge barrels, machined by Mr Twisted Patience. Also made a paper template of the passenger door top & traced it onto the drivers door, ready to re-cut the opening, once the hinges are in place.
I actually seem to get more achieved on weekdays, after my shift at work, than I do at weekends, when the 'shop's full of visitors, but nice to see you all. 

[panthershaun]

sorry bud  good therapy for me though so not all wasted mate 

[Olds]

Glad you got something done. Will try not to distract you.

[Manky Monkey]

  Always nice to see you chaps.
Had one of those should've stayed at home days today.
I need Mr Loon to weld the hinges before I can carry on with the drivers door, so thought I'd just drill the passenger floor & rivet the vehicle weight plate on. First set of holes ended up going straight into a chassis cross member under the floor. Second set ended up a right raggedy hole mess. So now I've got 8 holes that need welding up again.
Decided on a better place to mount the plate, then ran out of rivets.
Sometimes you should just give up after the first mistake & go home.

[Manky Monkey]

2 days later.
Door hinges welded & floor holes plugged too, thanks to Mr L & his weddling machine. With the hinges welded I was able to cut through the door/roof panel to create a new, lower door opening. So now we've filled the gap between the 3" roof chop & 4" door chop. The hinges need a little more welding to beef them up as the doors try to droop under their own weight, but not bad.
Now I can crack on with rebuilding the inside edges of the door opening.

[steven brock]

Here's an idea for ya

Manky's Pop.

[cunningplan]

I dont understand    Andy, you did the one door this way

and the other one diffrent, was there a reason 

[spanners]

Here's an idea for ya

Manky's Pop.

you havn,t seen ,EMILY,S,, pipe,s yet   

[Manky Monkey]

Different Tony?

[cunningplan]

Different Tony?

You know whats its like when your getting old, I have just gone back 100 or so pages and can see now you did the same to the other door, I was looking where you were putting the edge around inside of the roof on the n/s.
 

[Manky Monkey]

  I didn't work on the passenger door/roof section. Can't remember why, but Loony did it while I was away somewhere, (I was living 40 miles away with Taz in Guildford at the time. I think he stayed late one night & worked on it alone).
His side's slightly flatter than mine, but hopefully by the time the rain drip rail's on, it won't show. Lots of tin bashing to do yet though, so things can be fettled as we go.
My day off today, but I had a few non auto errands to do this morning & by lunchtime had a stonking headache, so I called at the 'shop but only to drop some parts off. Picked up some new grease caps for the wheels from Ebay, (fitted front ones for the SVA test but couldn't find matching rear ones).
I've made a start on the drivers door opening, but nothing worth photographing yet.
Loony's Dad, Dave, fired up his lathe & mill for me last night & cut a chamfer on the bottom of the gearknob fitting, (it didn't screw all the way down onto the stick). He also milled a couple of blocks of black plastic I bought from Ebay to form wedges. They'll go under the door mirrors to bring them up to the right angle -we need mirrors for the MOT test. No room for an interior mirror in the chopped down screen, so the regulations say we need to fit 2 exterior ones instead.

[Manky Monkey]

Drivers door opening panels welded in place. Not quite right though -there's too much gap between the door & surround at the front. I can fix that by letting in a filler piece around the front curve -kinda difficult to envisage the finished shape when you're wrestling with half a dozen seperate pieces of steel strip, so we needed to tack it all in place before we could see where we were going.
There's definitely differences between the driver & passenger sides of the cab. The "roll cage" was lined up by eye & must be a little lower on the drivers side cos the gap between it & the top of the door's narrower. Not worth worrying about though. As we've worked on this build we've come to realise nothing was symetrical from one side of the car to the other when it was new, let alone 60 years later. Part of the "character" of old Brit cars.