Sorry it’s been so long coming, but now I have all the major project, customer cars out of the workshop I can do a bit more to this little project!!
Needed to find something smallish to do in the couple of days leading up to our holiday, which we’ve just come back from.
Easiest, in terms of reasonably quick to do was the front/grille panel. I haven’t got any pictures of it on its own, but it has been media blasted and there are a number of issues that have surfaced.
Both ends are in need of attention, so we’ll start with the left side.
This is what we’ve started with ………….
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The return has been removed and a two inch strengthening piece spot welded all the way down, a new return fabricated and welded on.
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Showing the final cleaned up portion, with half side light hole cut.
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Now to the other side, which is a bit more difficult.
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I cut this piece off.
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And added a two inch strip behind as with the left side.
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Then a piece over the top.
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Finally welded on the new fabricated return.
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Fabricate new upper part/headlamp lower ¼ section, joggle fitted as opposed to the original that had only 9 spots of braze holding it from top bottom! All the bare metal bits were painted with rust inhibitor.
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Finally a coat of epoxy primer to protect it.
I still have some work to do on this, capping of the bits next to the head lamp potion and some hammer work on the dented bits.
After removing the rotisserie front portion, the front panel and the panel behind were fitted. This is needed to be done to enable the wings to be offered up.
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