So following day got on with trial fitting the wings to make sure everything lined up right, cue excitment as we offered the new wings into place




Looking good and already miles better than what was there, before welding the wings back on though the jacking points of the car where now exposed after the removal of the wings, over the 20 odd years of cars life these have been flattened and crushed so while accessable these were knocked back down



The wings where then cleaned then lined up and my mate (being a better welder than me) set about welding them back onto the car




The spot weld which had been drilled out where filled back in and a long time later the inner wings where back on the car




The bonnet had been left on throughout this process and so the outer wings where placed and clamped on and the bonnet shut to check everything was still lining up as it should, and im delighted to say everything did, better than expected really for 2 people with no experience in this




At the front where the headlights sit again for the life of me couldnt find the 2 required pieces, thought id hit gold on an internet site only to be told the parts where now obsolete. Luckily being an engineer I have some experience in sheet metal work so went about making a paper template from the old part, transferred that to cardboard then traced the shape onto a piece of sheet metal



This was then bent and shaped to match and welded onto the car




as last job with the inner wings all the little holes where filled with weld and the bigger ones had pieces made and welded in to give a clean base for after spraying and get rid of some of the holes which were not being used, a dust of copper spray was applied to protect the wings from going to rusty while the car was outside under a sheet



With that cue the cheesy grin and thinking the worse of its over now at least, how those words came back to haunt me the following week