Here is my first ever complete restoration, hope it is of interest to people!


Car got delivered on Sat, the car was missing some bits of trim, door handles, front 1/4 glass and bits and bobs.....or so I thought!

Opened the boot to find a small auto-jumble! Most the missing trim plus a few extras.


Seats are pretty tidy and I like the colour, just need a clean and frame rubbing down and painting.

Some of the parts from the boot...




Had a tidy and sort out to make room for the strip down

From this

To this


Today I had a bit of a planning day, got some storage unit, had a good clean of my garage and a sort out so that i'd have room for the car and panels with room to move! Due to the garage not having power I picked up a petrol generator to run a drill and angle grinder off. Plan is to do most the body work and prep in this garage then once ready for the welding move it to a workshop down the road and do it all in one hit.

Few photos of the underside





Doesn't look to bad, was expecting worse!


Started stripping off the doors, bonnet boot.





Then moved onto the front wings and grill.










The car has obviously had some work in the past, most parts were pretty solid. I'm a bit of a virgin with cars of this age so what do people think? Tomorrow I plan to start taking back the surface rust and paint to see what's left. Have had a poke about the floors and sills and all feel pretty good.







That's about it for now, hopefully will crack on with the shell tomorrow, sanding back and looking into getting the engine and 'box out.

Any comments, advice or observations/info welcome! One thing I was wondering was where is the battery tray!?!? Has it been removed and where from!?