Well , Rather than just break cossies i have been asked to repair one

The owner of this car looked on my website and was impressed with the RS500 restorations i have done and called and asked if i would take on his pride and joy damaged saff

She has suffered quite a bad hit and has pushed both chassie legs over , but nothing that cant be jigged

I will update as it goes





this picc shows how far its gone over

 

sore one,sierra bend the front chassis legs at anything over 20mph

 

it will be hard getting panels the same colour to repair that!

 

maybe a new venture for you Paul.

hope all goes well with it.

 

The front end will be repainted mate after its jigged

 

Genuine stuff can still be sourced for Sapphires i think, someone in the Cosworth said they have just acquired panels.

Should look good when finished.

 

I have ordered a complete front panel and front x member from Ford

wings and bonnet will repair ok , and the rest will be second hand ,,,now where will i find second hand parts ?

















Oh , I have them

ps, BRAMMER , why have you got piccs of my 500 in your siggi ,,lol,,

 

that will go easy enough i reckon...has it pushed the os leg aswell paul?

 

Yes mate , both legs are across , nothing to worry about tho . infact the bumper irons are still in the ends of the chassie legs so you can see just how far its gone over

I am a panel beater by trade so an easy job for me

Also a bonus that a very very good bodyshop backs onto my workshop who have a blackhawk jig and a new spraybooth , so it will look as new when completed

 

good luck with that. nice to see one getting repaired after a smash

 

niceone, blackhawk are very nice

 

Top stuff Paul, nice to see one getting repaired for a change.

 

Genuine question, would it not be cheaper and easier just to re-shell it?

With your Cosworth expertise I am surprised you don't do servcing and repairs, you have enough spare parts

 

Wil
to reshell it is about 90 / 100 hours ,
to repair is about 25 hours , and i would be lucky to find a good enough shell as this one is mint pre accident

Regards , repaires etc , there arnt many cossies up this way that arnt owned by people in the garage trade etc who do all there own work

 

good to see another being saved! be good to see the end result, good luck!!

 

From the post i dont think you will, but if you do get stuck for bits i`ve got tons of sapphy parts, all in good nick as well no rust etc. Pm me if you get desperate mate, Vaughan.

 

You dont think i will what ?

 

He obviously dosent know of you paul

 

where abouts is that from paul

 

lol i think he implied that you may not have enough spares to rebuild the car paul .



ohh how little he knows lol


vagunt the guy has more spares then ford ,

beef

 

Newcastle i think Jacko

I dont know thw fella, he just rang up said he has been looking on my website and can i fix it if he brought it and he turned up with it 3 days later

 

im sure this is a mate of one of our customers is it 4x4

 

No mate , G plate 2wd

Its got 4x4 dark grey cloth trim tho

He bought the car last saturday and bent it on the monday ,,oooops

 

must be his first high powered rwd car
bet he fault no probs..........................
and then Ah shit!

we have all been there

 

i got a mate a good deal on a minty mint moonstone 2wd 9 days after buying it he put it under a lorry total loss

 

Good nice to see one saved

btw Paul mines 2wd with dark grey cloth from new

Paul

 

Yours must be a very late G plate them mate , i would quess