Been lurking on here for a while and always been meaning to post up my long ongoing resto project mk1 so while im stuck in house recovering from my hernia op no better time lol


This was when I bought it around 8 or 9 years ago:0 only used it for a couple months then wasn't happy with a few bits so started ripping out rusty strut tops


And ended up with this thinking wtf hav I done and closed over garage for aboot a year lol


Got it in a mates garage where I had enough room to work on it


New front crossmember ful length inner wing tips and slam panel fitted


Wingtip reinforcement plug welded on


Big gearbox tunnel in


Full set of floor pans in






Ready to put on rollover jig


And up it goes


Rear arches done




Front wings fitted thank to a mate lining them up cos I couldn't get them sitting worth a shit lol and bubble fitted




Flipped her over and started on 6 linking the atlas onto her




Stripped back down and floor prepped


Etch primed


About 8 bottles of gravi tex later


Axle brace fitted and painted


Engine bay prepped and etch primed


Forgot to put cage pics in order but here's rear half




Underside painted but forgot to take pic and off spit and rolling


Inside all prepped and 2k high build primered






Now painted






At my mates body shop now for prep and paint on outer body and panels


















Primer flatted back ready for paint


And finally after all these years of wondering how it would look with paint










Doors bonnet and boot refitted and looking good if I do say so myself lol well happy with where its at just now




Got this stripped down for paint big wing baffled sump and new gaskets water pump etc to be done

 

looking good love it well done fella

know what you mean about long projects lol im in my 6th year

 

Looking great, will keep an eye on this one.


Mart.

 

Cheers boys and yeah the years just roll by don't they lol hopefully funds allowing it will be finished next year

 

Looking good, had the same problem with the years flying by though.....

 

was nice to start with but looks like going to be amazing!!

 

Very nice. It looked nice when you first got it.

Will be an animal with the cossie lump fitted.

 

Yeah William think everybody that gets deep into one of these Restos finds that problem tho lol and yeah she didn't look to bad when I got her but few wee bits I wasn't happy with and the more you dig the more u find then before u know its a top to bottom rebuild plus the over bored cross flow on 40s was ok but no cutting the mustard considering I sold my saff cos to get this

 

That looks fantastic.
Excellent resto to see.
Look forward to seeing more