After posting in a previous thread for advice decided to try and save my rs a family member who's a dab hand at welding will sort sand/wet blasting welding bodywork paint etc and hopefully arrive back for me to rebuild

Before we started strip down
Interior stripped
Engine and box out with a little help from a good friend
Front suspension abs removed
Bit of work needed inside the bay

Underside under seal and hopefully only surface rust


Nearly there

One shell good to go lol

 

On its way

 

Looks like a really good shell

 

Thanks hopefully come up good

 

Good luck mate ..looks a nice and easy job .

 

Thanks mate it's just arrived welders had a quick look round saying not too bad seen and fixed a lot worse so we'll see after he has had a poke around in the meantime I'll be busy with s+s and engine build

 

Good to hear ..keep up the good work mate.

 

less rot than my motor

 

Few pics after blasting






Sorry about the quality of pics not the best try and get some better ones to show

 

Looks a good platform to work on, What did you do with the Ł300(as recently seen on eBay) black vinyl sill decals? Did you carefully remove them to re-use them?

 

Looks good to me ..I've got a brand new set of sill decals to fit to mine .

 

Was very hard going the chrome covers were glued solid down used a bit of heat to get them off it has marked the vinyl I've kept them in the hope I can reuse them

The car itself isn't too bad it's opened up a few more holes to sort and still undecided how to tackle the roof, just one crisis at a time

 

Is that the replica ones some lad was selling for Ł40+ on facebook and eBay?

I'm kinda hoping DMB get hold of a set and re-make them as Ł40+ is far to much for abit of vinyl plastic!

 

Thanks mate, what did you pay if you don't mind me asking

 

Good that you managed to potentially save them, I've seen people just rip them apart when doing sills. If the marks are visible you can use a sharpie pen and a microfibre cloth and to touch them in.(secret car manufacturing trick to save marked trim)

 

Hopefully mate yeah wana try and save as much original stuff as I can I'll try your advice when time comes

 

I gave 35 for a copy set and 2 weeks later a genuine brand new set come up on eBay for 170 .

 

Been a while since I posted so here's a few pics of work so far

 

Coming along nicely

 

Looking good mate will be keeping an eye on this one 🙂

 

Looking good work mate

 

Looks a good shell, good luck with project

 

Thanks for the coments guys looking positive so far