well here goes

these photo's are the day she arrived home and before i got her into the workshop to be stripped down to a shell









nice seat

as you can see a bit of work needed.....and i will post up pics as i do work



Pugo

 

@ the tow bar.

lots of hard work ahead that inner wing looks abit scary

good luck

 

did anybody laugh at the reyland escos with a towbar (but it is coming off)

inner wing looks worse in real life

but it is only metal and is the only real nightmare on the car

 

Good luck mate

Another cossie to be saved

 

good luck mate, good to see another 3 door rescued!!

 

This might seem strange but how can anyone let a cosworth get in that sort of condition?

 

most people break em when they are this far gone.........it has sat around for a while apparently.........

but she will live again

 

A nice little project there,good luck,cant wait to see more piccys

 

looks cool, good luck

 

good luck mate

 

Great to see another saved Good luck with the resto

 

Good luck with it mate

 

right time for an update, i have welded all new metal into the inner wing


stripped everything off of it, started on the engine bay first as this is where all the grot was



am now about to start underneath.....



still going at it when i find the time, and am starting to source parts now

but i had to drop a few bits on it so i could visualise it and to keep the spirit up

look at this badboy



Pugo

 

looks good, whilst it's all stripped wack some proper adjustable top mounts on the front turrets, awesome!

 

 

Right, i have been a busy boy and got stuck in the last couple of weeks, all the underneath i sand blasted back to metal, i then started stone chipping it all and finished off the engine bay, just needs nibbing off and a top coat in the morning and i can start putting the engine bay back togethor


So here is the floor in stonechip awaiting a coat of the diamond white

Offside rear wheelarch in stonechip with a coat of paint on it

Engine bay now in primer and all ready for a coat of paint

that mullared inner wing all now replaced with new metal and in primer

that rotten innerwing now in a base coat of diamond white...looking shiney

The other side just had to match

here is the engine bay in a base coat of diamond white nearly dry awaiting a quick nib then a top coat in the morning

here is another of the engine bay with a lamp on it trying to keep the moisture off whilst it dries

so as you can see it might be taking forever but i am slowly getting there

tomorrow i am going to finish of the stone chip and stick some diamond white on the whole of the floor...
i am going to start prepping the inside of the boot and then its trim up time



will add some more pics as i get nearer the trim stage

Pugo

 

nice resto mate i did a moonstone gone in same place on inner wing once. thing is i bought car with engine in boot. put engine in and bottom end was gone , but it was "only in the boot to do the wing mate" keep the pics coming youth and save another legend!!!

 

Looking good mate!! Keep up the good work!

 

 

okay.......another update, started to assemble the engine bay and have started on the trim as well

this is it for a month as i am going to be busy at work



can't finish the brakes till i locate a 3dr abs bracket





Pugo

 

Nice one

 

going well will look the nuts once done

 

keepn up the gud work m8

 

Great job mate, you must enjoy looking at the difference of the enginebay now

Keep the pics of the underside comming

 

Very nice mate!! soo happy another one is going to be saved to grace the roads again!

 

Excellent work fella

 

 

lookin good fella!!

whish i had time money and space to do this to my cars.....one day maybe.....

what paint are you using? 2 pack or cans? compressor powered paint guns? looks good

when you say 'nib off' - are you talkin about knockin the peel texture out of the base coat before laquering? are are you just using base coat?

timbo

 

i used a 1 pack acrylic for the engine bay and underside, with a gun and compressor, yes when i nibbed it off i used 600 paper on the primer to flatten it ready for colour, i am not laquering the paint as its a solid colour and not metalic, it had 2 base coats and one top coat to achieve an even finish

HTH

 

nice one mate

lookin good!

have to give us a look maybe one day soon

will try n get a bit more done on the saph to show ya but to be honest im a bit skint at the mo - no job

keep it up mate!

 

 

Hi pugo


Looks alot diff to when i picked my rear bumper of you all them month's ago,keep it up m8...


Joe.......

 

the outside doesn't

i am getting there but i am shitting myself after seeing what happened to yours

any news on yours yet???????

 

Coming on nicely indeed

 

just striped it back to a bear shell again today

its ready to go to the sprayers next week where its getting sprayed inside and out

any chance you could email the pics in this thread as they are not working now

cheers rob

rob_c_79@msn.com

 

only if you promise to send me the pics of her finished

Pugo

 

you will deffo see the progress mate

 

did you manage to get them pic together mate, also did you find that log book