couple of pictures of it before the angle grinder etc met it

all the parts will be living on in a 1.6 gl shell instead:




Photos to follow in about 6 weeks or so when its all back together!

 

thats what happens when you let someone else drive your car

 

thats a good and proper hit - didnt think it was that bad.

 

is that lampost flavoured?

 

Shame, cause she was a lovely looking motor, really solid shell.

Oh well, soon to be reborn anyway.

New shell is one of the mintest 3 door sierra shells i have ever clapped eyes upon, got one rusty rear arch (luckily the undamaged side of the rs500 shell so we can cut that out) and a couple of really tiny scabby bits in the engine bay (now welded up)

So at the end of it, she should be a right nice motor again.

And yellow

 

actually, i'm astonished the windows didnt pop

 

substantial signpost

 

nice one Chip

i'm tempted to buy a 3door shell and transfer everything from my sapphire over

 

And the rear screen is still perfect!

 

shame about the wiper arm tho - it looks well out of touch

 

Thats foooooked it proper!!! Good luck and keep the pics comming

 

Yeah the wiper doesnt work any more.

Can anyone host a video of it?

It still drives lovely believe it or not, after a quick bit of welding to the steering rack lol

Ive got a video of its last ever journey but nowhere to host it.

 

I can host it for ya

 

Can you convert from .mov to .mpg as well, or everyone will need to download a player for it?

Ive got another video too, of my being very careful driving John's saph but that one needs shortening to just the first dozen seconds or so.

 

Yea,just email them and i can edit it for ya

 

Mail on its way with both videos in it

Thanks mate

 

cant you just cut the back end off of the cossie and put the back end of the GLK shell on it surely that's easier than stripping the whole front half

 

fook didnt think it was that bad!

Must of been the number plate!

 

If i wanted to do it the easy way, we would have just jigged the shell straight and stuck a new quarter and rear panel on it, but i dont want metal that has been bent and straightened, i would sooner have an utterly mint perfectly straight GL shell that has never been welded before i got hold of it.

This way the car will be spot on, and i couldnt give a toss its now an A reg instead, im not a logbook snob.

 

I'd still be sat at the side of the road crying

 

chip - weld the chassis panel with the VIN number in

 

Well, can I buy your old shell and log book for a Ł1 please Chip

 

To be honest, at the time i couldnt have given less of a toss about the car if i had tried, as was far more worried about my mate who had possible severe head injuries, car is just a bit of metal at the end of the day, and easily fixed, but decent friends are hard to find

 

true mate, didn't realise that was the situation

 

Doug, no you cant, cause it now has no roof on it!
(the GL didnt have a tilt and slide)

and also it no longer has a passender side rear quarter.

 

Ben, the email bounced mate

is the benporter@talk21.com the right one?

 

Chip mate,

got a really odd question, can i chat with you on msn??

 

No mate, i cant access MSN during the day.

PM me if you want.

 

 

Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd Sorry your message to
benporter@talk21.com cannot be delivered because it is too large

Ah, right address, just too big an email (over 20 meg)

 

Chip....just about to PM ya!!

 

Try benporter@f2s.com

 

Ben, that bounced again mate.

 

How big is it?

 

very

 

sorry to say it was actually me that did that.

Lost it on a bit of road I know so well, a bit of road I do everyday , and have done for the last 5 years. On the brakes, and the arse just stepped out and i never caught it. The next thing I remember walking up in an ambulance. Went sideways, Ns front wing clipped a sign post spun it 270 degrees and straight back into a mud bank. I would expect I was still doing 50/60ish went it went into the bank.

as for people asking about having the shell, as chip said, it was repairable Untill I cut the roof off it, 1/4 off it etc etc, anything that made it cosworth has now gone and is on the new car.

Should be untraceable on a private plate, I even cut the pop and out sunroof on the GL out, and cut and stitched in the tilt and slide roof.

Still, yellow is a crap colour if you ask me, it should be back to the original moonstone...

Rich

PS, like it, vauxhall masterfit overalls working on a ford..... uhhhhh

 

Oi Rich, what you doing on here, shouldnt you be in the garage?

Shell seems to be coming along really well so far mate, thanks for all your hardwork, takes a man to correct his mistakes

See you next week some time no doubt

 

does that mean i cant drive it

 

Depends if you have just taken it up the bum or not love.

 

ouch