its coming along
its coming along
sideways is the best way to turn a corner
It will be worth the work. I had genuine Superspeed back in late 70s. OLA111L. Love to know if its still around. It was electric blue with yellow stripes, capri bonnet bulge and 5 speed ZF. Loved it.
Bet you wish you still had it! How did it handle on the bends? I've decided to move the engine back a few inches just to be on the safe side.
Season greetings to all, hope you all got something car related for Christmas.
Hello people, im back.
Its been, let me say.... an eventfull few months, the missus and myself parted company and then i lost my step father to cancer. All this happened back in February and its took me a while to find the motivation i needed to get stuck in again. This project, this car, has always been a labour of love for me, but sometimes that labour of love becomes a little too obssesive and starts to rule your life. The wife (or soon too be ex wife), named this car Edna. So Edna it shall be. And the rest of this build will be a tribute to my step dad, Glyn Jones.
anyway, heres some pics of where im up too
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please ignore them last pics, im a little out of touch.
Heres what ive been doing recently:
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Got most of the o/s arch finished, just a bit do do in the fuel tank well.
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ive now got half the n/s arch done and have chopped a load more tin worm out.
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lots of nast mot spec plating to chop out
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Got this plate all welded in, now im on with the spare wheel well. ill get some more pics up this weekend.
Anymore pics yet Paul?
I can take a pic of the feshly swept garage floor! Wont be long now wayne before i don the new welding mask and stsrt welding again. How is africa? You found me a decent persna capri yet?!!
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managed to get the chassis rails welded in last weekend, feckin mamouth task getting them lined up properly!!
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Decided to chop out plates above the chassis rails as they were a bit ripe. pointless going to all this length and leaving some grot in. means ive had to chop out the wheel and tank well, bugger!!
Nice work!
Keep it up!
Thanks for the commentHere are some piccies of what ive got done so far:
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Rear chassis rails braced and floor pieces cut out.
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Had to put new tank and wheel wells in but its starting to take shape again
All the boot floor and over axle is now welded and started on the rear arches
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some good skills going off here.
EVERY DAY,S A LEARNING DAY
Great save and great work well done
Hi guys n gals, got a little more done over the weekend but was rudely interupted by some mot work on the daily hack.
Got the o/s inner wheel arch welded on
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Now the outer arch trial fitted in place and ready to weld on
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Im at the same place on tother side but space is a bit tight so use your imagination.
Great work mate getting there
nice project there.a bit of thinking in to ur car.
keep the work going
dsrestos
Nice to see progress on this, lad
1700cc MK1 ESTATE DONE. MK1 2DR STARTED
Managed to get a bit more done this week. Was hoping to have the back end finished today.... theres always tomorrow!
Got the rear bulkhead all buttoned in
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Rear bumper strengtheners welded back in. Also spent a few nights having a grindathon with all the welding in the boot floor! Looks much tidier
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I had to chop this section of lower corner off some spare panels i had
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wheel arch nearly all welded
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Thats it for tonight, got the lower corner to go on then on to the other side. Maybe this will be the week i finally get the back end finished!!
Any further progress?/
Am real interested in this one.
1700cc MK1 ESTATE DONE. MK1 2DR STARTED
O.k, you twisted my arm, ill put some more pics up. Ill be honest ive been a bit lazy recently, curling up on the sofa watching shite on the box instead of getting pics uploaded!!
where were we... oh yeah, back wheel arches:
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Had to chop the lower rear corner in two to get it to fit somewhere decent
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Finally all the back of the car is pretty much there!!
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Now onto the front of the car. You will see in the next few pics why i have done this!
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The inner wings and chassis rails on this car were feckin hangin! fortunatley i got a real good front end of the boys at escort tec.
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So, i started to clean up the bulkhead and see what i had to play with. I was hoping for a little less work on the bulkhead but... not a fookin chance!
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Had to make another hole!!delicately does it are the words im thinking.
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And after an afternoons work i got this far!
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starting to take shape.
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Gonna pull my finger out a bit this weekend see if i can get the front end on. thats all folks!
Very neat fab work.
1700cc MK1 ESTATE DONE. MK1 2DR STARTED
Back end is looking very tidy and solid now. Good work
some savage weldin goin on there...great fab work
Brave man, but you look like you have to skills to turn this into a pukka Mk1 once again.
Old skool forever
Just don`t tell the wife
how much it really costs!
THE FRONT ENDS ON!!!!!!
About feckin time too! finished a few repairs to the bulkhead then trialed it in place, took some measurements and was happy!! Heres some pics:
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bulkhead somewhere near
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Front end on! had to repair the lower bulkhead with the front end fitted
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ive finished repairing the lower bulkhead and moved onto the chassis rails for now, try and tie it all in together. these floors and seat crossmembers are well past their best!
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not much left of this chassis rail. Ive got a couple of buckets of rust if anyone wants a cheap alternative to bark chippings or slate!!
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Chassis rails now on and fully welded. Ive plug welded them where they were originally spot welded.
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Started on the inner sills and found the usuall bits of wood! why cant people leave something usefull like decent metal!!
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Thats what i got done last week, ill get some pics up tomorrow night of this weeks work!
wooo some serious metal work there, cant wait 2 see engine going in place
As I have already said...That's one great save
some work u have there
fair play m8.
keep the pics comeing
intresting to see
a have fixed a few rot boxes but not as far as u have gone
dsrestos
As usual Paul top welding mate! Ill pop round
Next week to admire the 1st class standard of fabrication.
Oh and a mediocre cup of tea
It's better than visiting an art gallery for me this is
Art in its purist form!! You are the Da Vinci of the fabrication world!
Very nice fabrication work there mate
My friends running a V6 in his Mk1 and didn't have to chop too much either
here it is below
Looks like you saved that one from the scrap heap, nice work
I want to thank everyone on here who has taken time to look at this thread, and also everyone for there comments. Its much appreciated. Wayne....my tea is not mediocre! Your getting water next time you round mine!!
Bodger, ive been following your mates thread on the lnterweb for a while and love it! Just shows them boat anchors do a good job.
MORE PICS!!!!!
started to crack on with the floors last weekend.
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I had to chop out the side of the tunnel where the seat crossmembers weld too as there wasnt much good steel there. Was there any in the first place!!
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The front floor pans needed extending a bit at the front where they meet the lower bulkhead
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drivers side nearly all in!!
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hopefully ill have the floors all finished by the weekend then see if i can get all one side of the shell finished. Thats all folks!
Neat work going on here. Very well done buddy
Real men do it Sideways
First time I've seen this thread, really impressed with what you've done. Look forward to the updates
good progress there again m8
cracken to see u getting the rot out a the new metal in.
just shows u what can be done
dsrestos
I was laughing at your Tin worm comments Paul.... You need to be less conservative I saw the extent of the corrosion on this car
and it was more like a Tin Great White Shark had taken a few rusty bites out of it... Id have given it up for dead after that attack
Amazing Tin Smithing!!
Very good work´s
well done fella, miraculous what you have done. keep it up you certainly will have a good one once complete.
JP
waiting on the next instalment of pics......
Did you get the Jag run about?
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