Another Wreck, another Race Car.....

[Jarred]

Welds are looking good!

Glad to see some good has come from old yellow

[Peter Jones]

Got more seam welding done on the underside tonight.

Before.


After

[Jarred]

looking good,

how many hours so far? Or not even bothering to count?

[Peter Jones]

looking good,

how many hours so far? Or not even bothering to count?

About 6 hours on the seam welding so far and about 16 (2 people x 8 hours) on the rust repairs.

Another 5 hours or so prepping and painting the loose panels.

[GoLfMan]

not mucking around Pete! Great work!

[GOLFBALLS]

This really is awesome!
It's like a tutorial.
I've got basically identical work to do on both my mk1 shells

[Peter Jones]

Marathon effort this weekend.

There's more photos, but I didn't take a lot I was pretty flat out.

We got the floor in on Saturday, it was a very big job and took all day. I finished up a couple more rust repairs too.

Sunday I finished off some of the welding, cut in a few new pieces here and there.

COuldn't leave it in bare metal any longer and it's booked in for a roll cage this friday so it had to get etch primed at the least.

Major wash down with phosphoric, water then prepsol before blowing a light coat of etch over it.

Here's some pics in no particular order, the magpie keeps wanting to help and will steal your chips if you leave them out.





















Tired now. Have to get it rolling again before Friday, the cage shop need it on its own wheels, few more late nights yet.

[Preen59]

That's unreal. What sort of money are we talking to get a body dipped like that? It came back amazing!!!

Well done, Pete!!

[Peter Jones]

All up the stripping cost $1500 for the shell and all the panels as well as the repair piece.

Body only would have been $1200.

Comparable to blasting price wise, but blasting won't get the underbody tar stuff off.

I just didn't have the time to sand/scrape it back manually, I'd still be sanding by this time next year.

[Jarred]

Can I be of any assistance Pete? I'm free monday and wednesday nights?

[Preen59]

All up the stripping cost $1500 for the shell and all the panels as well as the repair piece.

Body only would have been $1200.

Comparable to blasting price wise, but blasting won't get the underbody tar stuff off.

I just didn't have the time to sand/scrape it back manually, I'd still be sanding by this time next year.

Well worth it, mate. What a top job. And you're doing everything properly, which i always like to see.

Great stuff dude. I'm seriously in awe.

[Peter Jones]

Cheers Chris,.

Jodie was sneaking about with a video camera while I was spraying.

For those who like to watch.......

By the way, that's an insanely easy way to spray a roof.

The interior was pretty easy too because I could spray the interior roof with the car upside down.

[Preen59]

Pretty to watch, mate.

[Peter Jones]

Started bolting in the basics to make it roll.

Cleaned up a steering box and column.

Going to have to box out a recess for the pedal box to slide forward.







Once it's back with the roll cage all this stuff comes straight off again and it goes back up on the rotisserie for the rest of the panel work.

[Peter Jones]

With some help from Jarred during the week and Geoff Hale today the car is now at Brown Davis awaiting a roll over protection structure.

Here's some before pictures, the after pictures will come in about a week or two when I get the car back.