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[pickupmad87]

Alrite Guys. Time for a new Project!! I know we havent finished the pickup yet but

this came up at a price that we couldnt refuse!!!

 

so lets begin. as the title says its alot better than what we usually start off with 

which is a bonus.

 

heres the beast.

 

and heres some pics of the areas that need attention.

 

Front floorpan needs repairing, slight repair on the inner wing and slight repair on the inner sill at the front drivers side.

 

Very slight repairs to the wheel arch and the rear valence closing panel on the drivers side.

 

Rear valence needs panel beating straight.

 

Wheel arch passenger side needs slight reapir.

 

Floorpan repair, inner sill and slight repair to innerwing needed.

 

And we need to get rid of this hideous thing!!! More on that next!

 

seeing as we have got a "spare" mini in the back lane, we have decided to do a roof swap.

 

so alot of carefull measuring is in need. all measurements and points of measuring have been marked off with marker pen.

 

 

with this done we welded in some bracings to keep the door gaps and to stop the shell from twisting.

 

with the bracing in and checking of all mesurements we transfered the measurements onto the spare mini! with this done

it was time to get the spotweld drill and grinder out!

 

 

off with its head!!

 

 

 

to maintain strength when welded back together all he joints are staggered by 100mm.

 

 

with all the cuts finished, a very liberal coat of weld through primer was applied to all the surfaces.

 

with all of this completed it was time to do the same to the "spare" mini.

 

 

 

and again weld through primer applied to all the internal surfaces.

 

 

dont worry about the "spare" mini were keeping the rest of that instock for my van project when i get hold of one!

 

now it was time to mate the two together!  

 

 

we went round measuring off our datums we had set and tacked the two together. it got a bit late in the day by 

the time we got to this point, so we will finish welding it tomrrow.

 

before we knocked off we thought we would take the oversill that had been put on, on the drivers side.

luckily it had been put on so badly it was easy to take off! look theres the original sill. this winds me up something kronic!

 

 

and this is why you dont use the dredded over sills.

 

look at all the moisture they hold in!!

 

thats it for today, should be updating more tommorrow.

 

 

[chrisj]

Fantastic start, looks like a reasonably good shell.

Will be following closely.

[Ben_O]

Cant believe you have started another project! LOL

Looks like a good one. It must be so nice having "spare" mini's laying about for spares!!

Good luck with this. I will be watching!

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[pickupmad87]

as promised a bit of an update!

 

basicly we have finished welding the roof back on to the car.

 

 

 

we then ground them all flat and sprayed a quick coat of etch primer on them.

 

 

we then had a look at the remains from under neath the "bover" sill!

 

apparently if you shove loads of wire mesh into a hole and slap aload 

of filler over it. this is just as good as welding the hole through the 

door post and through the sill up properly.

 

 

 

 

thats it for today, hopefully more tomorrow.

[pickupmad87]

Small update..

 

while I was at work today my dad cracked on with the GT.

 

He started off by cutting the rust out of the drivers side a panel, sill, floorpan nd bottom of the inner wing.

 

 

 

 

Floorpan welded in

 

 

 

 

Sill welded on

 

 

door step repair piece made and started to tack in.

 

 

 

 

thats it for tonight.

[pickupmad87]

Evening all!

 

started off by cutting the remains of the old passeener side floor pan out and the rot in the inner wing.

 

 

Then welded the floor pan in.

 

 

 

then sorted the repair on the inner wing.

 

 

 

After that primed the inner sill.

 

 

then welded it on.

 

 

then after making the repair panel repaired the bottom portion of the a panel.

 

 

 

A little help from the cats.

 

 

 

then lastly repaired a section on the passenger side wheel arch.

 

 

thats it for tonight more tomorrrow.

[72clubman]

Very impressive, you're a braver man than I, wouldn't dream of taking off the roof! Can't beat a good GT! 

[ZEBERDEE]

Looking nice mate keep up the good work

Edited by ZEBERDEE, 31 August 2013 - 12:09 AM.

[Ben_O]

This is amazing!

The speed you work at is so impressive. You do more in a day than most do in 2 months!! me included!!

Its looking great. No doubt it will be done and on the road in no time!

 

Ben

[MrBounce]

This is completely brilliant. Looks like my old GT (a Pageant Blue '79). If you don't mind me asking, what are the first 3 letters on the number plate?

[minimikej]

Proper repair work going on here, looks very good!

[pickupmad87]

Mr bounce I dont know what the numberbplate is at mo waiting for the log book to come bk from dvla!

[mc1]

Great work! Keep it up

[pickupmad87]

alrite guys,

 

little update for the past couple of days.

 

started off by removing the rear vallence, we had thought of saving this but with the rust that was under the

 paint we decided it would be a much better job if we just replaced it

 

drilled out all the spotwelds.

 

removed the vallence.

 

we got new vallence closing panels but didnt get the ones that go back to the vallence. so one of them needed

a slight repair, the other just needed rust treating.

 

 

 

all welded in.

 

 

this is what we use to convert the rust.

 

 

after this there was a small repair needed to the drivers side wheel arch and boot floor

 

 

once the repairs were made, the rear valence was trial fitted to get the position for the closing panels.

 

 

welded in.

 

 

 

 

vallence all welded on.

 

 

with all the welding finished in the rear end, it wa time to stonechip the underneath.

 

 

 

 

with that done, we looked at at repairing the top of the drivers side wing.

 

 

all cut out.

 

 

repair panel made.

 

 

all welded in with the slight scuttle repair that was needed.

 

 

thats it for tonight, more tomorrow. 

[MrBounce]

You really don't hang about do you?! On top of that both yours & your Dad's work is utterly awesome. Well done!

 

Are you going to keep it Pageant Blue?