63 replies to this topic

[bananaman]

Glad to here you've got it back. Are you going to repaint it as the general again, or do you have something else in mind?

[Tupers]

This might sound cruel but it's really nice to see an Estate that's a rotten as mine.

Keep up the good work, your welds look pretty decent.

[icedaddyuk]

This might sound cruel but it's really nice to see an Estate that's a rotten as mine.

Keep up the good work, your welds look pretty decent.

It really is rotten in places. Spent some time cutting out dodgy metal today, the plasma cutter makes it much quicker. I don't have any box section for bracing to cut out the sills. Hopefully start to put some metal in tomorrow.

[icedaddyuk]

Love the delivery guy

Lots of new metal arrived today to add to the two front floors, rear subframe repair panels and A-Panels I already have:

Front rear wheel arch closing both sides
Rear floors both sides
Inner sills both sides
Door jam and flitch both sides

Plenty to be getting on with, only poor welding skills as an excuse!

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Nice!

[Scallywag630]

Good to see another saved.

[icedaddyuk]

This weekend I have mostly .........


Been tidying up the front subframe, painting it in stages with red oxide







And starting work on the flitch panel, how it looked before and now

[MiniBonkerz]

any updates?

[icedaddyuk]

Yup.

Pretty much finished the drivers side front floor and flitch. Needs a bit of tidying up for me to be completely happy with it.

I've moved the shell to the other side of the garage so I can start on this section now, this is going to be one of the hardest bits IMO. I've made a start on it, got the floor, inner sill and outer side out.

[MiniBonkerz]

That does look bad how do you bend your sheet to form perfect 90 degree angles?

[leaky]

Come on then. Got any updates?

[icedaddyuk]

Not really, hardly had any time to get involved. The good thing is now it's blasted and primed it can't really get any worse if I leave it!

Hoping to get a few days off work whilst it's warm and dry to make some progress. Might even try and get the shell outside for some Vitamen D

[olds_kool_lews]

lookin good! i got an estate the other week, similar orange colour, but mines standard, n needs a little less work than yours! but still needs the inner wings repaired, and the front foot wells! will be keeping my eye on this one!

[icedaddyuk]

Unfortunately I'm on the cusp of giving up with this, at least this shell anyway.

I get very little time to work on it and very low on motivation as it needs a hell of a lot of work that I have absolutely no idea how to do!

Currently the main job list stands at:

two new front wings
a panels
flitch panels
replace the front floors that I've put in badly
new rear floors
sills
new rear arches
scuttle ends
rear front subframe mounts


Plus lots of little odd jobs around. I may have the opportunity of getting hold of another Clubman estate that's been garage bound for ten years so i'm going to take a look around that before continuing with this I was planning on getting someone in to do a couple of days work in the New Year to jump start but I'm not sure it's worth it.

I'll get some more pics up later today.

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[icedaddyuk]

UPDATE:

The shell is now for sale booooooooo!

Because I have bought another one with less work to do yesssssss! Collect the new one in 3 weeks. Body is a lot better and will save me plenty of time.

Currently looks like this .....

Edited by icedaddyuk, 13 February 2011 - 01:12 PM.