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[Ben_O]

looks good Tom.

 

Wouldn't you be better off leaving the lower rear panel until you get all the floors etc in?

Just a thought.

 

Ben

[ToM 2012]

THANKS BEN.  i could do but i was just going to get what i have solid and work my way around and down. hopefully it will be ok if i do it this way. cheers tom 

[olds_kool_lews]

If you were to brace the shell at the rear between the rear quarters so it doesn't move, it should make replacing the rear panel a bit more accurate, might be worth crisscrossing the floor area with bracing too so you don't get a wonky shell thats more / / than I I

[ToM 2012]

cheers mate its just the bottom half i am changing but i will put a brace bar accross just to hold it in the same place as it is. cheers tom 

[ToM 2012]

done a couple of hours tonight welded up scuttle holes and cleaned the garage up abit as it was getting messy lol i also want to ask.... i need to move the shell so i can get my engine and subframe out from the corner so i can strip it down ready to use for the floor how would you go about moving the shell? i was thinking brace bars across and then put as pallet with wheels underneath the bars? any other ideas you can think of let me no? cheers tom 

 

[Minilegs]

Fantastic tom ! Great progress indeed. I don't see why a pallet with wheels wouldn't work! As long as it supports all the places you currently have to support the shell , it can't not work. Unless your pallet isn't flat or it is and your floor was wonky lol

I just realised we working in opposite. I started at the bottom and worked up and you almost the other way round. Both plans seem to be working so far though !!!

[ToM 2012]

cheers mate ile give it ago. i was just thinking once i put the bars there and a pallet how am i going to put the floor in? lol need to prop it some way so nothings in the way. could do with a scaffold pole threw the middle but i dont have the rear seat bulkhead in. im sure there is a way. and yes we are almost the same i will have to pick your brains tho when i get on the floor on how you done it and etc. thanks tom 

[josh.goddard]

Hi Tom,

 i have just read this through from page 1 and massive credit to you. I am happy to see the car i was bidding on and lost on ebay went to good use and is being restored properly. i am going to buy an early riley elf or a mk1 once my mk4 and metro van are done, will be toward the end of next summer and this has been a big inspiration to do so! keep up the good work and i will carry on to follow the project !!! Josh 

[ToM 2012]

hi josh thanks  you was bidding on this car? 

[josh.goddard]

i did have a few bids but it went above what i wanted to be paying for it ! glad to see your doing the job properly and it didnt end up scraped 

 

Josh

[ToM 2012]

thats nice to no. he did say he had some chaps view it but they just wanted the parts of it and was going to scrap the shell. i thought you cant do that! lol i did offer him £700 cash when i went to view it but it only went for £790 on ebay so i was chuffed plus he lives a few streets up from me so didnt have to pay much for collection and drop of. did you go and view it? cheers tom 

[ToM 2012]

little update got the rear panel grinded back 

[ToM 2012]

and it doesnt look to bad a few patches will need doing but saves buying a new rear panel. any ideas how big the bottom sections you can buy how far they go up? whats your thoughts on the rear panel? also like to say i am white all over and i can hardley breath after all that filler and old paint i had to grind out lol here is some piccys cheers tom 

 

[josh.goddard]

i just went in blind thinking it wasnt that bad :L

[ToM 2012]

lol it ay to bad really