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[BigEnd]

Early type 3 notchback and fast backs are one of my all time faves. If you get one of those and do the same to it as your sisters motor, send me the thread link, I'm all....er.....eyes

...and all the best with the job Peter!

Edited by BigEnd, 16 February 2008 - 07:14 PM.

[panelbeaterpeter]

Something along these lines...



Although that's an estate obviously.

[mini_surfari]

Awesome paint job!

Good luck with the job!

I've always wanted a 21 window samba van... i'll get one one day.

[Bungle]

you had better get saving

[jack_marshall]

Welcome to the dark side lad!

Doing older stuff is so much more interesting than modern C**p!

[frankiebateman]

RIGHT. Got to the garage at 8 o clock thismorning, Just got home

Found the nearside rear quarter was just as warped and full of filler as the offside!!

Anyway, sorted that out as thus.

Worst of the filler dug out


Step welded and filled


Rear quarter re-filled and masked


Primed




Cut


Ground and welded





It is also a good idea to remove the sealant from inside the boot, saves it going up in flames when welding! I didn't do this, so I had lots of little bonfires, it was rather festive.

When it's all welded up, re-seal the panel join inside the boot


Thats all for now, sorting out the front when my energy has returned.

Just been looking at the pics and just noticed my rear end isnt like this :S the bit inderneath is more backwards so it doesnt smooth off properly how can i sort this ?

[Bungle]

remove the whole valance fit in the right place the weld back on

[frankiebateman]

Ok will do

[panelbeaterpeter]

Yeah pretty much! you could push it back in line from behind and re-profile it with filler, but it would be far from ideal.

[mk1leg]

Hi..Peter love what you've done look mucking fagic...................

[panelbeaterpeter]

Righto, had a bit of a bad day. Got into work to find that last night, some lowlife had broken into the yard at work and has walked all over the roof and bonnet. They also threw all the parts that were inside it all over the place, and stole some aerosols out of the boot. GUTTED. The roof and bonnet were properly caved in, the roof was dented in about 6 inches in places. I removed the new headlining that I fitted a few weekends back, and hit out the worst of the dents. I've removed 90% of the damage, but the roof is still very badly dented. The dents in the bonnet have come out ok, but it still will need further work to get right. It's at least 2 weekends of work to fix it all, the roof will have to be filled pretty much all over and re-primed and repainted. Bloody typical, the car's been there under a cover for 4 months now, and the night before I'm due to take it home, someone goes and does that. I went to the Lidl next door to work, to see if they had CCTV, they don't, and it turned out they were broken into last night as well. I have reported it to the police, hopefully they will catch the little (rhymes with runts).

The worst beaten out.

Roof

Bonnet


Anyway, after a morning feeling sorry for myself I decided to just to get cracking, and sort out the roof and the bonnet when the rest of it is all done.

Refitted the headlining, it's not as nice as it was first time, but it's okay.


Fitted windows



I got a mate to move it for me on his truck, it's now at my own garage, all locked up safe!


Also got new wheels on Flo..



Might get the doors built up tomorrow.

Peace.

Edited by panelbeaterpeter, 01 March 2008 - 10:38 PM.

[bert998]

What the???

Cu nts.

Edited by bert998, 01 March 2008 - 09:49 PM.

[panelbeaterpeter]

What the???

Cu nts.

My thoughts exactly.

[camp freddy]

Righto, had a bit of a bad day. Got into work to find that last night, some lowlife had broken into the yard at work and has walked all over the roof and bonnet. They also threw all the parts that were inside it all over the place, and stole some aerosols out of the boot. GUTTED. The roof and bonnet were properly caved in, the roof was dented in about 6 inches in places. I removed the new headlining that I fitted a few weekends back, and hit out the worst of the dents. I've removed 90% of the damage, but the roof is still very badly dented. The dents in the bonnet have come out ok, but it still will need further work to get right. It's at least 2 weekends of work to fix it all, the roof will have to be filled pretty much all over and re-primed and repainted. Bloody typical, the car's been there under a cover for 4 months now, and the night before I'm due to take it home, it gets someone goes and does that. I went to the Lidl next door to work, to see if they had CCTV, they don't, and it turned out they were broken into last night as well. I have reported it to the police, hopefully they will catch the little (rhymes with runts).

The worst beaten out.

Roof

Bonnet


Anyway, after a morning feeling sorry for myself I decided to just to get cracking, and sort out the roof and the bonnet when the rest of it is all done.

Refitted the headlining, it's not as nice as it was first time, but it's okay.


Fitted windows



I got a mate to move it for me on his truck, it's now at my own garage, all locked up safe!


Also got new wheels on Flo..



Might get the doors built up tomorrow.

Peace.

Really sorry to hear that pete, sure you''ll sort it out ok.

by the way what colour red is Flo ? bute

[panelbeaterpeter]

Really sorry to hear that pete, sure you''ll sort it out ok.

by the way what colour red is Flo ? bute

Cheers Freddy, yeah I'll sort it out, it's just really disheartening.

Flo's Flame red, code is COF.

Edited by panelbeaterpeter, 01 March 2008 - 10:07 PM.