Another weekend down and more achieved. I have removed the L/H corner and cut the panel to fit, finished welding the R/H side in and refitted the bubble arch. The way I am fittin the arch is with rivets and a urethane adhesive whek I have finished filling the panel the whole quarter will be glassed over. the reasons for this is essentially 2 fold 1 to support the filler and  to prevent cracking and 2 to assist in reducing damage from stones and gravel it will also give a smoother look once painted (lets face it this car is not going to be a show car so I will do what I can to hide how rough it is)

the L/H corner removed

The new panel ready to be tacked in

                                     
The line of urethane adhesive ready for the arch

the arch in place

This weekend has seen some progress made. I have cut out the R/R corner and fitted the new corner in and tacked it in place Fortunately the old panels were so far out of shape I could fit the panel straight over the old and had no distortion

The new panel sitting in place

And riveted in place before being welded in

I riveted the panel in place first then tacked it in place there was a small amount of work with the hammer and dolly mainly around the upper curves but when the arch is refitted and filled with filler it will look as good as new. I will also be filling in the seams on the rear under the window so that will finish the corners off nicely

I picked up the clean panels this morning, bought them home and gave them a coat of anti rust epoxy as winter has set in and the bare steel will quickly get surface rust on the steel but at least I have something to do indoors during the wet weather. I need to get some more argon for the welder and I will be away with more repairs.The car is going to take a lot longer that I originally thought but fortunately my mate is not doing the winter series at Hampton Downs in his single seater so it will give me at least 4 extra weekends at home.

This is the patch that I made up for the R/H boot drip rail

Above is the R/H strut tops

the L/H strut tops

The boot floor there is a bi of rust in it but not too bad

The L/H rear corner

The R/H rear corner The purple tinge is the epoxy spray this will eventually go black

I have not achieved a lot lately.However I have cut up the rear cut and the panels that I need are getting acid dipped at the moment to remove all the paint underseal and what rust there is. The rear L/H corner has been cleaned off so that I can see how much needs to be replaced and fortunately it is not as bad as the R/H side mainly the taillight area, I found a small patched up (bogged) rust hole in the L/H front corner of the boot drip channel have welded a patch in there. I have also taken the car off the rotisserie so that I can complete the panel repairs in the boot area and then remove the front panel as this will need to be replaced along with the lower radiator support panel and some chassis rust repairs and the replacment strut tops and as I found last night I may need to replace the upper L/H A pillar both inner and outer as they are quite badly rusted away. Fortunately this is not as hard as it could be as I have the roll cage to hold this area in place while I do it. So it keeps moving forward all be it slowly.

The L/H taillight

The small patch of rust repaired in the drain

These 2 are the pics of the rust in the L/H A pillar

Hi All
I have just arrived back from Tauranga with the rear cut and also a couple of strut tops The rear will be cut into sections to repair what areas are in the worst condition and the strut tops will replace the rusty ones that I have so it was a very succesful weekend I also caught some Jazz as Tauranga holds a Jazz music weekend every easter so in all I am a happy man and on the bonus side my better half managed to get in some shopping with her best freind so she returned to Auckland happy as well
Peter

from the right side

Inner right

across the rear

the left side

inner left

boot floor this does have some rust but it is minor

The left strut top

the right strut

As I have mentioned I have managed to locate a ew things for the car here are photos of what I have bought to date and this morning we are heading to Tauranga about 2 1/2 hours drive away to get a rear cut

Sorry about the colour it was like ths when I got it and I will repaint it and it will be rebuilt before going in te car 

This is a large tunnel from Palmside in Chistchurch

Well it has been a couple of good weeks. I have picked up the engine and gearbox, I have purchased a large gearbox tunnel which I will be picking up today and it looks like I have sourced a good rear cut and hopefully struttops which I will pick up this coming weekend. so we should see some serious progress in the coming weeks. Keep coming back to check on how I am going.
Peter