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Truly amazing work your doing, looking forward to watching it progress. I'm guessing this is going to be a stunningly well finished car when your done.

Jared wrote:Truly amazing work your doing, looking forward to watching it progress. I'm guessing this is going to be a stunningly well finished car when your done.

Thanks

Continuing along the rear wing the rotten floor was replaced along the edge...[frame][/frame]

So that the rear spring hanger panel could be fitted...[frame][/frame]

And welded in place...[frame][/frame]

The outer flange was repaired at both ends and a new panel cut from flat steel and welded in...[frame][/frame]

All done for now...[frame][/frame]

So it's back to the front and the other side, this is where I got up to...[frame][/frame]

First the lower part of the hinge panel was fitted...[frame][/frame]

And dressed off...[frame][/frame]

The door was fitted to check the gap to B-pillar and the wing was loosely fitted too...[frame][/frame]

Once the door gap was set, the area was prepared...[frame][/frame]

And the closing panel fitted...[frame][/frame]

And dressed off, sorry about the picture quality...[frame][/frame]

Neil MG wrote:And the closing panel fitted...[frame][/frame]

Looking good! Are you using a spot welder or are these plug welds?

They are plug welds. I have the power turned right up to make sure there is good penetration (getting a small pip on the other side) and with practice they are getting better and better.

Super work!! Could do with you over for a couple of days to sort the rest of the 54

Moving back now to the boxing panel extension and lots of pictures for you Sparticus! This is what we have, a typical scene once the spring hanger is removed. This area should form a continuous box section that forms the outer chassis rail and runs from the front wheelarch to back of the car (past the rear spring hanger). I used the floor repair section that has the inner sill step attached. ?This forms the inner and upper sides of the "box".[frame][/frame]

There is a repair panel available for the outer section, but as you can see it is not like the original. The hole should be rectangular and you can see that the original area has an overlapping panel too. The good thing is that the shape of the hole doesn't matter and I will not be using the part of the panel where the overlap is.[frame][/frame]

This looks mighty complicated. Be interested to see how you attack this.