a weekend of nitromors, and some bad news.

Post by **limegreen** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:20 pm

so, after a long weekend of nitromors, masks and gloves, i've gotten most of the paint off my poor chrome.
the badge and ornament are looking good, as are the interior handles and things, along with two hubcaps! i've done the top piping around her grille, and now i only have the bumpers, mirrors, light surrounds and main grill to go.
boy-oh-boy. she looks way better with that black off her!

next up: brakes!

we also discovered her rust is worse than we thought, in removing the front light surriounds, i managed to get my hand between the main and the indicator.. and through the panel. completely rotted through - her new-ish paint job had decieved us all.

looks like we have either a lot of fibreglassing to do, or a lot of welding on plates.

oh dear.

Post by **Dean** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:37 pm

Sorry to hear of your problems

. If you get time to post some pictures, we may be able to help guide you and help in some way. Obviously not physical help but, there is a lot of enthusiasm on here which helps get people through their problems. ;)

Post by **ani** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:41 pm

You must be a bit disappointed - its the only thing that stops me from doing this to the pick-up - worried that lots of paint is holding some bits together

Don't fret, as Dean says, loads of help here, you'll get so much help you won't know what to do with it all

Just remember it will look good again - soon and will keep you out of the pub

Good Luck

Post by **PSL184** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:27 pm

Replacement panels are cheap enough new and even cheaper secondhand. If you post up what parts you need then I would guess that we'll have them all available for you, somewhere.... I've got a passenger front wing that will be going to the tip shortly so its free if you, or anyone wants it - It's not perfect but there are no holes in it either

Post by **limegreen** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:59 pm

thanks for all the encouragement guys! I am a little dissapointed, as the guy who sold it to us said it was structurally sound, the silly man! anyways, it's just another adventure and will keep me busy over the summer.
my dad is restoring both a 49 ford pickup and a 32 (fibreglass) ford roadster at the moment, so i've got a lot of help from him, which i'm very thankful for!

(although he does have a slight vendetta against mogs >:)

PSL184, I've PM'd you about that wing! It's the passenger wing that has the big hole in it!

Post by **LouiseM** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:25 am

I am a little dissapointed, as the guy who sold it to us said it was structurally sound, the silly man!

Always a good idea to throroughly inspect the car yourself rather than accept the word of the seller. Hope you didn't spend too much on it though as when I first saw it on e-bay it had a buy it now price of £799, with no MOT!

Anyway, good luck with sorting everything out. If you need any advice just post a question up on the board and someone will be able to answer

Post by **limegreen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:27 am

LouiseM wrote:
I am a little dissapointed, as the guy who sold it to us said it was structurally sound, the silly man!
Always a good idea to throroughly inspect the car yourself rather than accept the word of the seller. Hope you didn't spend too much on it though as when I first saw it on e-bay it had a buy it now price of £799, with no MOT!

Anyway, good luck with sorting everything out. If you need any advice just post a question up on the board and someone will be able to answer

Well, I can say we got it for lower than that! The interior, electrics and fiddly bits are all sound, it just seems to be some of the panels that need a little love :3

Post by **rayofleamington** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:46 am

Don't worry too much about wings - they bolt on and can be changed.
The most important thing is the real structure of the shell (sills, inner wings, chassis legs, rear chassis extensions, centre crossmember etc..)

Oh and btw - did you have any thoughts on those rear wings yet? I was thinking of ebaying them. No great rush but I need to shift parts by September as I won't have much space after then.

Post by **limegreen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:09 pm

rayofleamington wrote:Don't worry too much about wings - they bolt on and can be changed.
The most important thing is the real structure of the shell (sills, inner wings, chassis legs, rear chassis extensions, centre crossmember etc..)

Oh and btw - did you have any thoughts on those rear wings yet? I was thinking of ebaying them. No great rush but I need to shift parts by September as I won't have much space after then.

True, true, it does seem to be only the wings - everything else has had a decent inspection - the roof, bonnet, boot, chassis.. etc are all sound, just the back end of the bottom (where the bottom of the back doors would be on a 4-door) needs a little attention - a slight rust has happened there. The chassis is definetly good though, it'd been repainted and rustproofed before they took it off the road, it might need a tiny touch up, but it's good. I'm glad for dad's knowledge at fixing! His first job was re-leading rolls-royces and repairing boats, an odd mix, but very useful. Our garage is full of ford parts at the moment, hopefully we can shift those soon to make room for the mog to go in and be worked on.

Go ahead and ebay those wings, I'l let my dad know, and if he deems it urgent enough, I'm sure he'll have a bid at them.

Post by **alainmoran** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:01 pm

Umm ... the bit at 'the back end of the bottom' ... can I be the first to say EEEK

I truly hope that your cills & inner wings arent in the shape that mine were!

Post by **limegreen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:24 pm

alainmoran wrote:Umm ... the bit at 'the back end of the bottom' ... can I be the first to say EEEK

I truly hope that your cills & inner wings arent in the shape that mine were!

It seems to just be a bit of surface rust (: I'm not too worried about that, it's easy enough to fix. It looks like the previous owner has covered it in anti-rust paint. Tehee.

Post by **limegreen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:51 pm

here's an artsy picture of some of that hard work i did over the weekend - it needs polishing and repainting logo-wise, but otherwise it came up
good!
terribly sorry if it stretches the page >:

Post by **rayofleamington** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:05 pm

that just looks sooo much better

Post by **polo2k** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:29 pm

how did it look?

Post by **captain_70s** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:58 pm

polo2k wrote:how did it look?

If I remeber correctly the chrome was all painted black.
Why anybody would do that is beyond me, poor car. At least its getting back into shape now.

Sorry to hear about the front wings, but at least they aren't a bit thats holding the car together! As long as the good bits are solid you can bolt on solid new wings, its all money though.

Post by **limegreen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:04 pm

It certainly does look much better! That black paint was really tough stuff - they'd put about 15 layers on, I swear! I think they wanted all the chrome to be black, to go with the whole 'Riddler' theme. Ah well, different people, different onions.

We've decided to go with a set of new fibreglass front wings, so we can cut out all rust problems and replace them easily if needed. I'm off to uni next year, so it seems sensible, as I'll be far away from any welding equipment. (Thankyou very much PSL184, for your offer of a very decent looking metal one!)

Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:30 pm

If I remeber correctly the chrome was all painted black.
Why anybody would do that is beyond me, poor car.

my wife painted the chrome on her dads brand new pug 304 white to match the rest of the car.. she was 5 at the time.. she admits she was lucky to see her 6th birthday!

Post by **8009STEVE** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:42 pm

I'm off to uni

Which one?

Post by **hotrodder13** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:24 pm

i know this is off topic but can i see a pic of your dads 32 roadster. my dad has a 32 coupe.

Post by **limegreen** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:36 pm

8009STEVE wrote:
I'm off to uni
Which one?

Hopefully Wrexham! It's the only place in the country that does Illustration for Children's Publishing, which is basically my dream job.

hotrodder13 wrote:i know this is off topic but can i see a pic of your dads 32 roadster. my dad has a 32 coupe.

It's fibreglass and on a landrover chassis, we have an old ford flathead to go in it hopefully this summer - it needs work, but I'll post up some pics when I can! Coupes are lovely! I kinda wish ours had a roof.