Club Triumph

That seems really reasonable.

Keep up the great work and posts!

Some pictures after the body shell came out of the oven and before it was shot blasted.
And as a result all th edents are very clearly visible, a few nasty little dents on the roof ...





The same applies for both the rear wings ...



And the nose panel ...



A meeting is scheduled for tomorrow evening, to assess the damage and the work involved, and discuss the planning.

Been a bit quiet with progress on this car for a while,
But that is about to change as I dropped of the body shell today for a bit of welding  

Some progress, this is how the boot area looked a few days ago ...



This afternoon I was greeted by a very big hole were the boot and rear deck used to be ...



... revealing some more rot were the panel is fitted to the rear wings ...



And the front section of the spare wheel well has been repaired ...



And trial fitting the "new" rear panel ...

The boot area is almost sorted, with the donor boot floor welded in place. But it wasn't as straight forward as it looks  

Boot area and rear deck sorted, but again some problems there, mainly with dimension tolerances ...
British engineering at its best  

Time for some dent removal  





And a little bit of CAD as in Cardboard Aided Design ...  

Don't Speke to me ... or the saga with ill fitting panels continues ...



And this imprint of the front of the door in the right hand A-post ...



Explains why the door didn't fit as it should!

Took a while but early in the week I received the cloth for the cars interior.
Was well worth the wait, as the pattern is exactly as I wanted it to be ...



Compared to the original the red part of the pattern is slightly wider adding more colour to the interior.
And I went for a traditional square pattern as opposed to the slightly stretched pattern used by BL.

Is that the McBoonen tartan brother  ...seriously though that will go well

McBeans would have been good   but in reality it is a variation on the McKenzie tartan.

More ill fitting panels, resulting in some drastic actions ...





Also repaired the transmission tunnel ...



And a few other jobs.

Theo,
are you staying with 13" wheels, I also see youve welded up the caps on the floor....did you take the caps out and weld in thin plate equivalent, I'm cleaning up the footwells and was wondering if I should do the same  

Will be using the black banded steels that came off the DHC for this car, should look nice with the orange paint.

As for the holes in te floor, indeed steel plates cut to match the inside diameter of the holes and welded in place.
At least it adds some extra strength at the rear of the floor area, where the rear suspension pick up points are.

After dropping of the interior parts at a local car trimmer yesterday ...





I went over to see how the body work was progressing.
Turned out to be going pretty well, as I picked up the car today for the next stage ...



Not bad, especially as it was only away for 6 weeks  

With the bodywork complete some final pictures taken from my blog ...

All looks very neat and well done, as usual with your stuff, Beans. Every time I see one of your threads I think "Hmmm, I must get one of those wedges!"
Then it wears off, obviously. Maybe one of these days.....

Quoted from smithy

... I think "Hmmm, I must get one of those wedges!"
Then it wears off, obviously ...

Lovely looking shell - love all that clean metal and tidy welding. Bet it will be better than factory when you've finished.  

Thx Bob  

With the welding and panel work finished the car was again dropped of at Habraken Straalbedrijf for final shot blasting and coating with an epoxy primer less than two weeks ago ...



And today it was time to pick up the body, ready for its next stage, the paint preparations. And with all panels in one colour it starts to look like a car again. The pictures speak for themselves ...