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[MrBounce]

Absolutely amazing! Love love love it!

[mk1leg]

great progress your a skillfull man.........

[Tupers]

love this build lovely work !

Absolutely amazing! Love love love it!

great progress your a skillfull man.........

Thanks guys I do enjoy turning out good work and I'm glad you're all enjoying it.



The new flitches arrived this week and I set about modifying them to correct MK1 spec.


As they're based on late van pressings they have indents for MK3 air vents and wiper motor recess that need removing.


After cutting the lumps and bumps out I did a little gentle shaping and got the new section tacked in.


Then it was just a case of slowly welding between the tacks to avoid distortion and linishing down the seam.

[Tupers]

I got the second flitch smoothed out this afternoon in between fitting floors into a '68 Hornet .


All chopped out.


Nice new contoured pieces flushed in.




Once it was all done Jon bolted the front end up while I carried on welding the floors into the Hornet.


After all that was done Dad cleaned up and re-bushed a set of hinges and we got the O/S A-panel welded on. (Wing had already been lined up then removed for better access)

[Tupers]

So dad's been pressing on with the Crayford and It's now all but ready for the wings and front panel to be fitted.

The original rad cowl has been plug welded onto the new flitch but we chose to braze the commission number on from the back and at the same angle as the original to keep it looking factory.




Dad also saved the NMP tag from the front panel and brazed it onto the new one.


While he was at it he replaced the latter number plate brackets with the MK1 versions and added the tea strainer for the heater intake.


And last but not least all of the welds inside the flitches have been linished down and the whole lot zinced and primed as well as the inside of the wings.

[hughJ]

My word that is some skilled work. Even looking at the lie of the bonnet along the inner wing. Sure wish I'd done mine better. Thanks for showing how it should be done!

Hugh

[mk1leg]

now is that you and your clubman in this months mag............

[CobraV8]

It is impressive looking at your work, and shows just how much work there is to do it right. Any idea of the total hours it will take?

[CLM]

Since you are going through all the work, any thoughts to replacing the larger late front turn signal plinths with earlier ones pulled from a donor panel?

Your work is definitely beautiful by the way :)

Chris

[Tupers]

My word that is some skilled work. Even looking at the lie of the bonnet along the inner wing. Sure wish I'd done mine better. Thanks for showing how it should be done!

Hugh

Thanks Hugh it takes a little time to get everything pointing in the same direction but it's worth it in the end.

now is that you and your clubman in this months mag............

It is indeed awkward poses and all.

It is impressive looking at your work, and shows just how much work there is to do it right. Any idea of the total hours it will take?

There's around 180 hours in the metal work so far and probably that much again to get on the road.

Since you are going through all the work, any thoughts to replacing the larger late front turn signal plinths with earlier ones pulled from a donor panel?

Your work is definitely beautiful by the way :)

Chris

Don't fear we'll be replacing those and also fitting the correct rounded valance corners.

[mk1leg]

ah good.....have you a build thread for the clubman.......aswell......

[okc78]

Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, a fantastic job your doing there and its really helping me with the bodywork of my mkII. Did you use heritage inner/outer A panels or patern for this car? Have you any experience of the pattern ones? I'd like to use them as there so much cheaper, I don't mind a little re-shaping but wont bother if they simply don't fit, what do you think?
Cheers

[rally515]

Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, a fantastic job your doing there and its really helping me with the bodywork of my mkII. Did you use heritage inner/outer A panels or patern for this car? Have you any experience of the pattern ones? I'd like to use them as there so much cheaper, I don't mind a little re-shaping but wont bother if they simply don't fit, what do you think?
Cheers

I,ve bought these inners for my project & at first sight or line up with the outer there crap as the seam stip part which spot weld them to the wing seem strip is all bend & wavy due to it being pressed, but once you hammer & dolly it right they line up well together.

As for car fitment i cant see how they could be bad to be honest.

[Tupers]

ah good.....have you a build thread for the clubman.......aswell......

I do indeed, it's only 39 pages shouldn't take you long to read. Clicky

Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, a fantastic job your doing there and its really helping me with the bodywork of my mkII. Did you use heritage inner/outer A panels or patern for this car? Have you any experience of the pattern ones? I'd like to use them as there so much cheaper, I don't mind a little re-shaping but wont bother if they simply don't fit, what do you think?
Cheers

The outer A-panels are Heritage and the inners are pattern from Mini Spares. Clicky
They went together very well, all we had to was punch holes in them and trim down the section that connects to the outer sill as it was a little long.

[okc78]

Thanks for the advice, I'll go with the mini spares inner pattern ones then.