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[Southy]

Thanks very much for all the comments keep them coming

Are you going to crop the roll cage bolts off so they're flush with the top of the nuts once you refit it? - you've got nice smooth lines everywhere else.

The bolts which are in the pictures are only temp ones just so the cage was held down so we got the plates for the floor in the right place.I am going to be using stainless ones when the cage goes back in with the bolt head sat on the underside.

[Racer_Pete]

Looking good, Keep it up

[Southy]

Right ive not really took all that many pictures tonight as ive been so dusty with all the sanding ive been doing.

Basically ive been rubbing down all the floor inside the car, the rear bins, the door post the front bulkhead and the dash rails. Ive had to apply some filler to the floor so, as like the underneath, to make it look nice and smooth and like no work has been done to the car so basically making the car look flawless.


The passenger side door fitted to check all the panel gaps are still correct


The sanded down floor looking rather clean with a couple of small sections of filler to smooth it back out where repairs have been made.

Its my night off tomorrow night (think im gonna catch up with some sleep) so the next update will be friday or saturday.

My dad is going to collect my wheels on saturday all being well so will have a picture of them.

[sweetser]

looking good mate.
what wheels you having??

[Southy]

Im going for the superlite 13x7's Extreme with the anthracite centre and polished rim

[dan_up850]

looking good mate, looks like a solid shell, keep it up matey.

[Southy]

Cheers for all your comments guys, no update today as its chill out evening and do i deserve it, think im gonna have a hot bath for my aching back ready to start work again on it tomorrow at 4 in the evening till god knows when....

[Southy]

Right got a little bit of an update for you guys, been busy working on the inside of the car yet again.First of all i had a little spot of welding to do on the passengers seat mount as it had crack in the box section and broke free, i then finished sanding all the floor down as someone had done a half hearted attempted at it then i finished flatting out all the little bits of weld on the inside of the car and sanded down the parts of iller on the floor to get a nice smooth finish.

I then did the same within the boot, flatted it all down for a perfect finish.Once everything was all nice and tidy i then began to apply stone chip all inside the car on the floors, on the back seat, the box section and inside the rear pockets rear parcel shelf and all inside the boot.


The repaired box section seat mount


Starting to apply stone chip to the floor

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The finished floor looking all nice and smooooooth


Nice clean and tidy boot now


4 cans of stone chip later we are done....

[dan_up850]

looking good mate, love when paint, primer, stonechip etc goes on, makes the car look more "together", if you know what i mean!! lol.

[Southy]

Yeah i understand you totally mate, up till the last few days or so when the car has gone into stone chip and etch primer it looked like we wasnt getting anywhere and i was kinda loosing hope but starting to see it in one colour again cheers you right up and gets you back on track

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Looks really nice! coming on goood.

[Down&Out]

gotta get it done by tomorrow

[Southy]

Dont you mean a WEEK tomorrow matey haha i dont think it will be done, sorry that should be it wont be done.
It will be going into paint the middle of this week and then i will start putting everything together.
Unfortunantly i aint had time to take pics today so you shall all have to wait in anticipation till i can get some tomorrow

[Down&Out]

i did wonder

[Southy]

Right its been a very long day today. With four of us working on the car today we got a hell of a lot done too the shell.We finished flatting the bodywork off and anywhere which required filler was filled and the flatted back down to the perfect contours of the car.
The doors and the bootlid were test fitted and the door shut lines were modified for a nice gap all the way around.


Applying filler to smooth any slight imperfections in the bodywork


Getting a nice even level line across the door gaps, door gaps were then cut back in afterwards.


The front scuttle after welding and filling the wiper blanks.


Welded up front seams and then filled smooth

The roll cage was finished flatting with 320's and where a front bar had been welded on and looked like poo was cut back off and filled smooth again to what it should look like.

Once all the car was flatted back once it had been filled, the car was completly cleaned out inside and out and then we have applied 4 litres of high build primer on the shell on the inside outside and underside and thats where we left it tonight to cure over night.


Shell looking one step further in hugh build primer


Nice smoooth bodywork


Just look how clean it is at the minute....


The interior in high build primer

The plan for tomorrow is to get it all or at least make a very good start on getting it all flatted back down nice and smooth and sort out any slight imperfections still in the bodywork ready for recieving paint on tuesdays evening or wedsnesday.

Let me all know what you think of it