Finnish Francesca, 1973 targa resto

[keith fellowes]

With all his amazing skills, I'm sure Barry could actually make a shell from scratch.

The first resto of his that i saw on here was the green TR3, absolutely fantastic

[Bigfoot]

Come on mike, get some posting done fella, you getting way behind keep them coming

[andy888]

[210bhp]

Where were we up to then. Oh yes, Barry had decided the rear inner wing had too many small soft areas to deal with individually so the entire section was cut out. A new piece was made free form using the old section as a pattern and a lot of skill and as Barry says "a couple of secret tricks". My words seem inadequate somehow.














Regards
Mike

[210bhp]

And then this is what Barry calls "a bit of tidying up"







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Mike

[210bhp]

Overall the poorer left hand side looking as good as the other side now. Marvelous work.







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Mike

[210bhp]

To the untrained eye like mine that looks like a good job and all is complete but Barry spotted something at the strut apertures and suggested to me that he would take a closer look at a small pinhole....







It's an evil thing, rust, hides in every corner, but this repair was routed out, repaired and the same repair done on the other side.









Regards
Mike

[210bhp]

So where else could the dreaded rust be hiding on a shell that looked 'not bad' in the first place?

Regards
Mike

[yoda]

Very telling pictures Mike and great work by Barry.

If anyone ever tells me their early 911 is rust free, I don't think I'll ever be able to believe them!

[davep]

So where else could the dreaded rust be hiding on a shell that looked 'not bad' in the first place?

Anywhere that two (or more) pieces of metal overlap. That is pretty much every panel on the body. This suggests every spot weld is suspect.

[kvinyl]

Not sure why but I find this particular in-process photo very satisfying

[andy888]

updates please!

[jtparr]

+1...c'mon Mike...it's been aaaaages.....

[jb]

It looks fabulous!

[210bhp]

Remember this thread?

Sorry for the gap in progress but I was seriously fed up with the photo-bucket debacle that I felt the lack of previous pictures rather spoilt the thread. I tried several times to effectively regain the images using the chrome-fix and was even more fed up when it only partially worked. Then I remembered. (Doh) Before photobucket pulled the images they sent a warning and I immediately switched picture host to BobblePic for the uploads and guess what. They too pulled the plug on hosting. No wonder I couldn’t get the rest of the pictures up.

So, anybody got a fix for bobblepic? I can’t find one but appreciate any help.

Back with the story.

I left things with Barry investigating a tiny pinhole on the front strut openings, both sides the same.
These were the last pictures I think I posted.

Pinhole

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Reveal



Fixed (leaving a factory like weld, marvellous)



Barry had straightened the floor out previously but wanted an improvement along the centre tunnel so he set to work.



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I hope to get this thread back on track but if postimage decide to pull the plug you will hear the screams from Scotland.

Regards
Mike