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nice work Barry

I too am looking forward to seeing this car come together now ... isn't restoring a car a rollercoaster of emotions ?

You da man Mr Carter!

Bertroex wrote: Barry can cook?



Bert

Yes I can confirm Barry is the master of beans on cheesy toast

Very nice work!!!

Barry saves another one! Top work

Finished by the end of the month now then Steve

Really enjoyed reading this. That takes nerves to crank it up to 10 tons of pressure. The end result is great the panel gaps look perfect to me.

Great work by Barry and I'm delighted to see that Steve's back on track with his car - looking forward to seeing it finished and I'm sure all your hard work will be worthwhile in the end.

Whilst Barry's workshop isn't large, when I bought and collected the engine stand from Steve I was stunned by the (lack of) space you had to work in .

Ian Donkin wrote:
Whilst Barry's workshop isn't large, when I bought and collected the engine stand from Steve I was stunned by the (lack of) space you had to work in .

Yes I have a severe lack of space working in a single garage is challenging enough for most jobs on a car but trying to rebuild the full car in a single garage that is housing all the parts from the car aswell is a task im not looking forward to. I just hope I have some nice dry days when the car is back from paint so I can work on the car on the drive

Steve

On the other hand, there really is nothing quite like putting a car back together: it's a double bonus, as you clear more and more space in the garage and see the car coming together .

BTW, When I did the Cappo earlier in the year, I had a gazebo to work under. I know the Porsche is a bit bigger, but some sort of shelter is ideal if you're pushing the car out into the open in changable weather. Just saves either sheeting up (and scratching the paint) or wheeling it back in, just as you'd laid all of the next load of parts out across the garage floor .

Barry wrote:BTW, When I did the Cappo earlier in the year, I had a paper cocktail umbrella on a stick to work under.

Quite an achievement then!

Unfortunately the guy doing the body work has not been spurred on by Barry’s excellent turn around with sorting the door gap issues out and the work as ground back to a snails pace. It seems he’s going for the full 12 months which is only about 2 weeks away. So not much to report unfortunately.

A couple of jobs that have been sorted are the torsion bar covers which posed a bit of a problem as I have the G50 setup I needed the larger torsion bar holes. The Porsche covers for these holes are pretty ugly to say the least as they are supposed to be covered by sill covers. The way they mount was also a problem as basically they are screwed to the sill with two M10 bolts from the outside which is not very attractive or original looking for that matter.



My solution to this was to trim them down so they didn’t have the overlap that they originally would have I then welded two M10 studs to each one so they could be bolted from the back to make them as flush fitting as possible, Im pretty pleased with the outcome and although not quite original in appearance its allot better than the original G50 solution.



The other bit of work that has been done is to finish of the lining up of the fiber glass bumpers. Basically I bought a Martin and Walker RS bumper without the middle section as I wanted to retain the overriders. This meant I had no mounts as the fiber glass mount would not hold the weight so I had to cut the mounts off my old bumpers and bond them to the fiber glass.





All the prepping on the car is now finally finished apart from the final wet sand and hopefully the car will have been under sealed today, so with any look I will have some pictures of it in some colour in the next couple of weeks (touch wood)



Steve

Ready just in time for xmas then

Finaly we have some sealer on the car, theres a couple of patches where the texture is different but for the most part it looks pretty good.







Steve

Barry out of interest would you have had to jack the body past the orginal point and then let off the jacks so as it would back off back to where it is ment to be. Just interested in how strong the body work really is..