That Vestey car….

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Your Mark is good!
Love seeing the skill to cut the holes out much larger than the rust holes and filled/dressed invisibly, admirable skill.
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love these details 8) .. I never knew there were these differences
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Just joined in on this. Great story.
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911hillclimber wrote: Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:21 am Your Mark is good!
Love seeing the skill to cut the holes out much larger than the rust holes and filled/dressed invisibly, admirable skill.
Press on!
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Yep, there’s no filler at all on here, just a bit of etch primer sprayed after dressing the butt welds back. It’s the only way he’s worked for 17 years or so 8)
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The ignition barrel was still in the dash when I got the car so I thought I’d try my luck and get a key cut to the cardex code from Sierra Madre… it arrived and it fits! Good result 8)

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I’ve also been raiding the barns a bit and am stacking up some Vestey shelves with bits for it

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Love the way this is progressing
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Mark has been busy on the rear shelf today. 2 rear shelf’s later we decided that none of them were any good, so the base one of a Dansk was used as it had better ribs than the RD one. The outer edges on both were pretty poor so the shape was restamped to get the proper recess for the rear air vent pipe. RD brackets were then corrected to factory spec as per the originals and fitted. It’s currently tacked in place while we await the rear window lower panel from D911.

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Less holes in the car equals a happy Dai :lol:
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Remember the buckled and twisted rear panel?

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It’s not rusty, so I said it’s shame to replace metal that’s not rusty. That’s all the encouragement Mark needed to get the hammers out 8)

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This is as far as he managed to get today. He stressed the importance of pointing out that IT IS NOT FINISHED YET but it’s looking saveable which is nice! That’s the original catch in the middle which is working perfectly too. Really happy we are saving this piece 8)

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The part timer has knocked off for the weekend now. More Monday hopefully!!
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Love a swb project

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Brilliant stuff
The simple things you see are all complicated
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That’s some dedicated work, nicely done :)
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I’ve been pretty slack at updates… sorry :lol: Anyways, a lot of ordering, waiting, measuring, pulling, pushing, and Mark has also had to spend some time on other peoples vehicles.. (how dare he!!!)😂

More work has gone on at the front with repairs to the inner wings. Carefully cut back and butt welded as usual-

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The small corner bits have also arrived but have yet to go on.
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Next is an example of how we chat while he’s cracking on. While the front panel was being fitted we were sending pics back and forth on WhatsApp with scribbles on them to reference what we are talking about. It works well 8)

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In this instance we were talking about the factory welds holding the front panel to the inner wings. Luckily I have a reference car that hasn’t been interfered with to check for this sort of thing, it actually left the factory the day after this rhd, so is probably as close a comparison as I’ll get. This is the reference car and the welds we were discussing:

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The next stage of this dance was pushing and pulling the metal around to get the dash back to where it should be. It had been bent down/in/out to varying degrees by some animal in the past. These pics were sent to me by Mark saying it’s about 95% there now. The screen template lines up well at the base, the screen corners have been repaired, the valence seems to sit quite right… it’s looking like progress 8)

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I’m thinking I should really pull my finger out on engine stuff around now…
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