Had my 16 year old brother over to stay for the past two days. I don't own a Playstation, so the entertainment options were work on the house, or work on the car.
So yesterday we put up some aluminium box guttering on my new garage, then went over to 83 Engineering to use the sandblaster. In the evening, Jels-of-83 came over and helped brace the door frames so I could cut-away the inner sills. He used my new GYS welder and deemed it pretty decent. I had my first go on it, too and I like it. It's a nice welder!
I'm narrowing-down my paint choices.
Loving the way the light catches the line of the car with matte paint. This is a paint called MetalMask, from POR-15. I have a tin of it because I've always wanted to paint a car in it. As it turned-out, it isn't right, but I don't think it's far off what I want. Either something along these lines, or Bahama Yellow.
My brother, Jels and I all watched the paint dry. At midnight we called it a day.
This morning I hacked the passenger-side inner sill away to reveal the heater tube. The wall of the tube was so thin that it crushed in my hands like tinfoil. Totally knackered. So, not knowing if I can get another, but not seeing an any alternative to removing it anyway, I cut it out.
Then I went at the driver-side sill. As expected, less rotten than the other, but still a bit of a mess. I try to remember this is a 50-year-old car, and it's generally pretty decent, and the bad bits aren't
too bad (right?).
The kidney bowl looked OK, but I still managed to bang a half-inch diameter hole in it with a screwdriver.
Peeling back the inner sill revealed solid metal throughout, and a rock-sold heater tube! Fantastic. I'll shoot this full of spray wax and weld it back up.
By this time it was 1.30PM. The car was about ready to go to the blasters, so a quick call to the local van hire company produced this totally legit transport method. This is my brother explaining that everything here is totally 100% legit, officer.
I couldn't find the switch for the Did Light
Give me a Transit any day of the week - this LDV was a noisy piece of crap. After two deafening hours we arrived at Enviro Strip in Tamworth and unloaded the 912 into a warehouse containing some other rusty Porsches. Nice guys - the owner Vaughan even helped unload the car. It took four people - I'm still not sure how my brother and I lifted it up from my garage onto the bed. Maybe my back will tell me tomorrow.
The pile of car-shaped bits to the left of mine is something that might one day be a 356, and the one behind is an SC. Both needed a magician to put them right.
Another two hours and we were home, hearing ruined for life. I filled my bin with the big heap of rust that the 912 had left behind on the garage floor.
