1904vitesse Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Hi All, I have just created an album in the Gallery which shows some of the work that has been done up to date. The restoration started mid Nov 14 and the car was a non runner. The photo in the Album is of a car that looks like what my car looked like before she was sent away. She is a mk1 2ltr and the original colour was Damson which is what I intend for her to go back to. As you will see every bit of rot has been replaced with new metal only the rear wings where bought in all other panels where hand made, we went this root so a better grade of metal could be used and there would be less issues of bad fitting as they where made to the right size in the first place. You will notice the extra metal plates on the chassis, some cowboy had tried to restore the car before and when putting the car back together must of realised nothing would fit right, the remedy was to raise the centre of the car so the doors would align properly. They then went to work with the filler which in places was 10mm thick. All the welding is now done so chassis is off to the sand blasters then will be repinted and built back up using new parts where needed, other wise clean and paint existing parts. Engine will be stripped down and rebiult as required. Let me know what you think. http://forum.tssc.org.uk/index.php?/gallery/album/67-vitesse-1/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishmosh Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Great work. Can you do mine ! Way better than my ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Fantastic. I wish I had the skill (and the time) to be able to do something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Looks good! And a great inspiration for us who struggle with rust and welding... I look forward to see more pics when you assemble everything. Cheers, Roger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1904vitesse Posted April 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Thanks for the comments, Had a chat with the very skilled man ( stewart ) who is doing the restoration for me ( this skill of fabrication is well beyond my skill set ) and to date there has been over 200 hrs of work. This has and still is one massive project and I have to be grateful that he is a friend other wise the budget would have been blown out of the water. Will upload more pics as they happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1904vitesse Posted May 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 The car is know in paint along with the chassis, excuse the dust over the car and she is in damson even though some of the pics look a different shade this is due to the light. Hope you like let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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