Well there has been little progress on the GT except to rearrange
the garage and move it up the corner out of the way while we decide
what to do with it. Further investigation into the state of the
shell has revealed that it has rot in some very nasty places and
it maybe better if it had a heritage reshell rather than spend
many many hours welding it up. There is plenty of time to make
this decision as we have several other mini projects ongoing and
i've decided that i'll do this one last, spend plenty of time on
it (and no doubt plenty of money!) and do it justice.
2-December-2004
I have some more news about the history of the car, see the intro
section!
Repaired the jacking point area and also fitted a new support
piece to the back near where the subframe mounts are. The outer sill is
now ready to be welded in but I didn't get a chance to do it
as I painted it all up and had to wait ages for it to dry.
Ok, so this was all stuff I did back on the 23rd but I only
just got round to writing it up!
14-November-2004
A new A panel has been installed
on the drivers side. This was my first bit of panel work that
I had to decide what I was going to do about the body deseaming.
I'm currently in the process of replacing the right outer sill.
This has been made less straight forward as I need to make repairs
to the jacking point area. Once this is in place I can tackle
the rear wheel arch.
10-Oct-2004
After taking a break from the car for a few weeks I finally
got back into it by buying some large welding clamps and getting
90% of the new floor welded
in. I've also removed the rear
wheelarch and it's revealed lots of rust at the front and
back of the arch. I'd hoped to just repair the front of the arch
but even this section is rotten larger than the repair panel.
I'd hoped to avoid replacing this whole panel as it means i'm
going to have to re-do the deseaming on the rear quarter panel.
Hopefully the inner wheelarch is solid enough.
9-Sept-2004
I've had a bit of a site reorganisation. I figured that one
page for the restoration for the GT was not going to be enough
so i've broken it down a bit (the website not the car!). I'll
also use this as a bit of a restoration diary.
Up to this point i've mainly been stripping down the car and
begun the repairs to the right front floor section.
Its been a bit interesting because there are two floor sections
- the original floor and a repair panel over the top. It also
looks like i'll need a new inner sill on the front, thats fine
though as the floor repair panel has this section in it.
When i've completed this section I'll go on and cut off the
right outer sill and repair the rear arch at the same time. Amazingly
after nearly 25 years the sills are
original! They are now completely rotten but at least nobody
has fitted the dreaded oversills and caused more damage.