Rusty Justy

[Paul Baldwin]

Wow that's a lot of rust

Hope he didn't pay to much for it.

Looks like some solid welding to me!

Solid, just not pretty!

Every winter i trawl ebay etc for one of these...getting rare now. I would love one!

Why would you look for one in the winter? Surely buying one in the summer would make far more sense?

Normally with any job I'd attempt to do the hardest bit first but due to a severe lack of space and having an attack of can't be arsed, I had a go with the grinder on the drivers side rear wing.





The return edge on the inner arch was screwed so replaced that completely with a strip. I had a metre square of 0.9mm zintec to play with at this point, it's just a little bit easier to fashion than the 2mm :-) There's a sort of end cap on the sill on these things. That too had to be replaced. The previous owner had removed this but had thankfully stowed what little remained of it in the glovebox so I had something to copy, sort of.

After cutting the new panel down a bit and drilling it for spot welding it was time to get it back to looking something like.



It did warp the area above the new panel a little bit which pissed me off. That's even after trying to balance them out all over it so the heat wasn't too concentrated in one spot. You wouldn't believe how many spots were needed!




Then it was over to the worst side. At least I could only see the floor at one place in the car now tho