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a halloween nightmare.......
Posted: 13 Oct 2008 11:16
by gaz
just been playing with photobucket and as halloween isn't far away here is my nightmare from the past...........
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn20 ... 272385.pbw
It rides again
Posted: 13 Oct 2008 11:50
by EntonoX
ouch, that seems a lot of nasty rust in there. Glad to see you get rid of it all!
Nice color! i presume you did some rust proofing underneath?
TR7, ACG 2700L
Posted: 13 Oct 2008 13:37
by gaz
yeh a lot of rust proofer went on that car.......and black hammerite to
It rides again
Posted: 13 Oct 2008 22:06
by Henk
The beginning is real horror.
Henk
1980 TR7 US Convertible
1978 Mini Clubman Estate
Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:43
by cliff
Gaz, Every time I see a ride that you folks on the other side of the pond have rescued from the tinworm and what you have to endure to be able to drive your TRs and other classics you continue to earn my admiration and respect. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!
Living in the California desert certainly has its benefits. What is a tinworm???????? HA! Very nice work.
Cliff
Posted: 14 Oct 2008 21:34
by Debpazvin
Fantastic work!
1980 Premium TR7-1 of 400 made.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 00:12
by fiveliters
Hey Gaz,I am so glad you posted a link to those pics...the one where the wing/fender is completely off on the side,I have to ask-how did you do it? It seems that,along with the small,rectangular piece beneath the wing,that to reattach it would require some odd welding,for sure! My 1975 has a bit of a crumpled wing on that same side,and I have the replacement one,but I wasn't sure if there is a trick or tip to reattaching it (I am having someone else do the work). I removed the replacement one with an angle grinder from a junked car myself,so apart from being careful with the part I needed,I pretty much tore into the rest of the car removing it. Any advice you can give would be great,thanks!
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 17:33
by windy one
Thats scary rust. Very nice work on the bodywork!!
I have yet to really get in there and look over my latest purchase, a 1979 TR7. But Im thinkin its going to have the same issues yours did. I dont know if I want to handle that much body repair, so I might opt to find a 1980 and use 1979 for parts. We shall see.
Nice job tho. [:)]
Johnny
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 08:36
by gaz
there were a couple of options if my bulkhead had been rotten then it would have been a lot more expensive ie chopping out about the height of the heater matrix pipes and and replacing it from a donor car windscreen and all scary but doable as suggested and i wouldn't have let anyone local do a job like that by S&S but luckly for me it wasn't any worse than you can see on the pics so it was a case of cutting out the bad and replacing with new and as i can gather a lot of templates were to be made
the guy who did loves working on older cars and happens to have mine at his garage at the moment along with a mk1 escort with a Zetech engine and twin 45s very nice
i could have gone so much further with it but were do you stop its now strong solid and the rots gone it'll never be concourse but it'll always be a 7........
any way so i cant help you too much but heres a link to a couple of threads ....as it were work in progress
http://www.forum.triumphtr7.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5924
It rides again.....
