Micheal's Bent Bus

[Wags]

1 hour ago, gav240z said:

So are you going to find a donor rear half?

Haha great minds…I was thinking exactly that but just didn’t want to say it. 

[Agno]

after all that work to get the car straight that has to be seriously disheartening

[Wags]

This is why I would personally never buy a classic without the view of restoring it. At least he has C.A.R on the job. A lot of other shops would just end up putting makeup on a pig, whereas Locky does it to last.

Edited May 26 by Wags
Rephrase

[C.A.R.]

7 hours ago, gav240z said:

So are you going to find a donor rear half?

[Oliphips]

On 5/23/2022 at 2:14 PM, C.A.R. said:

Dodgy sods...




 

geez some people are rough

 

 

[C.A.R.]

The RH side seemed like a reasonable place to start, so we repaired the top of the sill first:



The top was cut out, and piece was folded up and welded into place:

[C.A.R.]

RH dogleg was next. The back of the sill was repaired, then a new dogleg was folded up, welded into place and linished smooth:





(I've since pulled the slightly sunken weld out & re-linished it.)

[gav240z]

Superb.

[hmd]

@C.A.R. when are you going to get your PhD in rust? We can call you Dr Rust?

[C.A.R.]

The RH rear lower quarter was a mess, and the inner panel was rusted though as well.
No choice but to replace both, so Graeme (my employee) tackled this while I repaired the panels...











 

Edited June 21 by C.A.R.

[C.A.R.]

Repeat on the LH side with some shrinking required for good measure:

[C.A.R.]

The area around fuel door was rusted through, so I fabricated a new section to replace it:





Yuck...:

[C.A.R.]

Onto the LH floor - I worked out the cost for new KFVintageJDM floor pans + freight + installation,
and the figures said it was going to be cheaper to fabricate & install patch repair panels:











I'm not taking credit for this - it's Graeme's handywork.

Edited June 29 by C.A.R.

[C.A.R.]

RH footwell:



Then the rails were removed:



Also the RS30 LH sill (which we'll be modifying), floor rails and bonnet hinge gussets arrived from @kfvintagejdm:

Edited Friday at 07:27 AM by C.A.R.