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This is a long thread, so I've written an overview here so you know what the story is. If you want to read the whole story start to finish then please feel free to go through the whole thread Overview:I got the car in 2000, ran around in it for a couple of years and then took it off the road for some restoration. The car was pretty rotten underneath and needed sills, floorpans, rear suspension, all the front sheet metalwork, rear corners and a lot more. This is when I moved to my current place, partway through the work: It was a lot of welding which I completed in about 2006 with a fibreglass flipfront: I sprayed it red shortly afterwards and put a full original matching interior in: I'd bought another car in the meantime and was using that as my daily commuter (the black Ford Pop with the hot sidevalve), so the Anglia sat in the garage for some time and didn't progress due to a lack of time and motivation. I decided to put it into Burnham Autos to do those last finishing jobs and get it on the road, which they did at the end of 2008. The engine I was using was tired and at the end of 2009 I did a full documented engine build and the debut was going to be Retro Rides Gathering. This was the engine I was to kill on the motorway and I seized it solid, basically because I was going too fast and I hadn't run it in. After this, it took me a year before I could face pulling the engine out again and I found it had eaten the bearings in the bottom end: The crank was damaged, but it could be reground and I decided to have new valve guides put in the head while the well known engine firm ground the crank. The crank came back looking great, but when I sat it in the engine it had over 1mm of end float. To this day I have no idea how they managed that, because grinders only take off hundredths of a millimetre at a time. They replaced the crank and honoured me with a replacement set of bearings, because the new crank was ground to a different size. In the meantime, the head was still with them. They claimed the valve guides were so worn they would need to get some special ones in and it would be a bit more expensive to do. No big deal, I knew it was pretty worn. However, I was not expecting them to take 6 months to do it and I certainly wasn't expecting them to then run a valve seating tool into it and make a complete mess of one chamber. They claimed this wasn't a ****-up but it looked like someone had loaded up a tool that was way too big and gone chomping into the head with it. To rectify the problem they put larger hardened valve seats in, larger valves and reground everything and didn't charge me extra for it. My ported head on top of a standard one: Unfortunately, I don't have much confidence in the work they did and all the parts have sat on my bench pretty much untouched since. I did put new cam bearings in the block and bought a new cam kit, leaving the honing to a local engineer who I trusted to do the job. I think the thing that annoyed me most about said engine firm is that I am quite an experienced machinist and I know I'd be able to do the job myself if I had access to a mill. Instead, it cost me £200 and I know the job hasn't been done properly. Putting all that behind me, I decided to get a standard engine as a stop-gap to put the car back on the road, which I brought home in my hotrod that had taken daily duty at that point: This needed a few things on the car putting back to standard and I put the engine back in the car. I made a mistake though, because the crank bearing was the wrong size and the engine had to come back out AGAIN. Enough was enough, I rolled it back into the garage and didn't touch it until a few weeks ago. I really cracked into it, connected up the exhaust to the 2" system, put the standard throttle linkage on, a bit of fiddling with points, plugs and leads, it fired up and it was ready to go. I got the rest of the car back together and MOTd it 24/04/2012. Future work: Well I'm not sure now. I love it with the smaller engine. It's pretty tired and breathing quite heavily but it's an absolute hoot to drive. It's insured as a 1200 and all the other mods declared, free tax and does about 35mpg, so cheap as chips to run. I need to flat and polish the paint because it's been dinged about quite a lot in the garage and the flipfront needs touching up where it has been on and off the car too much. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with it as it is
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Beginning of the original thread:When I first joined up here I was partway through my 105E Anglia build. Due to being a complete jippo and borrowing hosting off people I have lost all the original pictures and I can't find my old threads so as I'm about to get cracked into some new work on the car I thought I'd post up the whole story. It's in date order so from the beginning... 06/06/2005! Here's my Anglia, it's a 1967 car bought in 2000. It came with a race prepared 1700 with twin Webers, 60's style bucket seats and mini steering wheel with Union Jack centre. This was all fitted some time ago as it also had drum brakes all round and its original gearbox in good old-time fashion. I quickly swapped the brakes to discs (yes filled my pants a few times) changed the 'box to a close ratio jobbie, added some numbers to the doors, then drove it every day up to the end of 2002. Decided to tidy it up a bit and ended up doing the sills and floor, most of which rotted out in the short time it lived outside. Drove it about for another year, then last year started a complete makeover. Started with a new engine, this time a full race 1800 which is in there now and I've just made up a twin box exhaust which is tucked up underneath nicely. Last week started to repair the bodywork which has practically rotted away since I've owned the car and it has lived outside. Now I've got the garage I can actually do work without the rain ruining my efforts. It's gone a lot more rusty than I expected but I'm getting handy with the welder so soon it'll be ready for the paint shop. Here she is. I've got some nice rust-free doors to put on which will save me a lot of time and I'm going to swap the wings for fibreglass ones, save rusting away another good pair. The doors are blue and the wings will be white. The bootlid, well who knows what colour that will be... Wheels are white Lotus 13" 5.5J rims with 175/50 Dunlop tyres. I haven't decided if I like the profile of these but the 185/55 I really love and have used for years has become near impossible to get. The Dunlop is popular on the old Mini so it's an easy to get size. At the back I had some 7-leaf springs springs made up and got the shocks modified by Leda who did all that stuff back in the day. At the front it's got Escort struts with Leda inserts, adjustable spring platforms and 190lb springs. The strut tops have eccentric mounts to bring the angles back in. I have poly bushes to fit but have been putting it off, haven't got around to it yet. Here's the engine, looks pretty small in there, but boy should it go. Should be good for 150hp. Haven't had it rolling-roaded yet, so the jetting and timing isn't yet set. This one is an 85mm bore pre-crossflow with full race head, forged Accralite pistons, Kent 244 cam and twin 40 Webers. It's got electronic ignition (goodbye points) inside the modified distributor. The flywheel is a much lightened affair with a heavy duty clutch. Gearbox is a 2000E. Exhaust is a 105-speed 4-into-1 manifold (Neil, it better be good at that price lol ) feeding a twin box system which runs down the centre of the car. Peep mirror is actually quite useful. And here's my Corbeau buckets. I'm swapping these out for original matching vinyl seats as they're a bit wide for the car, plus I want to add to the sleeper style. I might even put on an original steering wheel. The rest of the interior is going to be original style. I have reflective space mat to lay on the floor to keep the noise and heat down which will be topped with either black or dark red carpet. Paint-wise I'm going to keep it as it is in red with the 69's on the doors. I put them on there to hide some rusty bubbles (hey you can't see them) but it gives the car so much character I think they will go back on. I'd quite like to get them painted on then laquered over. That's a long time off though, got to paint it first. 25/08/2005 It was bad news from the start. I knew the car was pretty rotten underneath because I'd done the sills and floor a few years before and it had already been a mountain of work. What was under the wings was a shock: Oh dear: Round the other side, just as bad but repaired some time in the past: So it wasn't looking too good. I wasn't put off though
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06/10/2005 Here are a couple of piccies of the welding I've been doing. Have been getting quite good at making snotty old metal look nice and new and shiny again! Not much work on at the mo so I thought I'd get some pictures of what I've been up to in the garage. Last installment I'd chopped the wings off and was trying to get some fibreglass ones to fit. Which they didn't. The front panel had been patched up lots of times so I decided to lop that off as well and go for a flip front. Here's what she's looking like from a dog's point of view: As you can see I've kept the inner wings and I'm going to run a bead along the edge so that it's not sharp. The stuff on the roof is the interior, I'm ditching the Corbeau buckets as I've got an original set of matching seats. The Corbeaus are great, but they're a bit restrictive for everyday driving. Here's the nearly finished pillar. It's rotted through on both sides so I've been making up panels to replace. All this stuff is available new but as usual I've got loads of time but no money, so I'll make it myself... ...this is what the repair bits look like before they go on. Amazing what you can make in a Black and Decker Workmate. Also unearthed some more rust. It's really annoying because these two bits in the corners are from where I have had the car standing outdoors for about two years: It's nothing too serious but it's just more welding to do which I might not have had to do if it was covered in that time. Heh, also dug out this beauty. Luckily it has only done this on one side, but again it's not serious rot... There might be another supercharger on the horizon \0/ A guy I did some work for has a complete Shorrock supercharger with all the manifolds ready to fit as original. The catch? He wants £500 for it. Might have to save up! ^^^This is the passenger side A pillar nearly finished, it was nearly completely rusted away on the last update and just needs grinding down and painting now. I'm going to primer them and then spray with shutz. It will completely cover the welds so I won't need to worry about making them look immaculate, but more importantly it will stop all those stone chips etc. ^^^This is the driver's side almost done. It looks much better once ground down. The eBay dudey came and picked up my old Corbeau Forzas which gives me a bit more space to work inside the car and some cash to spend on it. The plan is to go a deep satin red and the 69's back on the doors to begin with, then later on when I've got more time/money to do a decent gloss job on the paint. For the next few months it will be multicolour though! Also uncovered a new patch of rot which I had missed which is a bit annoying because I thought I was nearly there on the front. This one means taking off the steering links on that side so it's going to take a bit more work Car is looking something like this at the moment ready for the flipfront:
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Last Edit: Aug 10, 2012 10:08:45 GMT by Deleted
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61stu
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love it
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23/10/2005
Update on the deathtrap: Got the front pillars 99% welded up now which will be finished tomorrow and I'll take some pics. Just need to grind smooth and spray on some primer. Picking up my flipfront on Monday night so hopefully I'll get to trial fit it and maybe she'll look like a car again.
Should look great with the red roof, dark blue front, blue door, green door and no boot!
Also decided those disposable Co2 welding bottles make great pulsejet bodies so there is a new valveless pulsejet in the pipeline too.
Have been getting quite good at making snotty old metal look nice and new and shiny again!
With a bit more cash I probably would have bought pattern parts and spot welded them on, but realistically the car had been restored at some point in the past and the repairs were a bit tatty in places, so I could have chucked a load of money at it but it wouldn't have looked concours. That's not the plan, hence I'm going for the flipfront which is the difference between £1000 for decent front metalwork or £30 for a glass flip which won't rust immediately.
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Last Edit: Jan 29, 2008 14:41:43 GMT by Deleted
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09/11/2005 I've been mucking about trying to get the flip fitted. The front was used for hillclimbing and it looks like it has hit a few hay bales in its life, but it's in great nick for £30 and just needs a little tidying for paint. The guy who had it was obviously running a stretched wheelbase as it mounts about 4" too far forward using his mountings! Slight modification later and all is good. These pics are with it wedged in place but I've started to mock up some new hinges for the front, more pics to follow soon. The compressor is that ancient looking contraption on the left. 1/3 horsepower and it works really well! Hey, it almost looks like a car again! It's been a great boost to put it on and it feels like the car might actually get finished one day. There's still loads to do but it feels like it's nearly done now! I need some lights! I think what I'm going to try and do is make it obvious that it's a flipfront instead of trying to hide it. It's going to be all ripply when I paint it, as fibreglass is, so I'll actually use that as a feature rather than wasting my time trying to flatten it.
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23/11/2005
Well it's nearly time to put the engine back in the Anglia. My welding mission at the front is nearly over, just a few more bits to do and a spray over and that bit is ready. Bit of background, the compression on the engine I built up is too low and it needs machining to get it back up which I can't afford at the moment. What I planned to do was put in a similar engine to tide me over until I can afford the work...
So I've picked up a non-running 1200cc version of my one off eBay! It needs a rebuild, but basically means I can slip in my race cam, drop on my race head, slide on the 40's and off I go! I reckon I can wring 100hp out of it with a bit of nurturing!
Only one issue with the 1200 which is it only has 3 bearings on the crank while the 1600 has 5. This means it can be a bit rubbery but the pistons also weigh a hell of a lot less than the 1600. At the end of the day it is a road engine, not a race engine which means although it is in the same state of tune it won't be at high revs all the time or for very long.
I think it will be fine for 8000rpm. The 1700 I ran before took all the abuse I could throw at it and had no rev limiter. Actually my only worry is that my race head might have been opened up for the 85mm bore while the 1200 is on the standard 79mm bore.
Edit: I didn't mention how much I paid for the engine - £35
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01/12/2005 Good job the girlfriend is at work, I just cleaned up the interior for the Anglia that arrived this morning in an odd shaped parcel. Scrubbed it down in the bath, ultimate death penalty if caught doing that, almost as bad as finding car parts in the bedroom. Well it looked like it had been stored in a penicillin farm by the amount of mould that was all over it, but Bold 2-in-1 has cleaned it all off and it looks near immaculate now. It still smells like an old Ford interior, nothing like the lavender that the washing liquid smells of! Meh, I can live with that Not bad for a tenner. It's all there, the guy even chucked in the arm rests and the little vinyl covers that go over the rear wheel arches. Some pics: The interior: The flipfront, it is as rough as it looks in the photo, not sure if I ought to look for another one: The recess I put in the firewall: This keeps it well clear of the carbs which are right close to it. When the engine kicks over too far it rattles the brake and clutch pipes so I decided to recess it 30mm to be on the safe side. It also means I can drop a 2 litre Zetec straight in there if I decide to. Or a normally aspirated Cosworth if one turns up mwahahahaha... Kind of a bit better view from this angle, I'm really pleased with the way it has come out. I was going to put a curve in that bottom bit, but decided cutting the firewall to match would be a nightmare so I went for a 30 degree bend instead. This was an absolute MARE of a job so I don't recommend anyone does this unless they really have to! Here's the engine I picked up for £35: Cute little thing ennit? I think it's going to look pretty cool with twin 40's, alloy rocker cover and 4-into-1 race exhaust.
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14/12/2005 - 07/01/2006 Been busy in the garage with my new toys aka compressor and spraygun. I had the engine bay filled and sanded ready to spray just before Christmas but I was crapping myself about using the gun for the first time so it sat in there for a few weeks. Here's a few pics of the bay pre paint: I had to use LOADS of filler to bury these two repairs lol: I didn't manage to get any pics in primer due to excitement and anticipation but it looked pretty much the same, just matte and yellow and covered in newspaper! Here it is in paint: It's not rubbed, flatted or polished yet, just straight out the gun. There are a few runs, but nothing major: In fact you can see one of the runs in the top left of this piccie, but no problemo because that's behind the heater and you can't see it heheheh: Anyway I had to run in because it suddenly got damn cold. Where I was washing the roof down so I could sand for paint the water suddenly turned into a sheet of ice and I couldn't get it off! Got a picture of it though, Jonny69 style:
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Last Edit: Aug 10, 2012 10:13:57 GMT by Deleted
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11/02/2006 I'll title this one in the words of Crocodile Dundee when some rough looking guy pulled out a piece of rusty metal on him... "Call that rust? THIS is rust..." Anyway enough of this idle chitchat, I've got it masked up at the moment so I can spray the roof. I rubbed it down a few weeks back but got busy workwise so it sat for a few weeks. Managed to lay down some primer over the last few days and it went better than expected. The only place I buggered it up was hung over and unfed this morning along the rain gutters where I've got some runs. It's exceptionally difficult to get the paint to go in there!!! The idea behind doing the roof before the rest of the car is I can do all my fillering and sanding with the doors on and the dust won't end up in the car. While I'm doing that I can get it MOT'd and be driving it and just pop the doors off when it's ready to paint when the weather is good. I also started looking at the damage round the back and SURPRISE!!! the rot had really set in. Looks like the car had been rear ended at some point in the past and rather than repair the metal the back of the car has been sculpted from a solid chunk of filler. I gashed out this chunk which is about 3/4" thick: I scored a couple of rear panels off eBay. I think I paid a bit over the odds for them but I really needed the things as you'll see in a bit. I was offered some rear 1/4 panels cut off a car but I wanted something virginal and unfettered so these were ideal. This was the horror show hiding underneath: And a bit closer on the really crusty bit... So you can see there wasn't much of the old panel left: I'm now the proud owner of a really big pile of filler dust. Basically what I've had to do at the back here is use the new panel as a guide to build up what was supposed to be behind it, chopped out all the old grot and started again with fresh metal: Et voila! Soon she'll have an ass just as Henry intended it to be, not how some bodger body repair place thought thought they could get away with. Anyway it's a bit more of a setback, but nothing I can't handle (manly roar) and nothing I've learned not to expect. It's so close to being a driver IT HURTS!!!
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Last Edit: Aug 10, 2012 10:15:36 GMT by Deleted
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30/03/2006 I've been threatening to do this for months but I actually put the engine in today. Months and months ago a top mate lent me his comedy oversize engine crane some and has been kind enough to let me have it all this time. He has only just managed to break one of his engines so that is my prompt to pull my thumb out my bottom and get it back together. (And that man turns out to be our very own Seth on here ) So this is basically what I was faced with - my now-multicolour Anglia rolled half out the garage. That's his crane literally DWARFING my car some way back. I reckon it could pull an engine out a cross-Channel ferry if he needed it to. I dropped the engine into the car in one go with the gearbox attached, just had to drop the steering linkages off temporarily on the passenger side to give me some more clearance. I really recommend doing that, for the five minutes it took it made the job a lot easier: I had to jack the front of the car up off the ground and take the front wheels off to clear the MONSTROUS legs on this thing, but here's the engine in and half assembled. One Weber short: Heheheh, got clearance? I took an aerial shot to show how my recess comes into play. Now the engine is in the right place (I had it about an inch further forward before)the back carb would be mashed into the bulkhead so with the extra inch and a half it is clear and I can get my fat hand behind it to do the bolts up: Poly bushes all round now, but that's another story, quite a few less knuckles, fingerprints, and a pile of cash in my swear tin. But the job is done now, don't have to worry about it. Gee I'm bushed... I also brush painted around the screen so I can pop it in which means I can wait before I spray it. I'll probably bum around in multicolours for a bit and spray it when the weather gets a bit better. And that pretty much covers it. If I get time I'm going to try and put the rest back together next week, get her fired up and let the neighbours know what they've been missing all this time.
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Last Edit: Aug 10, 2012 10:16:53 GMT by Deleted
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09/05/2006 A quick update on the Anglia, I've been performing some surgery on the back of the car. This has been a pig of a job and I'm properly intoxicated off with the thing, covered in little burns and I'm sitting here slathered in Savlon to ease the pain. So I started on the rear passenger side which was the worse of the two, basically the metal was like tin foil and just came away with the wire wheel on the grinder. The filler was as thick as my thumb and took about an hour to get it all off. Underneath it was clear the car was rear ended quite a long time ago and repaired well but heavily filled and it's just rotted through the metal over the years. So this is what I cut out... ...leaving me with this big hole to fill! However all is not bad because I have some shiny stuff to weld to for once. There was literally nothing to work with so I had to make it up as I went along, but I made up a couple of little sections for the ends and then was going to follow the curve round by the shape of the bodywork above. So these are the end bits: As you can see one has a curve and the other has a fold, so the bit in the middle has to blend from one to another with a slight curve along its length. Gah! I wasn't too concerned how pretty this looks because it is all covered by a thin panel on top, a pathetic attempt from Ford which really should have been the back of the car but instead is a thin pre-rusted piece of junk that just rots the car from the back forward and it's rivetted on from what I can work out. However, because I have it off the car I can paint and wax the back which will stop that happening and it also has the added bonus of hiding my duff handywork. I should have really taken more photos as I went but I was getting in a right grump under the car, covered in curse word, covered in little burns and unable to see what I was doing. So this is the result of a whole day's work: It actually doesn't look that bad now I look back on it and once it's filled and painted it will be hidden forever. The back panel doesn't fit particularly well as I could have pulled the bumper mount out a bit further but I'll deal with that with a hammer if I have to...
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Last Edit: Aug 10, 2012 10:18:26 GMT by Deleted
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10/07/2006 It's been a long time since I did a progress update on the ole Anglia but I've been busy so here it all is in one big unmanageable lump. Bear with me there are lots of tatty looking pictures, plenty of filler, welding, fibreglass, rubbing, swearing and blood. Lets start at the front and work round shall we, this is how she's looking at the moment: I've just spent the weekend fitting the flipfront, a job I've been putting off for ages, but it fits a treat and hinges really nicely now. Although it's tatty I reckon I'll be able to patch it in and repair the cracks, tears, splits etc. More about that in a bit and on with the pics. Here's the back panel that I have lovingly repaired. It was completely perforated as I showed in some previous pics but I've welded some new metal in and filled/sanded ready for paint: The bootlid is also sanded and ready for paint. This was matt black when I got it and the colour changes have been quite comedy, turquoise under the black, pink, yellow and finally light blue: Rear corners are both fully welded in now. I've lowered the raised weld with the help of my new bodywork hammer. It's in anti-rust primer at the mo ready for some plop and plenty of sanding. Not that anti-rust primer is in any way going to help an Anglia, don't now why I bothered: I didn't take any pics as I went along but I have welded up all the trim holes on the doors, ground smooth, filled, block sanded and both the doors are also ready for paint. The door on this side was blown over with treacle or Pritt Stick or something and it was a sod to sand off. I resorted to 40-grit and some serious elbow grease. Underneath there were a few perforations, but welded in some patches and block sanded them in. Nice and flat: So onto the flipfront. The piéce de la resistance, the showcase, what you've all been waiting for, the, oh whatever. It's fitted up. Closed: And open: Close up to the hinge you can see how it's done. I made up a hefty bit of L section that bolts up to the bumper iron mountings on the sides of the chassis, then some box section drops down at 90 degrees (to clear the anti roll bar mounting) with tube welded into the end. A thick strap bolts through the flipfront on the end of which is more tube and some thick bar hinges the two. What I've done is redesigned what was on there so that it's a bit stronger and a bit more rigid on the car end. I don't want it going off for a quick fly while I'm driving so it's held down real strong. I could have welded it on and it would have looked a bit prettier but this way it all bolts on and off and the pins pull out. At the top I'll be putting on some bonnet straps to pull the front up into place and I might glass in some sash cord to make it a bit more rigid as it is all wobbly and floppy at the moment. The general state of the flipfront is "extreme disrepair", it's a mess, but at £350 for a new one I think I'm going to be el cheapo and repair mine. This is the sort of thing: Nothing a bit of spit and tissue paper can't fix mixed in with plenty of sanding and a nice cancerous sounding cough. Anyway, last up is two more pictures, I can't think of any caption to go with these. Don't even know why I took them. Maybe I'm excited.
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Last Edit: Aug 10, 2012 10:20:36 GMT by Deleted
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13/09/2006 Some of you may have seen my thread called WAG. Some of you may have had a little chuckle at my comedy style of writing, many of you not. Most of you will be wondering what I've been sculpting out of all that filler. Well I decided the Anglia was too rusty so I junked it and started again with the contents of that tin. A little filler goes a long way if you're careful with it and I've managed to make a whole 105E bodyshell out of it. So here's how she's looking right now: Body is basically completely rubbed down bar a few bits and is smooth as a baby's bottom. Those rear quarters were a pig to get right and used a lot of filler. The fronts and backs of the arches were even harder to get the right shape so I resorted to my old modelmaking techniques with a knife, fine chisel and sandpaper. Well it worked! It's a bit difficult to see in the next one but I decided I would smooth off the pillars that I rebuilt. The back edge is on view and while I was going to spray them down with schutz I thought I'd finish it off properly in red to match as it's going to be seen behind the lip of the flipfront. The black bit is going to be stone-chipped and red as well so the whole front should look quite tidy. The schutz will be left for under the arches. This is under the flipfront, I glassed in the original bonnet catch. It works too, miracle Here is where I've extended the rear edge because it had been cut back too far: And finally a moody shot of the car skulking around near the garage door
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Last Edit: Aug 10, 2012 10:21:44 GMT by Deleted
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orangecords
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dude thats a sweet angular
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I then wanted to start cleaning the interior as it stinks of wood (the material not the smell of a boner) best quote ever!
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And that was the last time I touched it. I got a new job and I bought the Pop as a quick fixup (hohoho!) to use as a daily driver and things kind of snowballed and the Anglia became more of a parts dump than a project. The Pop is done and reliable and now it's time to get cracked back into the old Anglia. I am collecting new parts to keep it reliable so I don't have to replace anything as I go, most of which is stashed under my desk at work. I'll be getting some paint, a new mask, masking tape and paper and with a bit of luck well be rolling again fairly soon. There are one or two jobs I'd like to redo but I don't want to get too caught in that trap. I think before I start masking up for paint I ought to get that engine running. I'm going back to points and condensor initially. I can't cope with electrics and I know where I stand with mechanical breakers, so I'll get it going on points and swap over to the Aldon leccy ignition later on
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Sweet mate, loving it ALOT.
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Seth
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The Pop is done and reliable and now it's time to get cracked back into the old Anglia. Hooray! Who's gonna be first
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Nice anglebox
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Hi Jonny, I've come over to the dark side, lol. Just read this thread and laughed at your writing style, enjoyed it so much I did not go in the garage and spray the bits that I should have done!! Look forward to more progress.
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