Here is my Justy.
I bought this last year - it had two owners, the first being from new to 2013.
I bought it with running issues (carburettor). It had been on my parent's driveway for about two months and having tried to sell it and getting absolutely bawlsed for about three months continuously from numerous people (on here) who wanted it, then didn't want it, I told my mum to get the scrap yard to take it and keep the money.
My brother drove it round the corner, where it lay un-noticed for about a month until I saw it.
I moved it into my garage and messed around with the carburettor, got it running properly and started to go over it. It's a really tidy car that has come from a good home.
I knew it had a couple of small holes in the sills, so began to take it to bits in an attempt to do a proper repair job on all the bits it needs.
Sills:
Bit of rust around the screw hole:
Arches are obviously going to hide something with that telltale white cracking:
I think this has possibly had a previous repair job:
Underneath:
Knotwheel on an angle grinder:
Up to the arches - here we go!
I bought some new arch panels from Germany:
Began cutting everything out:
Welded new metal straight over the old - he never even cut the rust out. He did a good job with the spraying though:
This is where the rear seat belt bolts to. The car had been completely waxoyled underneath, but the previous owner had used some really thick bitumous underseal in the arches. This had started to flake and peel and hold moisture. It was about 1/2 inch thick over here, and had completely rotted through. Easy fix though and not as worrying as it looks:
Don't use cheap underseal not up for the job:
The other side:
More mountains of filler covering poor repair jobs, covered with a really good spray job:
There's an inch of filler here:
Lovely:
Here's the seat belt mounting point on the other side:
And the all the rust exposed:
I've been over the whole car and have only found a small hole on the driver's side front inner wing. It's otherwise in super condition and lovely to drive!
I bought this last year - it had two owners, the first being from new to 2013.
I bought it with running issues (carburettor). It had been on my parent's driveway for about two months and having tried to sell it and getting absolutely bawlsed for about three months continuously from numerous people (on here) who wanted it, then didn't want it, I told my mum to get the scrap yard to take it and keep the money.
My brother drove it round the corner, where it lay un-noticed for about a month until I saw it.
I moved it into my garage and messed around with the carburettor, got it running properly and started to go over it. It's a really tidy car that has come from a good home.
I knew it had a couple of small holes in the sills, so began to take it to bits in an attempt to do a proper repair job on all the bits it needs.
Sills:
Bit of rust around the screw hole:
Arches are obviously going to hide something with that telltale white cracking:
I think this has possibly had a previous repair job:
Underneath:
Knotwheel on an angle grinder:
Up to the arches - here we go!
I bought some new arch panels from Germany:
Began cutting everything out:
Welded new metal straight over the old - he never even cut the rust out. He did a good job with the spraying though:
This is where the rear seat belt bolts to. The car had been completely waxoyled underneath, but the previous owner had used some really thick bitumous underseal in the arches. This had started to flake and peel and hold moisture. It was about 1/2 inch thick over here, and had completely rotted through. Easy fix though and not as worrying as it looks:
Don't use cheap underseal not up for the job:
The other side:
More mountains of filler covering poor repair jobs, covered with a really good spray job:
There's an inch of filler here:
Lovely:
Here's the seat belt mounting point on the other side:
And the all the rust exposed:
I've been over the whole car and have only found a small hole on the driver's side front inner wing. It's otherwise in super condition and lovely to drive!