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Jun 23, 2016 15:38:29 GMT
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MkX - Thanks for the heads up on the parts, I'm mostly alright for parts for the moment - It's time rather than parts that the car needs! On the parts front I did recently manage to get my hands on another correct front wing which is a major step forward: It's not an absolute match to the other wing which I have but is close enough that one or the other can be lightly modified to suit. As with just about everything else on the car it doesn't really line up properly, but it's all getting there slowly! No prob. You're doing a great job, nice to see!
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Jun 27, 2016 19:18:18 GMT
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That fintail body looks cool. But the story on your own, pieced together over years and continents is cool also. Is it a typical 3 pedal setup? Yes the pedals are completely conventional, although the gears are reversed - first bottom right, second top left, third bottom left and reverse top right. Sounds a bit complicated but you get used to the reversed gears very quickly. The later cars have a completely conventional gear box with an extra gear and even a bit of synchromesh (when new at least)
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dikkehemaworst
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Jun 27, 2016 22:11:06 GMT
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Whats the other vintage car in the picture? Looks really interesting with the separate seating... could not hurt to show us some pictures... :-)
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Frankenhealey
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Whats the other vintage car in the picture? Looks really interesting with the separate seating... could not hurt to show us some pictures... :-) Tell, tell, tell.......
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Tales of the Volcano Lair hereFrankenBug - Vulcan Power hereThe Frankenhealey here
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Jun 28, 2016 20:24:22 GMT
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Well you can just about see the rear of a Morgan Aero chassis, and most of a very early Oldsmobile in the previous picture although neither of them belong to me, I don't have any better pictures of them to hand I'm afraid!
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Jun 29, 2016 21:57:05 GMT
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A quick look at the front wings I have: As you can see one has a slight lip at the edge and the other is flat. I'll have to decide whether to smooth out the lip on one with filler (probably the easier option) or have the lip added to the other.
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Jul 24, 2016 21:26:45 GMT
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Bit of an update on this - The body is off again for what will hopefully be the final time while I try to adjust a few final clearances, mostly where the pedals and handbrake are slightly rubbing in various places. I've turned my attention slightly to how I'm going get the thing painted. My worry all along has been that I am building the car up from spares which are generally past their best and the body is so dented and battered that it would take an enormous amount of work to ever get it remotely straight, and as a result a new paint job would massively show up all the imperfections and look fairly awful. One possible solution I've come up with is to try and paint the car in such a way that it looks as if it is not freshly painted and try to weather it slightly. So basically I decided to experiment with one of the doors: I filled the holes where someone had crudely attempted to attach an external hinge and gave the door a good rub down: At this point I gave the door a few layers of etch primer, followed by a few layers of Green Hammerite applied with a roller(!). Initially I tried to thin the Hammerite down with thinners, but it seemed to react badly and caused the paint to go extremely bubbly. The door basically looked atrocious, but in the name of experimentation I rubbed it down lightly and gave it a few layers of paint from a spare rattle can which seemed to improve things a bit, but still basically looked fairly rubbish. As a last ditch attempt I got out some Waxoyl, thinned it down slightly, and rubbed all over the door with it, making sure it soaked into all of the imperfections. A minute or so later I rubbed off the excess with a clean rag. Anyway, the results: Hopefully the pictures show how the Waxoyl soaks into the recesses. I'm still not quite sure what to make of the attempt, but from my point of view it has fairly ended up how I was hoping it too. There is such a relatively small area to paint that I am tempted to go ahead and apply the same treatment to the entire body and see how it ends up looking. It would certainly be a cost effective way of getting some colour into the car without making it look too freshly restored.
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logicaluk
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Jul 24, 2016 22:00:29 GMT
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I like the effect, go for it. Dan
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Jul 25, 2016 10:49:23 GMT
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ive thinned hammerite "smooth" with tetrosyl standard thinners loads of times without problem. not tried it on hammered effect hammerite though
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Last Edit: Jul 25, 2016 10:53:09 GMT by darrenh
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Jul 25, 2016 19:40:23 GMT
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Some people wonder if their ride is too new for RR - you wont have that issue. This is the deep retro! Well done for the work so far it looks like a labour of love.
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Jul 25, 2016 21:09:45 GMT
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I did try one door with the 'hammered' Hammerite on the basis that the hammered effect might make the paint look older, but it didn't look right at all and was far too shiny. Here's a picture of that door prior to the Waxoyl treatment: Even after applying the Waxoyl it still looked fairly dreadful and didn't work in the same way as the other door. I'll sand this door back slightly when I next get a chance and try spraying and applying Waxoyl to see if I can replicate the effect from the other door. Darrenh - I'm not quite sure what went wrong with the thinners, the use of a roller to apply the paint might not have helped the bubble issue, but it was definitely bubbling before the roller went near it!
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Jul 25, 2016 21:17:50 GMT
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I think you will struggle to get a old looking patina with hammer finish paint, probably better to use something like teamac metal paint and then Dab a sponge in areas to get the distressed look.
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dikkehemaworst
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Jul 26, 2016 16:44:25 GMT
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I've used enamel paint om my austin ten. worked a treat ! If it sucks , just do it again untill the finish is right.
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Aug 22, 2016 21:56:13 GMT
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Everytime I see an update on this thread I get excited! Great work mate, very cool to see a car of this vintage restored with the idea of it being used rather than stuck in a museum. Looking forward to further progress (and scanning the local paddocks for one of my own, haha)
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Aug 27, 2016 16:05:37 GMT
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Little bit more done today - I finished the fairly depressing job of taking the rear end back to bare metal. I ended up using paint stripper as the sander was clogging up almost instantly from the uncured paint, seemed to work well enough, but it took ages and was quite messy. And a quick blow over with some primer and things are looking a bit more presentable again: There's still plenty of sanding to do, and probably a couple more coats of primer, but hopefully I will have a green car before too long!
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Last Edit: Aug 27, 2016 17:14:51 GMT by rupertw
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melle
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Aug 27, 2016 16:54:42 GMT
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Maybe I'm just paranoid, but seeing you have some nice stuff around you may want to blur the address visible in some of the pics. You're close to me, hope to see this blasting about in the area in the near future!
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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Aug 27, 2016 17:11:12 GMT
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Thanks for pointing that out! Not my address fortunately, but I've removed the offending post so he doesn't get any unwanted visitors!
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logicaluk
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Disheartening as it is stripping the paint back off, progress is progress and your still moving forwards. I do hope theres some pics of the very intresting looking, aero screened beauty in the front of that pic. Dan
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Last Edit: Aug 28, 2016 7:27:01 GMT by logicaluk
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Aug 28, 2016 21:22:00 GMT
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Again, so very cool my friend! Although I agree nothing sucks more than stripping something you thought you had just damn finished...
Sorry to derail, but what is that sporty little number in the foreground?
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logicaluk
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Aug 28, 2016 22:32:59 GMT
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I think its a morgan
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