1972 Scamp in New Zealand
Well it’s been a while since I updated this. Life etc etc,
anyway, the inside of the trunk has concerned me as the car has previously been involved in a rear end collision. I pulled the bumper and it looked alright, you can see where the RR has taken a hit and been repaired. However inside the trunk has had copious amounts of seal sealer used inside it. I stripped it off on the RR only to find that instead of welding the rear panel brace back to the floor it had just had seal sealer smeared all over it.
Coupled with this the RR rear spring mount was out of shape and the LR was rusty, I made a cardboard template, and dropped it to a local shop that laser cuts and folds sheet metal.
The car is booked in on the 20th June to go to a buddy’s metal/restoration shop to have the rear end, spring mounts and a couple of small rust spots repaired,
I have also got my fuel tank all cleaned up, but I’m slowly running out out things to sort.
tank has come out a bit patchy (which looks worse because of the underbody Shultz) and I’m not sold on the black.
may hit it with some silver and do the straps black
I still need to paint my engine, I have all new frost plugs now.
So once it’s painted then I can start assembling ancillaries, and come up with a plan to run the Gilmour drive belt and P/S
Well it’s been a while since I updated this. Life etc etc,
anyway, the inside of the trunk has concerned me as the car has previously been involved in a rear end collision. I pulled the bumper and it looked alright, you can see where the RR has taken a hit and been repaired. However inside the trunk has had copious amounts of seal sealer used inside it. I stripped it off on the RR only to find that instead of welding the rear panel brace back to the floor it had just had seal sealer smeared all over it.
Coupled with this the RR rear spring mount was out of shape and the LR was rusty, I made a cardboard template, and dropped it to a local shop that laser cuts and folds sheet metal.
The car is booked in on the 20th June to go to a buddy’s metal/restoration shop to have the rear end, spring mounts and a couple of small rust spots repaired,
I have also got my fuel tank all cleaned up, but I’m slowly running out out things to sort.
tank has come out a bit patchy (which looks worse because of the underbody Shultz) and I’m not sold on the black.
may hit it with some silver and do the straps black
I still need to paint my engine, I have all new frost plugs now.
So once it’s painted then I can start assembling ancillaries, and come up with a plan to run the Gilmour drive belt and P/S
