Project THJ (Magenta Sprint)

[straylight]

Mart and Mary, you are rockin' workhorses. It is unbelievable how much you do so quickly and to such a good standard. Like Mike, I'm stuck faffing around and you are onto #3. Really good to watch and the bin liner trick is very clever.

Great work.

stu

[Mad Mart]

We've been plodding along steadily over the Christmas period.

DavePoth picked up a few doors from Alun the other day & we met up with him yesterday in Bristol to relieve him of them. Doors now stripped of all fittings & glass. Should get the rest of the paint off tomorrow.




Inner front panel now fully stripped.




We're hoping to get all the stripping done by Sunday so that we can then get it to the spray shop asap.

[MalcGE]

Cracking job Mart, much progress, keep the piccys coming.

Guess you muts have had a busy Christmas, there were a few of us expecting to see it finished by now

[Mad Mart]

If only!

We finished the doors off this morning & I finished the outside of the front panel. I'm now concentrating on cleaning up the bonnet & boot which Mary stripped. The shell is therefore ready to go as far as we're concerned.

[JPB]

....The shell is therefore ready to go as far as we're concerned.

That's a phenomenal work rate, even allowing for the fact that this one started with a shell that didn't fall apart once stripped of its paint.
I'll pop back to this thread in a Week's time to see the finished car then?

[Mad Mart]

Finished the bonnet & boot lid. Great, now to get on with the nuts & bolts.

I've also drilled the necessary holes in the new O/S headlight retaining panel I got from Fitchetts, 10 in all.

Loosened the subframe mounting bolts (with my new 2 foot breaker bar), well 3 of them, the other one sheared off...OUCH!.

Strengthened the caster frame that will bolt into the subframe holes once I've removed it.

So hopefully I'm looking to get the body shifted to the spray shop by next Saturday.

[Mad Mart]

At last it was time to drop the subframe out ready for THJ to go to the spray shop...













...and then it was time to say farewell to THJ until the end of March. Well we will be popping in from time to time to see how it's doing.




Now the fun begins. I started by stripping the subframe down...




...and then stripped the front hub assemblies.






Tomorrow I will start cleaning the components & painting them.

[tinweevil]

At last it was time to drop the subframe out ready for THJ to go to the spray shop...

That's Mart's entry to the 2010 'Most inappropriate use of a word, phrase or saying' competition sorted and I have to say, he's set the bar rather high.

[Stan Part]

Bye bye THJ - missing you already

[VYO 372M]

Fantastic photo's, looking forward to seeing it painted.

Steve

[straylight]

impressive as always mart, great job. that castor gadget looks handy. Good idea.

stu

[sprint95m]

At last it was time to drop the subframe out ready for THJ to go to the spray shop...

That's Mart's entry to the 2010 'Most inappropriate use of a word, phrase or saying' competition sorted and I have to say, he's set the bar rather high.

[Mad Mart]

At last it was time to drop the subframe out ready for THJ to go to the spray shop...

That's Mart's entry to the 2010 'Most inappropriate use of a word, phrase or saying' competition sorted and I have to say, he's set the bar rather high.

Well, you know what I mean. I know it's only been a couple of weeks but it's stopped me from getting on with the rest of it 'cause I haven't got the room with the shell in the way.

...that castor gadget looks handy. Good idea.

I saw an Escort on something similar when I was getting BFR resprayed & thought that would save a lot of time if I was able to carry on stripping the subframe whilst the shell was being sprayed.


My parts tree...

[Reg]

Great stuff Mart.. Lovin' the parts tree..excellent!

[Stan Part]

Every home should have one.

Oh, hang on.....

THEY HAVE!!