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once all was welded up it was time for filler!..








already its starting to look like a proper car again...





next move will be to to turn the car round in my little garage so i can tackle the other side but im more than happy with the drivers side now!





more to come very soon...

Superb work. Have a virtual pat on the back from me.

And from me too.

Keep up the excellent work and updates

..and again! Excellent progress and photos. She'll be a cracker once finished!

thanks very much everyone! as promised heres a little bit more..

I got my doors back from storage and seeing as i had nowhere to put them at home i decided to get the back on the car (as im quite happy to have the car sprayed with the doors on). the back one was by far the easiest but did need a couple of shims on the bottom hinge to even up the back top corners



the front needed a little bit more fettling but went on easy enough in the end, all that was left to do was apply a scrape of filler to a couple of the corners just to get them flush

Today i god the windscreen out as i knew there had been water getting in along the bottom corners, luckily it wasnt nearly as bad as id thought!
the drivers corner had some holes in and at some point in the past someone had welded a piecr of metal over these to hide them:



i cut a small area out to investigate..



which turned into a slightly larger area..



its all back to good metal now and it shouldnt be very hard to make up new bits to go in



can anyone recommend the best/cheapest place to get new screen rubber and chrome finishing strip?

For the finishing strip get it from Rarebits4classics. For the finisher clip I bought THIS

Fantastic progress; hat's off. Any chance of a update for the 'Toledo 2-4' section of the club mag?

R

That is looking BRILLIANT...! Your workmanship will definitely keep this car on the road for another 40 years and then some...

triumphtoledo wrote:Fantastic progress; hat's off. Any chance of a update for the 'Toledo 2-4' section of the club mag?

R

thanks very much, ill try and knock something out for you with some photos Rob!

cheers very much everyone, im pleased about it starting to look like a car again!

the hole round the screen was all patched and filled over quite nicely,





with the rest of the area around it cleared of rust that was pretty much all i could do with the car sitting where it was



so with a bit of push and pull work we got it turned round ready to start on the other side!..

That looks to be coming along very nicely indeed, top marks sir...

next big bit of the bodywork that needs looking in is the other sill..





first signs werent too bad, it was still rotten but not as bad as the other side had been.





It was obvious that these werent the original sills as when cutting through you can see how a new one has just been welded over the original rotten one. anything rotten was cut out and part of the back wall was welded in as well as the rectangular strengthening piece



and then the front reinforcer..





Its being done in sections just to keep reference points of what needs to sit where and at what height etc.

next section!...


most of the dust on the floor used to be sill..



you can see quite a lot has to be taken out toward the middle..





more new metal..



more has been done as its on to section 3 now but my camera batterys ran out!

Wow!!!!!

R

andrew_27 wrote:

This is a fantastic photograph!








Not sure if it is really suitable as a Dolly Mixture front cover though ?