New mk1

[polski_ogurek]

started pulling the front apart last week, and pulled the front quarter panels off.
some pics:







the worst rust i have found on the car so far


and i have been slowly starting to pull things apart, hoping to get all the doors and hatch off this week and get them stripped

[polski_ogurek]

been a LOOONG time since i uploaded anything, been heaps busy and slowly picking away at it, spent the better part of 3 weeks sorting out the raintray, had a little bit of rust, worse than i originally thought, so that took a while, and i was a bit slack, didnt really take many pics along the way, and its been hella hot in Radelaide. heres some images, going to try get the car rubbed down and any issues sorted before i go away, going to be ages till i update again, as im going away.

heres some pics:
rust free


primered raintray, after all the work was done,


closeup of the raintray

[polski_ogurek]

some more updating:
Was away for 4 weeks then back to work, so in the evenings this is what i have done so far.



cleaned up a spare door i got as the rear right has some rust issues and is badly dented


took the hatch off and found this



cleaned it up


cleaned some more, than to be safe, rust converted for all those tiny bits i couldnt get


and primed once that was ready, still needs a little work to competely smooth out


cleaned up the rear end and hit any exposed metal with primer after cleaning up the imperfections and rusty bits


now its time to get started on the front.
Can anyone please tell me, am i allowed to take these plates off and re-rivet them once the vehicle is painted?? are there any legal ramifications if i do so???


and some of the worst rust i have come across so far


thats it for now

Jonasz

[Stiggy_21]

Can anyone please tell me, am i allowed to take these plates off and re-rivet them once the vehicle is painted?? are there any legal ramifications if i do so???

seeing as your in SA, i can't see why not.
As for VIC... well who knows, its probably illegal

just take them off and pop them back on after paint.

great work too!!

[polski_ogurek]

That's what I was thinking, as long as they are there after its painted should be all good, out of curiority, anyone know what the one on the right is? the painted one??
cheers

[polski_ogurek]

Time for an update, been a long time since i touched the mk1, probably due to the lack of time(final year masters )

So i finally got to fixing up the drivers side, which had a fair amount of rust.



and i started on around the front window which wasn't too bad, had some surface rust where the window surround meets the bonnet


and thats about it, and unfortunately im back at uni next week, so probably wont touch it for a while again

[polski_ogurek]

Been HEAPS busy with uni, but have had a break for the last week or so, and i have done a little bit of work to the mk1 between actual paid work and still doing some assignments.
Heres what I've done:

the front panel was pretty wonky, but not too bad, so i worked on that







Eventually i got it all flat and straight, worth the effort





Then i decided I'm going to work on the front quarter panels(or whatever they are called)







once i thought i was done, i sprayed the panel with some primer, to preotect the metal, and all these dimples from soda blasting came up , more work





So, I decided to go over the panels and skim coat them to fill the dimples and then re-paint, and this has seems to come up well, but haven't got any pics of that yet.

Thats it for now, Another 8 weeks and this will go full steam, can't wait

[polski_ogurek]

Well, thought I should add to this. It has been a fair while.

So since uni finished in November, after all was wrapped up, I was keen but time killed all my plans before the new year and didn't do much else to the car till after new year. Since then i have finished that front panel off and got that ready to go in primer, and started on the other side.

To say this one was mungered up is an understatement, looks like it had a accident on the leading edge and the panel was pushed in, not much but 2-3mm. So after bogging and sanding that back 300 times, or at least it felt like it, its getting close, hoping to finish that off on Sunday.

In between that and work and trying to lose weight for my sisters wedding, I also ripped the dash out(cracked to hell) and I think I'm going to have a go at re-skining it. Before i can do that it needed to be re-glued in places, straightened out and all the cracks/missing foam sorted.

So I stripped the vinyl skin off the dash.









Then I cut out the gaps from where the sun had eaten and damaged the foam.





Glued the air channel back to the underside of the dash.

Used moisture + wooden boards to try and straighten the whole thing out, worked out ok.







Then filled the gaps with expanding foam, and finally spent hours shaving that foam down to keep the lines of the dash.

[sports racer]

I've never seen anyone repair a dash. Impressive work, looks great so far, you should be proud of yourself.

Cheers

Paul

[polski_ogurek]

Cheers

Pretty happy with where I'm at. Now just gotta find seats then I can buy material to match the dash to the seats. Hopefully it works. Can't be worse than what it was. Haha

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