Front Inner Wing Restoration

When we bought the car one inner wing was mostly rusted out, and had been badly patched with fibreglass which was well on the way to falling though to the road. The other had been badly welded and was rusting. Both bumper mounts had rusted out and had been repaired with a single thickness of plate with the bumpers simply bolted through. We decided to get it all properly repaired rather than bodge it again. In the end it turned into a general front end restoration. Work done included:

• Both inner wings repaired.
• Both bumper mounts replaced.
• Sides of front valance repaired.
• Bottom of spare wheel well repaired.
• Patch repairs to both wings.

This work was done by Alex Taylor at Defcon-3 during spring '03.

Pictures

Before

Offside Inside	Spare Wheel Well	Nearside Inside
OS Inner Wing	NS Wing Bottom	NS Wing Top

OS Wing Bottom	OS Bumper Mounting	OS Valance	NS Bumper Mounting

During

In these pictures you can see bits of yellow : these are good panels we cut out of our '72 parts car before it was scrapped. The whole offside inner wing around the petrol filler hole also came from this car.

OS Inner Bottom	NS Inner Bottom	NS Stripped
NS Bumper & Well Welded	OS Bumper Mount	OS Bumper & Well Welded
OS In Progress I	OS In Progress II	OS All Done

After

OS Inside	Front	NS Inside
OS Wing	NS Wing Bottom	NS Wing Top
OS Bumper Mount	Wheel Well	NS Bumper Mount

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