{"id":53,"date":"2020-03-20T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickt.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2020-07-17T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T10:55:25","slug":"the-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nickt.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"The Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The body was rotten, both floorpans were more or less detached from the rest of the body, bulk head gone, rear arches gone, sills and inner sills gone… in any other world this car would have gone to the crusher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only parts I bought were 2 outer sills and 2 sill end plates. The rest was made from 2.4m x 1.2m 18 gauge steel sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The additional challenge with this car is that the boot\/trunk space will occupy the engine and transaxle, so cutting out all the steel from the boot\/trunk seriously weakened the rear end, which was already very bad dues to rust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The danger, (as my friends on the internet pointed out) was that after welding up, the car would not sit properly on its chassis, the door gaps would be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grinding out the old floor and replacing with shiny new steel is very satisfying, I bet the neighbours loved the sound of the angle grinder..<\/p>\n\n\n\n