Canada MKI Capri- restotime

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Re: Canada MKI Capri- restotime

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Inner sill welded in

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rear hanger area repairs

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Outer sill welded on

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gettin' there
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bracing off the door way, YAY!!


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and a piece of angle iron to bridge the small gap between the floor and the inner sill


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And new chassis skid section welded in

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looking really good there!
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347 V8 wrote:looking really good there!
Thank you. Not quite up there with your epic restoration tho!
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Craigorypeck wrote:
347 V8 wrote:looking really good there!
Thank you. Not quite up there with your epic restoration tho!
Yea, well, I paid restore a ford to do my bodywork...but I did my Mk 2 in a lock up many moons ago. I guarantee you would have spent significantly less than I spent on my Mk 1....and by the way it's going, your car should look superb. I completely re-paneled my mk 2 and it took years on and off, so it can be a long slog, but once done, you'll soon forget about it and get onto doing the engine and more interesting bits! I'm sure your restoration is of a better standard than many so called professionals.
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347 V8 wrote:
Craigorypeck wrote:
347 V8 wrote:looking really good there!
Thank you. Not quite up there with your epic restoration tho!
Yea, well, I paid restore a ford to do my bodywork...but I did my Mk 2 in a lock up many moons ago. I guarantee you would have spent significantly less than I spent on my Mk 1....and by the way it's going, your car should look superb. I completely re-paneled my mk 2 and it took years on and off, so it can be a long slog, but once done, you'll soon forget about it and get onto doing the engine and more interesting bits! I'm sure your restoration is of a better standard than many so called professionals.
I think it was restore-a-fords website that gimme the balls to attempt it.. looking at the pics etc.
Budget wise I can't do it for any less and keep it to a standard id be happy with. The panels from express cost more than the car did.

I really just wanted to make it go faster and not have to actually make it, but I'm enjoying it none the less.
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Foot well

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Fixed with piece of 1/8 steel which binds all these areas together and also acts as a corner brace.

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That area is pretty much done I think.

Had to break up photos as my phone was acting a dick.
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Superb! Coming together nicely. A long slog at this point, but worth it!
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347 V8 wrote:Superb! Coming together nicely. A long slog at this point, but worth it!

Yeah, defs a long slog... every night 7 days a week!

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It's looking great. Wish I had the skills to even think about attempting something like this!
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MattMe wrote:It's looking great. Wish I had the skills to even think about attempting something like this!

You'll never know unless you try?! I'm a novice....


some rear hanger/floor pan area repairs.


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Other side scuttle and area underneath all patched up.
And more rust cut away at the A post... I've basically just chopped out all the overlapped spot welds..



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And another piece of 1/8 steel to match the repair on the other side... H days


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Amazing work. Does nothing phase you??!
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jimmyted wrote:Amazing work. Does nothing phase you??!

'bout ye!?

hmmm, I'm not so good with confrontation. . .!

more repairs

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Sills on and bracing off the other side...

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And more rear hanger area repairs

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Coming along very well, I noticed that you mentioned Expressed steel panels, must be a swine importing from the UK, especially with the exchange rates and shipping costs, are Team Blitz still going, I think they used to advertise steel panels, I don't know what the quality is like, but you'd save a fortune on shipping perhaps?
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Hey Andy
I have enquired about quite a lot of stuff at team blitz and it's cheaper to buy from uk and ship it to Canada.
It's unfortunate, being such a rare car drives the prices through the roof over here but Martin at caprigear has been my savior for a lot of stuff.
Smith and deakon were a pleasure to deal with too.
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