It followed me home, can we keep it?
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Perosnally, I cant wait to see lots of oily pictures!
As I've got comparatively little indoor workshop space, Junior will need to stay outside in a carcoon booble when I'm working on other cars (I've got to complete 2 Dinos, a 330 2+2 and whizz the motor and box out of Grahams F40 before Xmas! . . . as well as the usual trickle of friends needing a helping hand) So I've had to take the cracked driver’s window out . . . .which didn’t go well, as soon as I tried to move it, I got showered in toughened glass cubes!
So todays task, was to get the OSF interior door panel apart and work out what needs to be done whilst its in bits
1: quick tip, as well as the screws and bolts, you also need to remove the door lock button, which is normally frozen solid to the shaft, to avoid scratching the chrome, it’s easier to put a tech glove over it as protection and pop the mole grips over the top of that . . . . The rubberised palm of the glove provides a better grip than a cloth would
2: The offending glass carrier, this needs to be stripped, bead blasted and powder coated before it can go back in the car.
3: Door frame and window gubbins, some talentless clown has been in here before and sealed the door membrane up with packing tape
I’ll be doing it properly and using cloth backed tape that will flex properly and not drop off at the first sign of damp!
4: These are the door panel components of a Rolls / Bentley, given the number of parts that will be coming off this car for repair / repaint / cleaning / chrome, it’s imperative that everything is labelled and bagged up with its fasteners . . . . due to the value of Ferrari bits, I’ve now started NFC tagging the expensive bits
5: The door arm rest was typically dirty, cleaned them up with Autoglym leather cleaner and then rubbed over with leather rejuvenation oil . . . A tip learnt from Moto technique was that as this stuff evaporates (and other solventy type goop) it’s more effective if you put it on and then quickly cover it in cling film
So todays task, was to get the OSF interior door panel apart and work out what needs to be done whilst its in bits
1: quick tip, as well as the screws and bolts, you also need to remove the door lock button, which is normally frozen solid to the shaft, to avoid scratching the chrome, it’s easier to put a tech glove over it as protection and pop the mole grips over the top of that . . . . The rubberised palm of the glove provides a better grip than a cloth would
2: The offending glass carrier, this needs to be stripped, bead blasted and powder coated before it can go back in the car.
3: Door frame and window gubbins, some talentless clown has been in here before and sealed the door membrane up with packing tape
I’ll be doing it properly and using cloth backed tape that will flex properly and not drop off at the first sign of damp!4: These are the door panel components of a Rolls / Bentley, given the number of parts that will be coming off this car for repair / repaint / cleaning / chrome, it’s imperative that everything is labelled and bagged up with its fasteners . . . . due to the value of Ferrari bits, I’ve now started NFC tagging the expensive bits
5: The door arm rest was typically dirty, cleaned them up with Autoglym leather cleaner and then rubbed over with leather rejuvenation oil . . . A tip learnt from Moto technique was that as this stuff evaporates (and other solventy type goop) it’s more effective if you put it on and then quickly cover it in cling film
Edited by AndrewW-G on Sunday 17th July 16:36
Ok, so had 30 mins to play today . . . . . first up was the window lifter thingy, needs a couple of repairs before it can be sent off to be powder coated!
Whilst I had the grinder out, I thought I'd have a look at the state of the front wings . . . . . . Great big gobbets of filler and rust! What I can’t understand, is that when the car was painted, it wouldn’t take more than an hour or two more to repair properly
oh well, just another 5-6 hours of metal work before paint 
Tune in soon for the next instalment of "Not all specialists are capable of working to the required standard / Fixing somebody else’s crap workmanship" . . . . .
Whilst I had the grinder out, I thought I'd have a look at the state of the front wings . . . . . . Great big gobbets of filler and rust! What I can’t understand, is that when the car was painted, it wouldn’t take more than an hour or two more to repair properly
oh well, just another 5-6 hours of metal work before paint Tune in soon for the next instalment of "Not all specialists are capable of working to the required standard / Fixing somebody else’s crap workmanship" . . . . .
Trommel said:
I know, but I'm always amazed that people will bodge stuff like that.
I think I know who was responsible, but I dont want to upset Garlick by naming and shaming the individuals concerned . . . .again!besides, this way, we have a nice thread about how to "de-bodge" a Bentley and repair it properly
Regarding the earlier comment about Active Ride vs. non, I'll chime in here and say that my '96 Turbo R rides much firmer than my former standard suspension '89 R did. I'm sure it helps in the handling department, but for pootling around town, I must admit I liked the way the '89 rode better, because when I want to hang the tail out, I'll hop in the TR6
After following a thread about a man who had no money and was trying to convince the world he was going to buy a Diablo GT, which subsequently (surprise, surprise never happened) and turned out to be a complete waste of my lunch break.
And recently chancing upon a thread from what i imaging is a 'bit of a car dealer' posing as a super car owner, who is apparently going to restore a classic Ferrari from scratch and then give it away to charity (Not going to bother reading that thread any further)....... I was then delighted to then come across this thread as i know its real, its genuine, it’s interesting, and so could i request an update so I can follow your work on this car through to completion?
Thanks
And recently chancing upon a thread from what i imaging is a 'bit of a car dealer' posing as a super car owner, who is apparently going to restore a classic Ferrari from scratch and then give it away to charity (Not going to bother reading that thread any further)....... I was then delighted to then come across this thread as i know its real, its genuine, it’s interesting, and so could i request an update so I can follow your work on this car through to completion?
Thanks
richard300 said:
After following a thread about a man who had no money and was trying to convince the world he was going to buy a Diablo GT, which subsequently (surprise, surprise never happened) and turned out to be a complete waste of my lunch break.
And recently chancing upon a thread from what i imaging is a 'bit of a car dealer' posing as a super car owner, who is apparently going to restore a classic Ferrari from scratch and then give it away to charity (Not going to bother reading that thread any further)....... I was then delighted to then come across this thread as i know its real, its genuine, it’s interesting, and so could i request an update so I can follow your work on this car through to completion?
Thanks
Hi Richard,And recently chancing upon a thread from what i imaging is a 'bit of a car dealer' posing as a super car owner, who is apparently going to restore a classic Ferrari from scratch and then give it away to charity (Not going to bother reading that thread any further)....... I was then delighted to then come across this thread as i know its real, its genuine, it’s interesting, and so could i request an update so I can follow your work on this car through to completion?
Thanks
A full update should be along shortly
I've just invested a few pennies in some rather swanky blasting kit, this will allow me to soda blast the body shell, so we can really see how bad the bodywork is at which point I'll be able to work out a plan for this car . . .
The GTE restoration thread is a bit interesting isn’t it, I think I even asked the guy why he would want to restore a body shell that somebody has already removed all the rather valuable bits from
You think there is that much metal? . . . . . . 
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