This past week I have been stripping the deck lid amongst other odd jobs; such as improving the lighting situation in the garage because the days are getting increasingly shorter! As with the front wing the deck lid had been taken back to bare metal previously and left without any protection (I still don’t know what possessed me to do that!). Surface rust:
Freshly stripped:
....and primed:
As previously noted, it is all in good shape apart from one small area that will require a repair patch. I also want to weld up the three badge holes as I know that these are not original.
I will also be switching the number
plate light from the early ‘popes nose’ type back to one that is correct for
the year.
The back of the panel took quite a while to sort out because of all the hard to reach areas:
The back of the panel took quite a while to sort out because of all the hard to reach areas:
Good word dude.
ReplyDeleteThanks mate! Which word was it that you particularly liked?
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