Jensen Interceptor
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Getting
the car ready for us to begin the bodywork
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Rear
shot of car showing the very large windscreen
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Front view |
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As
soon as we started removing the paint and stone
guard and allot of body filler the extent of the rust was
starting to become evident
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Once we cleaned the floor pan, the rust was very evident | Rusted out floor pan cut out |
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| Shows the extent of the rust, and you could only tell how rusty it actually is, once you remove the inner and outer sills |
This
view shows a bit of everything, plenty of
filler on the lower quarter panel, bodgy
patches on the insides and plenty of corrosion
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Old rusty panels with the fabricated panels |
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| Fabricated O/S lower firewall and floor pan |
We
fabricated a reinforcement panel on the inside of the lower firewall
and floor pan section
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Fabricated panel along side rusty panel |
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| Trial fitting fabricated top of sill panel |
Trial
fitting panels
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Fabricated panels along side old panels |
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Another
view of the extent of the rust that has penetrated to almost every
panel we've seen so far
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N/S section once we removed the sill panel | A good view of the ns rust once we cut out the lower quarter panel section |
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| N/S floor pan cut out |
N/S
fabricated floor pan
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All the rusty panels that we replaced SO FAR |
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| O/S panels trial fitted in place and ready for trial fitting of the door | Trial fitted door and gaps look perfect | Paint stripping body, there was allot of material under the paint |
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The best part of the car
was the bonnet, ready for primer
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Rear tailgate panel off, as the owner has a new panel for us to fit in place, but before we do so there is allot of cleaning and preparing to do | Tailgate panel welding place |
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| Trial fitting left inner wheel arch, we will weld this last or else we cant get access to file finish the quarter panel properly | Another view of the quarter panel | Right rear quarter panel oxy welded in place (for new panels we had to do allot of work to make it suit, as not all new panels are perfect fits) |
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| Left rear quarter panel welded in place and was better made than the right side | Fabricated left side of boot panel | All sill panels welded in place showing the perfect gap |
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| Left lower inner structural panel fabricated and welded in place, all box sections primered before welding in place | The fabricated panel and rusty old panel in comparison | Fabricating panels that run along under the front headlight area and ready to weld in place |
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| Trial fitting front grille and bumper bar before we weld the front lower apron panel | Fabricated panel for the rusty lower quarter window section | Fabricated panel oxy welded in place |
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| Fabricated right side of boot panel | Left sill panel structural area in primer, as all the panels are new, there is still the outer sill panel that needs to get welded | Fabricated panel welded in place on the inner wheel arch |