by abbirkin » Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:53 am
I've just had a good laugh Cass - your account on changing the oil was brilliant, I've done that cursing with oil going up my sleeve....
I feel for Paddy with his decision. I have been so lucky with my S type; as described on my post it was an abandoned car for 7-9 years but I did have the advantage of knowing the car before it was dumped in the garage next to where I stored my Frogeye Sprite which I had for 30+ years (I only sold it because I had to wear gloves, not to drive it but to put my hand on the pavement to crawl out in my old age!).
Body wise, I knew it had stood on a main road through the winter, and can clearly remember seeing it one year with with snow piled up from the snow plough and salty slush all splashed over the side and thinking this car is not going to last long. However, when I bought it some 9 years later I only had to replace the two outer sills to run it for a few years with very little rust emanating.
About 4 years ago I decided to tackle the bit of rust which was starting to show and a local garage welded in a rear door panel because of a 3 inch 'bleb', bang in the centre of the door caused by the felt under the bolt which supported the window frame. Must be a common rust stop I'm sure. I also had a rear panel under the bumper welded in.
Whilst he was spraying these parts I told them to do the other doors and before long I said you may as well do the whole car. I followed the progress and was reasonably happy what was going on in spite of archaic conditions and premises. I paid just £2000 for all this work, maybe why they went bankrupt about 90% of the way having to have it finished elsewhere. The pictures on my post show how it turned out so as I said earlier, I have been VERY lucky considering how the car was treated in its earlier life.
I wish Paddy all the best with project.
I've just had a good laugh Cass - your account on changing the oil was brilliant, I've done that cursing with oil going up my sleeve....
I feel for Paddy with his decision. I have been so lucky with my S type; as described on my post it was an abandoned car for 7-9 years but I did have the advantage of knowing the car before it was dumped in the garage next to where I stored my Frogeye Sprite which I had for 30+ years (I only sold it because I had to wear gloves, not to drive it but to put my hand on the pavement to crawl out in my old age!).
Body wise, I knew it had stood on a main road through the winter, and can clearly remember seeing it one year with with snow piled up from the snow plough and salty slush all splashed over the side and thinking this car is not going to last long. However, when I bought it some 9 years later I only had to replace the two outer sills to run it for a few years with very little rust emanating.
About 4 years ago I decided to tackle the bit of rust which was starting to show and a local garage welded in a rear door panel because of a 3 inch 'bleb', bang in the centre of the door caused by the felt under the bolt which supported the window frame. Must be a common rust stop I'm sure. I also had a rear panel under the bumper welded in.
Whilst he was spraying these parts I told them to do the other doors and before long I said you may as well do the whole car. I followed the progress and was reasonably happy what was going on in spite of archaic conditions and premises. I paid just £2000 for all this work, maybe why they went bankrupt about 90% of the way having to have it finished elsewhere. The pictures on my post show how it turned out so as I said earlier, I have been VERY lucky considering how the car was treated in its earlier life.
I wish Paddy all the best with project.