Yup, it will be done at the same place.
Alex is having fun working out WTF happened with the rear of my chassis. This was the bit which always worried me as whilst the rear fascia was immaculate I could see a crease either side of the engine which was on top and bottom which could only have been a rear dink, well it turns out that crease is at multiple points and has even pulled one of the rear turrets out of alignment.
So whilst rot is good news structural alignment is a little off. Which I feel happy about as
a. I always suspected something like this
b. I caught it in time
c. its not wasted effort
d. its all fixableLuckily Alex seems well equipped to sort it out and keeping in mind he can build a chassis ground up from nothing I have no concerns leaving it with him. Just the fact from the pics below you can see even before he has started doing anything its up high and clear so he can see all around it at a good height to work out what's needed.
This is probably one of the worst pics showing the result.
Red marker showing the warp
Correct Mount
Wrong Mount should be flat
Even getting "freaking Laser beams" on it.....
So glad I took it apart, it appears to be in time from a rot perspective and whilst some of the alignment isn't a big deal I have asked Alex to sort it, no point with all this effort and time and 1/2 assing it.
Its amazing there were a few were I thought, it wasn't like that before the acid bath has something happened, then I look back at some other pictures I took whilst dismantling it and you can see odd little things which I wouldn't have picked up on before.
So no matter how good your welder/mechanic chap is, I can now see the massive benefit taking it to someone who specialises in that vehicle.
Alex was telling me about the front extensions and how they really just weren't fit for purpose and with all the braking etc the roll bar just rags them around too much and its such thin metal.
I assume things like that and the LCA's and TAB's would have all been failure/recall items if more of the cars were made and did high mileage.
Still its 40 years old In a few months so not too bad.
// Just to add we have social distanced the whole time and all I did was drop it off, the rest of the pics are from Alex.