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Great job and a great sense of achievement once you have finished. My only bits of advice for anyone starting a rebuild are: It's going to cost twice as much & twice as long as you estimate. Clean the underside of the car as best you can, working on a car with dust & rust falling in your eyes reduces your urge to just spend half an hour working on it. Angle grinders are cheap & keep swapping cutting blades to grinding, to flap wheels takes a lot of time. Often cheap lighter grinders are fine for cutting & using a flap wheel & reduce the strain on your arms when holding them over your head, lying on your back. I agree, buy a good welder & use the unseen parts of the car to practice on, once you can do basic welds. Check the penetration of the welds by looking on the back of the panel. Once you have dialled this in for a set of panels, note down the settings, so you can quickly reset a welder for the other side. Auto darkening helmets, even cheap ones, are a game changer but sometimes there just isn't space, so protect your skin & especially your eyes. Arc eye is very painful & quite concerning, ask me how I know. 😏

I am so glad that you have posted this. I bought a 1958 last year that needs a little welding and respraying. But today I picked up a 1955 series 2 split screen the outer shell panels and body are good but the floor is completely rotted out. Loads of work and like you I have no history of welding or spraying. Joys of classic cars I guess...lol

You’re very lucky today with the use of mig welders! Back in my day it was either gas welding with oxygen & acetylene or brazing ! But brazing was actually stronger then gas welding especially if you did a lap joint! Your really spoilt having a mig welder! I have one now but don’t do any panel work on my vehicles but I think I made a suggestion to remove the shielded cover from the end of your torch so you can actually see the wire & where you want to weld, without having to cock your head to one side or the other! You can only do this using the gasless wire!

Remove the shield on the end of the welding torch so you can see the welding process & aim the wire where you intend to weld! Especially if you’re using a gas less wire !

You seem to be doing a good job of the restoration. Well done.

Great videos of restoring an affordable classic. Keep them coming. Knowing where you are sourcing panels etc. would be nice.

wear some gloves

These vids are brilliant. Most fast forward or just obscure the actual work, leaving you no clearer as to what is actually being done ! Keep going ! I think you should invest in a battery powered impact driver to match your drill though - would make disassembly jobs so much faster for you

You are doing an incredibly good job mate. 👍

This is absolutely superb. So many people would be very daunted trying to do this restoration. You’re doing great. I’m binge watching this project! Those wolf race wheels are great where did you get those from? Brian 👍🇬🇧

I’ve always thought a minor traveller would look great with aluminium instead of wood at the back. Every part that would be wood being made out of aluminium, it would be better structurally and easily polished. It wouldn’t rot.

Can we get something on its larger version .the 1952 Morris Oxford. Many of these manufactured in India

Hi mate Where did you get that floor edge panel 14.02 min of your video:)? Thanks

Is your mig welder a dual purpose and do you use it with gas or no gas.

I admire you for attacking something you are not expert in and even admitting your shortcomings. i also enjoy your video. keep up the good work

I can’t help but think the heat from all the spot welds removes the paint on the inside on the of the panels exposing them to the elements and the never sleeping rust.

Damn ! What a lot of rusty metal removal ! Reminds me of a MGB I once restored .

You appear to be removing a lot of solid metal. It is sometimes better to cut out the portion of the patch panel you need and weld tat in rather than replace the entire part. A lot less work and the end result is often better.

Is it for sale

Great episodes and work 👏

Be careful drilling holes like that, i learnt the hard way and have a matching hole in my leg😢😂😂

Good job. May I ask you what is the Grey paint used for undercoating?

It’s a Portsmouth car. My choir master’s car was PBK655H, a Renault.

Well, this is "A MAJOR Restoration"!! And an impressing one!!

Tough luck with the welder. Hope that it might be repairable. 500 mile journey must have been hard going.

Sorry this one took so long to get out!

Hi I have a 1969 2 door in currently converting to motorcycle engine bandit 1200 I’m liking the videos

Hello Mate, you are doing an excellent job and its making me remember of all the joy and fun that I've got to come putting new sills chassis legs and floors in mine this year. Never do any angle grinding or welding near your windows you'll put pits in them. Can't wait to see her finished and mine too! All the best.

What a patient skillful man!

How's progress? A winter break? Really appreciate the honesty in videos as it helps us avoid SOME of the potential errors!

Where are you getting the new replacement panels from.

Impressive! In a basic setting with basic tools anyone could afford and basic skills anyone could learn you achieve professional results! Thanks to your inexhaustible energy, perseverance, improvisation power, technical talents and... courage! Thanks also for taking the efforts to film the whole process, edit the raw material and post it on TH-cam! Ton

Interesting to watch you do this job with the few tools you have. You are very determined and have a positive attitude. However spent a lot of the time cringing, it's a wonder you haven't gashed your hands. Do yourself a favour and save my nerves 😂 get a decent pair of work gloves.

I'm impressed. Looking forward to part 2. Just subbed.

I have binge watched this whole series. I maybe a bit weird but I enjoyed watching hours of grinding and welding because it is clear that you are putting care and attention into what you are doing. Good luck for the rest of the project.

Fair play to you buddy. but you can only watch so much of welding. I hope you get a lot more likes.

Well it's good for us that you that you made a mistake and had the guts to show us so we don't. Most channels only show the good bits. The thing I try to remember when I realise I have made a mistake is a quote someone once told me. " A man who never made a mistake never made anything". 👍

Surely to goodness they could have designed a simpler layout for the sills rather than that complex structure? You’ve a heart like a lion!

You must love your Morris as much as I love my Sprinter campervan I built. Thankfully the rust was only panels and not structural pillars on mine. I think I'd have have passed on your task.You must have some tenacity, well done.

Well done a very high standard for a beginner. Don’t worry about the mistakes we all do it - whilst welding I once set fire to myself! You learn from it, I like you PPE keep it up - don’t remove guards learn to work around it! a tip for removing spot welds that are invisible use a grinder - the welds spots glow red. Use a DA sander with a 36 grit discs to rough up prior to paint - and use phosphoric acid to neutralise rust in older panels - I make my own! Keep on and keep battling- you are doing very well indeed.

Fine work lad.

It happend to me when welding my mazda up the underseal caught light. Luckily I smelt burning before it took hold lol

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Well done men great job.

I am really enjoying your video's you have the perfect balance between commentary, time lapse and the real nitty gritty. Part 6 is now showing nice progress as new panels are fitted. The rust you uncovered during the earlier episodes would have destroyed me! I look forward to seeing further progress.

TEK screws are cheap and really useful for holding multiple panels in place to check panel fit before doing any substantive welding. Keep up the good work 😊

Jigsaws must be a doddle for you! Your patience and spatial thinking is amazing.

You’ve a heart like a lion ya boy ye! Just a shame that all that good work won’t be seen once everything is reassembled. At least you have these TH-cam records. Good luck.

Invest in a youtube vid on sharpening your drill! you won't regret it.

Hi what make is your welder