Back in the '70's I did a bunch of rust repair on a '65, '70, Bugeye, and a 62 Sprite. Always the rockers - back then all we could find were the JCWhitney ones that we paper thin. Plus had to gas weld with hangers (filler) or braze - lots of warping and bondo.
Cricket!… That’s quite a project you have there. It sounds like the greatest challenge is putting right the bodges applied by previous owners. I have a mkIII 69 that has rust in all the usual places, I’m fortunate in that it is original, rotten but original. If you haven’t seen it already try Robs ‘Restoration Garage’ and ‘Ex Mini Racer’ they do some rebuild of flanges. Your approach looks sound, keep it up 👍
Thanks for the comments and the encouragement. You're right. I foolishly thought having had work done by previous owners might reduce the work I have to do but although the first owner did some decent work around the rear end the last guy totally messed things up. I subscribe to both Rob and Ex Mini Racer and their videos have been really helpful.
Back in the '70's I did a bunch of rust repair on a '65, '70, Bugeye, and a 62 Sprite. Always the rockers - back then all we could find were the JCWhitney ones that we paper thin. Plus had to gas weld with hangers (filler) or braze - lots of warping and bondo.
Cricket!… That’s quite a project you have there. It sounds like the greatest challenge is putting right the bodges applied by previous owners. I have a mkIII 69 that has rust in all the usual places, I’m fortunate in that it is original, rotten but original. If you haven’t seen it already try Robs ‘Restoration Garage’ and ‘Ex Mini Racer’ they do some rebuild of flanges. Your approach looks sound, keep it up 👍
Thanks for the comments and the encouragement. You're right. I foolishly thought having had work done by previous owners might reduce the work I have to do but although the first owner did some decent work around the rear end the last guy totally messed things up. I subscribe to both Rob and Ex Mini Racer and their videos have been really helpful.
G'day nice video mate