I am also so invested in your work !! And am watching you with great passion for what you are bringing back to life !! I think these cars are last of the old days before plastic got involved 🤔 ! Look forward to your next vid 👍👍😁.
Ye me also ! I have a gt6 MK1 which I have had for ten years and have just pushed out of the garage and examined what is there!! I will be following your trail! 🤔!!! Thanks for inspiring me Nick !.
Awesome! I look forward to hearing how it goes. There’s almost nothing on these cars you can’t learn to do yourself if you want to. Since 2020 I’ve taught myself to weld and fabricate panels, rebuilt an engine, rebuilt several gearboxes, none of which I’d done before.
Thanks Bob, yeah getting everything lined up is a faff. I'm currently rebuilding the door, and then will try and match everything else to that. I'm grateful in this case though the bulkhead and rear body are welded together so I don't have to repeat the messing about I had to do on the Herald after paint!
Thanks! That’s useful feedback as it’s sometimes difficult to judge what to put in or leave out. The spot welder ended up being fairly expensive, but results in far less time wielding a grinder so is definitely worth it.
Thanks! Yeah this is where I find making videos very helpful, real life is several weeks ahead of this, so it gives me a good reminder of how much I've managed to do!
This is just what my MK3 Spit looked like, loads of holes and bad repairs, fortunately for me I employed a welder and a shed load of panels from Sports Car Supplies , I remember getting home from work in summer and saw exactly what your fixing now. This must have been recorded a while back , as unless you have some heating in the garage it's not going to be a warm place to work , if my garage is anything to go by anyway, lol...As far as I can tell, you have a two car garage, you own at least 3 that I am aware of - so which one is either leaving or being parked outside?... Talking of which any news on the Herald ?. Great work here as always.
Hah, well my Mk3 Spit was waaayyyy worse :D I do wish Sports Car Supplies still had a physical presence as they would've been very local to me. Oh well. Yeah the videos are currently a few weeks behind real life cause I'm not that swift an editor. Though today it's not been all that cold in the garage. Doing a load of grinding helps there though as there's plenty of excess heat. The Herald has recently gone for paint. Still don't know when it's coming back, or indeed quite what I'm going to do with three classic cars at once...
@@redfoxclassics Oh, they had that shop, I visited it once on one of my trips up north for work, has Andy sold the place then, I knew Andy quite well as I spent a fortune with him in the early days, the bonnet I had on my car came from Andy as well, we swapped bonnets one day at Stoneliegh show ground. SCS, don't seem to have anything I want, I have looked , maybe he sold the whole company or is running it from home now ?.
He's still selling online, and via eBay. One of the guys I know in the local TSSC branch lives a few doors down from him. The site in Gateshead is gone (I used to work 5 mins away and went round as it was still listed as open, to be disappointed!) I was talking about them the other day too, just bought a spare overdrive gearbox, the overdrive unit of which came out of a GT6 purchased from SCS in the early 80s that met its end after the diff exploded on a roundabout in South Gosforth!
Looks like the front of your bonnet needs to go up just a little. That will help the gap at the door and the alignment of the wheel arch to the rocker panel. Always such a fiddly area to work. Don't be afraid to make the aftermarket panels fit the car. They always need some fettling. (But I'm sure you already know this 😉)
Yeah the problem here is (I think, at the moment!) that the replacement wing's trailing edge is not quite at 90 degrees to the lower edge that meets the sill. I'm actually just now reaching the point of being able to start properly fitting all these outer panels though, so I will be checking and re-checking everything very shortly!
I am also so invested in your work !! And am watching you with great passion for what you are bringing back to life !! I think these cars are last of the old days before plastic got involved 🤔 ! Look forward to your next vid 👍👍😁.
Thanks! They’re definitely of a different era, the 60s are the peak of car aesthetics for me.
Ye me also ! I have a gt6 MK1 which I have had for ten years and have just pushed out of the garage and examined what is there!! I will be following your trail! 🤔!!! Thanks for inspiring me Nick !.
Awesome! I look forward to hearing how it goes. There’s almost nothing on these cars you can’t learn to do yourself if you want to. Since 2020 I’ve taught myself to weld and fabricate panels, rebuilt an engine, rebuilt several gearboxes, none of which I’d done before.
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Sounds amazing! Can't wait for next video 👍 p s I am also jealous of your spot welder 😅!!👍.
Like listening to the birds 🐦
Hah, yeah, as do I!
This is getting trickier with each refit of the three panels and gaps. You are doing a great job. Cheers Bob
Thanks Bob, yeah getting everything lined up is a faff. I'm currently rebuilding the door, and then will try and match everything else to that. I'm grateful in this case though the bulkhead and rear body are welded together so I don't have to repeat the messing about I had to do on the Herald after paint!
Great work! Very jealous of your spot welder. I enjoy watching your problem solving strategy.
Thanks! That’s useful feedback as it’s sometimes difficult to judge what to put in or leave out. The spot welder ended up being fairly expensive, but results in far less time wielding a grinder so is definitely worth it.
Great attention to detail !
Thanks! I do like to try and make things look right.
Looking good and making progress!!
Thanks! Yeah this is where I find making videos very helpful, real life is several weeks ahead of this, so it gives me a good reminder of how much I've managed to do!
This is just what my MK3 Spit looked like, loads of holes and bad repairs, fortunately for me I employed a welder and a shed load of panels from Sports Car Supplies , I remember getting home from work in summer and saw exactly what your fixing now. This must have been recorded a while back , as unless you have some heating in the garage it's not going to be a warm place to work , if my garage is anything to go by anyway, lol...As far as I can tell, you have a two car garage, you own at least 3 that I am aware of - so which one is either leaving or being parked outside?... Talking of which any news on the Herald ?. Great work here as always.
Hah, well my Mk3 Spit was waaayyyy worse :D I do wish Sports Car Supplies still had a physical presence as they would've been very local to me. Oh well.
Yeah the videos are currently a few weeks behind real life cause I'm not that swift an editor. Though today it's not been all that cold in the garage. Doing a load of grinding helps there though as there's plenty of excess heat.
The Herald has recently gone for paint. Still don't know when it's coming back, or indeed quite what I'm going to do with three classic cars at once...
@@redfoxclassics Oh, they had that shop, I visited it once on one of my trips up north for work, has Andy sold the place then, I knew Andy quite well as I spent a fortune with him in the early days, the bonnet I had on my car came from Andy as well, we swapped bonnets one day at Stoneliegh show ground. SCS, don't seem to have anything I want, I have looked , maybe he sold the whole company or is running it from home now ?.
He's still selling online, and via eBay. One of the guys I know in the local TSSC branch lives a few doors down from him. The site in Gateshead is gone (I used to work 5 mins away and went round as it was still listed as open, to be disappointed!) I was talking about them the other day too, just bought a spare overdrive gearbox, the overdrive unit of which came out of a GT6 purchased from SCS in the early 80s that met its end after the diff exploded on a roundabout in South Gosforth!
Looks like the front of your bonnet needs to go up just a little. That will help the gap at the door and the alignment of the wheel arch to the rocker panel.
Always such a fiddly area to work.
Don't be afraid to make the aftermarket panels fit the car. They always need some fettling. (But I'm sure you already know this 😉)
Yeah the problem here is (I think, at the moment!) that the replacement wing's trailing edge is not quite at 90 degrees to the lower edge that meets the sill. I'm actually just now reaching the point of being able to start properly fitting all these outer panels though, so I will be checking and re-checking everything very shortly!
that looks to be 214% better! ;-)
Strangely this is also by how much I underestimated the work needed on this car :D
@@redfoxclassics hehe