Nothing too heavy to sort on nearside rear. Nice outcome. Top of d pillar thankfully clean - it’s one of the worst jobs to do that corner. Got a patch to cut out, new arch to go in and remove and reinstall belt reinforcement plate so that I can re-skin under it. Also got to redo boot floor to...

I don’t use the centre spring loaded ones anymore as I always end up jamming them up. I use a solid one. As above, use cutting oil. Probably not the best but I keep a bottle from my last service and use it as cutting oil in my oil squirter can. Screwfix also used to do a big box of mixed drill...

already fitted mate as dash is all out for the recolour. I prepped dash and then added binder and what I’d call a scrub coat which is colour coat by hand.

Also mate (you may already know), if you plan to use dicky seats, their belt anchors are in rear quarter. There’s a panel fold spot weld join to the right of c pillar bottom, and then 105mm to the right of c pillar is a reinforcement plate. Rear quarter panel can rot between this and also at...

Good to see you back on it. Boot floors are easy mate honestly. Just get either a good spot weld drill bit or a step one.

Oh and congrats on house!!

I was only looking at these the other day. I used to have a twinscroll legacy import. One of most capable cars I’ve ever had. I’m bored with my daily and starmer has literally taken the benefit of me running it so will probably go private car. They look far less asbo in white - my legacy was WR...

Also, unless your particularly unlucky, it will mostly be body rust not chassis rust. YRM, Froggats easy on panels make replacements for most things. I use yrm for all my stuff now

None of you are warning the man off! You’re encouraging him to get welders, workshops and start chucking all his time and money at it 😂. OP - If you want the body done properly, its a long old journey. I enjoy restoring them back make sure it’s something you actually want/enjoy doing before...

Call me daft but I don’t understand how it stops it curling. Do the screws go through the foam and into harder material underneath? I ordered it in grey and it’s pretty close to the new grey which is a winner!!

If you ever remove an engine. Tape up your loom. Otherwise it may dangle onto the prop when your winching and wrap itself up and rip 🤢 Resto moved to its final build place I hope.

Finished fixing dash at lunch. You can see it’s just started to curl. The repair kit is on it’s way and will be much easier without the dash in the car!

@Firebobby1 - you’re bahama beige aren’t you? Anyone else got a grey interior? I’ve just bought this just for the knob (hope 200 and 300 are same!) and the gaiter is really decent and original I think.

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Got one for not mental money. People are starting to charge a lot for spares. Everything is so tidy with the dash that I can’t be doing with having a broken switch surround

Before I spend silly money on one, does anyone have one of these knocking about please?

Small repair at lunch. The metal bracket that holds the stereo and centre vent panel had snapped off from the dash. I managed to bolt in a bit of metal so that it could be held in place again. Eliminating potential rattles. The plastic here explodes if you look at it wrong. So brittle.

Not much to report other than this vehicle has been excellent. It’s such motivation to finish my restoration as I really enjoy driving this. Only been driving my pickup when I’ve had to and I nearly put myself through the windscreen braking 😂. My goal is to have a lovely daily out of the...

Repair finished and seat section ready for spraying

The dash has been ontop of the disco. It’s been slowly turning disgusting. It will obviously need cleaning painting for the new colour scheme. Whilst cleaning earlier I noticed an issue! Seems the yanks didn’t have the light adjuster switch we did. So I can’t use the right hand one 🤦‍♂️