Some more images of the work to the inner wings and sills have come through. The bulkhead repair panel is in, as is the new battery box. The left hand inner wing had to be removed as it had a large hole in the rear where it meets the bulkhead. Unfortunately, the inner sill had also rotted away (see previous posts) but all of this has now been repaired.
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- Bulkhead repair panel fitted
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- Repair panel for inner wing being fabricated
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- Trial fit prior to welding
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- O/s inner sill repaired
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- Close up of inner sill
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- Battery tray fitted
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- Stripped to bare metal for paint
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- Stripped to bare metal for paint
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- Surfaces being prepared for paint
All of this is being prepared for paint this week now so things are starting to all go back together. All in all, there has been a huge amount of work completed that hadn’t been factored in at the beginning of the work. If you had suggested that the body would have to be lifted from the chassis and the inner wings removed for such repairs I might not have gone on with the project. However, all the accident damage previously has been repaired properly now and the body will sit straight with all mounts intact (rather than the bodge-it-and-leggit work done previously where one mount was cut and the body jacked up with spacers on the other side). Ultimately, the car has been apart now to its component parts so hopefully there shouldn’t be any more surprises lurking and the car is 100% metal.
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- Left hand inner sill before
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- Left hand inner sill after
These are pictures of the left hand inner sill before and after repair.
1959 Triumph TR3A 