The Restoration of Stanley a 72 Cross Over.

Been drilling holes and final bits of welding today before prep starts next week. One thing i wanted to do was trial fit the early badge, as much as i tried and looked at it i couldn't live with the bump on the new panel so i chopped it out!!!!!!! i cut a disc slightly larger than the hole placed it in from behind and then tacked a bit of 6mm rod to it, this gave me something to pull it into place as i welded it in very carefully and lots of quenching! a skim of filler and it looks much better and the badge will fit nicely.

 

sorry about all the pics! got carried away!

 

Lots of prepping at the moment, filling sanding filling sanding! you know the score!

 

great job on removing the front badge raised bit. I did it on mine and dispite quenching (and electrocuting my self a few times due to wet gloves) I got a lot more distortion that you did

that really is a top job mate

 

cheers Diddy, it went a little but not to bad, glad i done it though!

 

A mate of mine is painting the van, its interesting to see how much work go's into the prep! he's very patient and its looking good so far, if it looks nice now it should look great in shiny paint!!!

 

tidy work on the fron t panel owen nw
raise: :lightsabre:

 

O0 there's nothing better than seeing the paint going on O0 great work by the way

 

Yep very exciting! never thought the welding would end! cheers for the feedback

 

Day 4 !!!! still cleaning , filling sanding, cleaning, filling sanding!!! fortunately Tracy Stanleys owner had bare metalled most of the van so thats helped a great deal, so today cleaned up the roof and etch primed it, primed one side and block sanded it , getting there slow but sure!

 

Got the inside all cleaned up today, took 2 of us all day to prep and we are just giving it a coat of etch primer now at 19.45pm, i can see why resprays cost so much now!

 

all the bare metal is acid etched up

 

looks good why did ye not put a coat on the floor too owen nw :-X

 

we will do but last of all with normal primer as its not bare steel, then seam seal everything then top coats

 

Still priming and filling but needed to have a clean up so pushed it outside