What Shall I Do? Opinions Please!
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:43 pm
Hello to all
I crashed my everyday +2 quite heavily and the insurance company wrote it off. By chance I had come across another +2 a bit before then and bought that. It is a 1967 car with only 26000 or so miles on it but has been left outside under tarpaulin for many years. It is pretty derelict, although the previous owner had the suspension shot blasted and reassembled. It has an unusual handbrake conversion whereby the handbrake is a "normal" lever on the floor. I managed to trace and speak to all the previous owners. It hardly got driven because it had several annoying problems like a burnt valve and non working windows. Under the car things look very straight indeed and the car is very original. I havent had the engine running yet although the previous owner says that it goes fine. (right!)
It looks like the chassis is very good although it is the original chassis. What are the chances of the chassis being OK? The turrets look great.
I am desperate to get the car back on the road. My wife is desperate to get the remains of the first car and the derelict car out of the garden. I cannot decide if I need to take the body off or not in order to check the chassis and renew the body mountings and have a general look around. I am also worried about the brake lines. In fact I do not like the braking setup on plus 2s having had grief with my previous one. I wonder if I could fit a modern racing pedal box of the type that they have in the Demon tweeks catalog?
The paint is coming off everywhere. It is the original paint though. I intend to strip it with a water based stripper and then paint it with the help of my cousin who has a shotblasting and painting business. I have read the threads on painting and stripping.
I have started to take pictures of the car and will post them up soon to start (another) online journal of the up and coming saga!
Many thanks for any opinion offered.
Berni
I crashed my everyday +2 quite heavily and the insurance company wrote it off. By chance I had come across another +2 a bit before then and bought that. It is a 1967 car with only 26000 or so miles on it but has been left outside under tarpaulin for many years. It is pretty derelict, although the previous owner had the suspension shot blasted and reassembled. It has an unusual handbrake conversion whereby the handbrake is a "normal" lever on the floor. I managed to trace and speak to all the previous owners. It hardly got driven because it had several annoying problems like a burnt valve and non working windows. Under the car things look very straight indeed and the car is very original. I havent had the engine running yet although the previous owner says that it goes fine. (right!)
It looks like the chassis is very good although it is the original chassis. What are the chances of the chassis being OK? The turrets look great.
I am desperate to get the car back on the road. My wife is desperate to get the remains of the first car and the derelict car out of the garden. I cannot decide if I need to take the body off or not in order to check the chassis and renew the body mountings and have a general look around. I am also worried about the brake lines. In fact I do not like the braking setup on plus 2s having had grief with my previous one. I wonder if I could fit a modern racing pedal box of the type that they have in the Demon tweeks catalog?
The paint is coming off everywhere. It is the original paint though. I intend to strip it with a water based stripper and then paint it with the help of my cousin who has a shotblasting and painting business. I have read the threads on painting and stripping.
I have started to take pictures of the car and will post them up soon to start (another) online journal of the up and coming saga!
Many thanks for any opinion offered.
Berni