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Ongoing builds
BDA:
When I emailed him when I read his series on the Hagerty Insurance website to encourage him not to loose heart and to finish his Europa, I mentioned about this forum and the yahoo group. He said he had joined but at the time his Europa project was dormant at the time. He said he would be back on when he was able to get back to his Europa.
Maybe he's back working on his Europa now and he can tell us about it!
If you're here, we'd love to hear from you, Rob!
4129R:
4688R was a body on to new chassis rebuild.
4259R will become a body off rebuild, as one of the seat belt mountings has sheared off in the centre of the chassis, and one long front suspension bolt (the one that slides into the footwell) is rusted solid in situ.
I am worried that heat necessary to try to get the suspension bolt out will actually set fire to the fibreglass.
Most of 4259R has been removed for the complete reno, so the body off is only a days work from starting to lift it off.
During the cold dark wet weather, my activities are restricted to rotary wire brush and painting all parts removed.
4259R had the anti-roll bar links cut off, no roll bar, the pins on the bottom of the shox cut off, and the right side bottom arms badly welded not bolted, so it must have been in a suspension re-arranging crash. Also both rear shocks were bent 20'-30' as was the rear trailing arm long bolt at the front by the petrol tanks.
Luckily the spares that came with the cars (4688R and 4259R) covered all missing and damaged suspension arms and roll bar with links.
I bought a metal guillotine to cut sheet metal accurately by hand, so I can cut plates to weld on to the top of the petrol tanks.
Roll on longer daylight and warmer weather.
Alex in Norfolk.
dakazman:
Good thread BDA, we also have members doing complete engine rebuilds. It’s a daily must read for me. USA and the Uk here also. At times it seems my build is stalled, sometimes overwhelming and then we read the obstacles others are dealing with and just want to help.
Again a shout out to Serge and his videos.
Lastly to all the hero members and so newbies who pass on great advice, Thank you!
Dakazman
Sherman Kaplan:
I'm not doing a body off rebuild, but I will be rebuilding all of the mechanical parts. I'm mostly retired so this is my retirement project. I'm hoping to learn a lot during the process. I'm not doing a body off because my car has only 24,000 miles and is very original, down to the original exide battery. I started from the outside in. I buffed the original paint, which came out nice and now I'm working on the interior. Next will be the front compartment/radiator, then the front suspension, rear suspension and then engine/gearbox. I have posted a few questions and a hello when I first started. I'll try and update my progress.
The car is a 1973 TCS
Sherman
BDA:
Hope to hear more from you and see some pictures, Sherman!
On a car that old and with that few miles, I would be concerned about the brakes, including the boosters. Make sure they are ok. Are you keeping your boosters? They can be rebuilt or retrofitted or even deleted with a M/C change.
Pay close attention to rust and all your rubber pieces. Good luck!
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