The next few months were spent trying to find a suitable donor car, trawling eBay and classified ads. It had to be one that was beyond economical restoration but still had a usable shell.
Enter stage left our Donor Car!
Enter stage left our Donor Car!
The shell was the prepped by cutting out all of the
unwanted parts and everything we didn't need was sold
off to other Magnette owners to keep their cars on the road
unwanted parts and everything we didn't need was sold
off to other Magnette owners to keep their cars on the road
Front end gone...
...The shell
was split to make mating it to the chassis easier and we also discovered that the sills were rotten as well...
was split to make mating it to the chassis easier and we also discovered that the sills were rotten as well...
...Once the
shell was sorted it was time to start on the chassis which was in no way strong enough to deal with the sort of power I want to eventually put through this beast.
shell was sorted it was time to start on the chassis which was in no way strong enough to deal with the sort of power I want to eventually put through this beast.
The original shell had been hung by welding the inner sills to three small outriggers on each side which was too flimsy for my liking..
This was cured by making a couple of extra outriggers and then a new outer chassis rail. This one had to be exact as the idea is for it to be inside of the new sill panels. After hours of careful measuring I ended up with...
The new inner sill panel (c/o Shortens here in the UK, see links page) was then split into pieces and welded to the inside edge of the new chassis rail...
Continues in Part 2...
