As bought, the bonnet was hand painted, I stripper one half to see what was under the black gloss, good bonnet under

Then it was time to strip it down and see what I let myself in for
Off with the bonnet

Headlights and bumper off!

Damage could then bee seen on the front panel

A blow over with undercoat makes it clear.....

All wheel arches are like this what arches no problem though

Out with the back lights and off with the bumper........

Out with the seats and trim.........

Rear glass and hatch off.........

This view shows the now empty car.........

The new doors are stripped.
Before


After


Well thats it till I'm home again, all the seats and trim is now out, as is the glass............saved you boys a nice shot of the V8

Blimey mate
Them arches

I really do respect you for doing this
Its amazing to see someone putting there heart and sould into
re-building a fantastic car rather than sending it to the yard

Good on ya buddy and the best of luck with it

Cheers Buddy
Yeah the arches are bad, as are the rear of the outer sills, but they have rotted right, from the rear inwards,as they should with the heated sills.
The inner sills are totaly rot free as is th rest of the underside.
I wanted one as rotten as I could find that would restore, I found this one was ideal, It has a history, which is why it was kept by one owner and not scrapped, after 2 years of trying to buy it another guy took it on, but then moved to Island so sold it to me.
I bought the car from Doncaster and cost me more to recover than the car
But its what I wanted,I bought the silver one so I could remember how to put this one back together

Well done on the resto mate, Ive got a S1 myself and there getting rare. I have a fewbits and bobs kncking about if you need anyting specific.

Make sure you get down to the SD1 30th in gaydon as that would be a great place to get spares.

Thanks Tim
I like the S1 more than the S2, I'm after a back panel and a auto gear lever at the mo.
Will have to get a rear hatch at some point, will have to be a S1 one though, don't fancy a S2 tail gate sat on the back.

I like mine as bl intended them too, mines even got the original radio! Mk1 tailgates ar egetting rare nowadays but they do show up, as I said make your way down to gaydon and go see runcorn rovers spares as I know they have S1 bits.

If you do and you see my V8-S ERC 742T come over and say hi!

Thanks Tim but that link won't work for some reason.

My fault! try again!

Thanks tim

Some more of the strip down pics added

Mate your a braver man than me, I have my newlty refurbed alloys and new rear lights land today, so am getting all enthused now! Look forward to meeting some of you sunday!

Blimey! You must know what you are doing. Arches, what arches? are you going for whole new rear quarters or Arch replacements?
Good luck with it.

makes my car look new--how are you gonna do those wheelarches??