Edd's Talbot Samba Thread

[SambaS]

At some point, a perfectly good car is gonna have to lay down it's life to provide the parts to tidy up the red one!

 

I'm aiming to break a LHD one.

 

Currently formulating a repair strategy for the white one.

 

Can be done. Will be done.

[SambaS]

Collected these on Monday

 

[SambaS]

 

There is a moderate amount of welding to do.

 

Cooling system has void itself while we were riding it about a few months ago. It needs a roof handle, rear window, a service and an MOT!

[406V6]

The Horizon looks really smart in the pic. What's its story ?

[twosmoke300]

I thought you had bought a transit !

[SambaS]

Ex BenjyP ex C Hill of Simca club fame. Just hit 40,000 miles on drive home!

 

Last Horizon Ultra left we think. Has French style side graphics. UK Ultras didn't have these.

[SambaS]

Mega looking forward to starting this!

 

 

[SambaS]

This cheered me up though, the original compressor for spare tyre, which is always meant to be stowed deflated!

 

 

Never seen one before! Always seem to be lost. Cant fault the nice originality of the car

[SambaS]

Making some progress. As usual there was more than meets the eye. Inner wheel housing structure had some rot to address.

 

Got most of the sections made up now. Cleaned up all the areas, tonight started putting in new metal.

 

 

 

 

Two half days on it so far.

 

Below pictures are the beginnings of the turret and turret top. Lots of measurements taken and will be tacked with suspension fitted before final welding commences. Best welding will have to come out here, due to the stresses driving will put on the area.

 

 

 

I'm also going to weld in some metal triangles between the new turret sides and the inner quarter panels. There was no metal there before, just seam sealer and paint. I dont even think it came out the factory with metal there.

[SambaS]

 

Finally able to crack back on with this. Lots of weld going into this turret piece. Adding some triangle braces in too. Starting to come together now.

[SambaS]

Finally finished the turret tops. Jack was too hung over most weekends for us to be able to do any work - it's at his parents house at the minute!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SambaS]

Inner wheel housing/ sill area done using a bit already cut for Alpine but not used.

 

 

 

 

[SambaS]

Repair to OSR lower quarter/ wheel arch

 

 

 

 

[SambaS]

Now dealing with floor repairs (thinking these were the last)

 

 

 

While underneath I noticed a very crumbly inner wing. Fell apart in my hands. bugger.

 

 

So off with the front wing and choppy chop.

 

 

 

This bit in the engine bay now accessible, i was gonna fill it for now. Jack want this car on the road ASAP!

 

May as well be done right. Off it came

 

 

Hard to remember all the new parts Jack has bought this car, but off the top of head...

 

Side light bulbs

Side light bulb holders

Glue to hold headlamp lens in

1 new radiator

Coolant and coolant flush

thermostat

water pump

 

Spark plugs

HT leads

Distributor cap

Rotor arm

Coil

Ignition module

alternator

Starter motor

battery

battery cables

 

Front pads

Front disks

Front brake flexi hoses

Rear shoes

Rear brake cylinders

rear wheel bearings

1x tyre

 

Gearknob

rear view mirror

Windscreen wipers

Wiper arm attachment

rear window

Fitted Talbot floor mats

new roof handle

 

Track rod ends

bottom arms

anti roll bar bushes (waiting to find some still)

various fixers

 

New head unit

New front speakers

Sub

Wiring kit

 

Welding gas

Weld through primer

White paint

Waxoil

Hammerite Smooth Paint

 

And I've learned some from him too, because normally if it works i leave well alone but look inside this water pump, and thermostat housing!!!

 

 

 

Non existent (and hard to find) anti roll bar bushes:

 

 

New rear window (proving hard to work out how to fit this)

 

[tinribs]

I miss my Samba, was my first car. Hateful little shit at the time due to all sorts of reliability problems. And rust. Plenty of rust.

I had my first proper shag in it

I learned so much from it, I went from 0-100 on car knowledge in the time I had it. I really hope you can find the bits needed to keep it alive.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Only 100? We're all up to at least one hundred and eleventy on motorknowledge here.

[SambaS]

 

This has been attached and fully welded in.

 

 

 

 

 

Welding finished.

 

Jack is painting floor tomorrow and inner wing. Then I will sort the brakes and book an MOT.

[Skizzer]

Much respect.

[vulgalour]

Indeed, it's good to see you rescuing yet another old Talbot.  Tell me, what PCD are those alloys?  Not that I'll find a set, but I bet they'd look sweet on my little Renault (and I've probably said/asked this before).

[Largactil]

Indeed, it's good to see you rescuing yet another old Talbot.  Tell me, what PCD are those alloys?  Not that I'll find a set, but I bet they'd look sweet on my little Renault (and I've probably said/asked this before).

 

3 x 115 PCD = Samba / LNA/ 104

[SambaS]

Almost...

 

En route to pre-booked MOT last night

 

[SambaS]

001 Service brake: efficiency below requirements,

002 Front Brakes imbalanced,

003 OSF Brake Little or no effort,

004 NSF brake Binding,

005 Rear brake recording Little or no effort (both),

006 Brake hose twisted,

007 Brake hose excessively deteriorated (both front),

008 Brake Pipe Excessively Corroded (Center Rear),

009 NSF brake pad below 1.5mm,

010, Anti Roll bar Synthetic bush Deteriorated,

011 headlamp insecure OSF,

012 body has Sharp Edge Caused by Damage (OSF bumper),

 

ADVISORY 013 most of these items shown are dangerous

 

All parts in post or waiting to be fitted, just need to pick up the brake pipe and unions and new flaring tool!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

For some reason, Sambas look better than I remember. All of the above is small fry as well, compared to reconstructing a crusty turret. Almost congratulations.

[SambaS]

[SambaS]

First MOT in 15 years.

[oldcars]

Some welding gone into that. Nice soft top just in time for winter

[MarvinsMom]

congrats at another epic restoration/weldathon and successful MOT to an unloved and unfancied once common car.

 

proper autoshite-ing!

[SambaS]

The Style and white Cabriolet both went through MOTs last month, my winter project is the red Cabriolet:

[SambaS]

Job Card is:

 

Engine Mount

Exhaust Blowing

CV Gaiters

Driver Seat Loose

Clutch Pedal Loose

Electric Windows Inoperative

Wing Mirrors Missing

3 Slow Punctures

Tracking

Drivers Door Card Catching Door Frame

[Burnside]

Belated congrats with the Mot on the White Samba Cabriolet and the Style. Great turnaround on the Cabriolet.

 

Looking forward to seeing your progress on the Red Cabriolet.  Judging by how quickly you turned the White Samba round I reckon you have this done in a day!