Project Rusty Triumphs in Scotland - Fixing things... - 16/03/25

[sloth]

[dozeydustman]

Wowsers. Been largely absent for a few days due to life and things. Excellent work chaps!

[Jikovron]

What a productive effort, it's almost got a production line feel of resurrection one after the other! Rust proofing like mad ftw! 

[GingerNuttz]

Turning out to be a straight old boat is the Acclaim.

 

Now just need to sand the whole bloody thing again with 800 grit, gonna have arms like Mike Tyson by the end of this 😂

[Shite Ron]

Wow! This thread is amazing, some fantastic work by GingerNuttz,absolutely brilliant and amazing progress.

If you fancy a free all expenses paid holiday in Wales next year, let me know.  I could have some of the fleet looking like new in a few weeks if you took up my offer, you may not get much time to get to the seaside though. 😀

There are some great threads and very skilled people on here, I really enjoy seeing the updates.

[Tickman]

Look at this rear wing, it looked like a jigsaw puzzle not long ago!

Stunning work

[320touring]

Fucking tremendous - looks absolutely Bob on!

 

Well played gents.

[egg]

I love how casually this went from 'partial blow over' to full repaint.

[vulgalour]

This is an extreme case of Project Creep.

[High Jetter]

I think this says it all, to much acclaim. Superb work.

 

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verb: acclaim; 3rd person present: acclaims; past tense: acclaimed; past participle: acclaimed; gerund or present participle: acclaiming

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[Mr Laurence]

Fantastic work both of you! I can’t get over how fast this seems to be progressing. Not even a few weeks that Acclaim was cornflakes. Can’t wait to see it painted

[NigeT]

Absolute feckin heroes. Definitely up there with Vulgalour's Princess of Doom in the alltime-winners-against-all-odds-and-logic-stakes. 

[rml2345]

Well done to both of you for persisting with this auld tub in the face of adversity, reality and all the other itys that have got in the way.

It's looking fucking ACE.

[loserone]

1 hour ago, Tickman said:

Look at this rear wing, it looked like a jigsaw puzzle not long ago!

I know it's only on the previous page, but here's a reminder

[dave j]

3 minutes ago, loserone said:

I know it's only on the previous page, but here's a reminder

Great comparison! Definately over and above what anyone else would have done with a rusty Acclaim. Keep up the good work! 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Fantastic work fellas. 

I've just been reading of the multiple close shaves with the reaper this little car had prior to your ownership. I reckon it was fate that you ended up buying it.

It definitely sounds like its got nine lives and it's certainly fallen on it's feet with you as it's owner. 

Heart-warming. 

[rickvw72]

Great work here. I did my apprenticeship working for a Triumph specialist, so I feel the pain (and flashbacks)

 

[greengartside]

Bloody hell guys! That’s a excellent effort, make no mistake. Looking forward to seeing the finished article!

[captain_70s]

This is the texbook case of a project spiralling out of control that your mother warned your about.

I think the first weekend pretty much went as planned and we were at the stage of discussing options for painting the wheels before I turned up a few days later with half a missing chassis leg. Once we really started wailing on it with hammers and chisels it became more obvious how much of the car was actually just underseal and it was downhill from there.

With the chassis legs repaired and a rear valance made the inner arches were found to not exist, this extended all the way up the outer edges of the strut towers up to the level of the parcel shelf. 

It'd have been one thing to know how rotten it was from the outset but it held up against the initial probing incredibly well, which is why I sacked off the Volvo which had crumbled to dust under stern looks.

 

Oh, I also turned up from work yesterday to find this MYSTERY BOX on the doorstep.

 

[davidfowler2000]

DO NO OPEN

[vulgalour]

He's gonna do a open!  Do no!  No open!

[somewhatfoolish]

[big_al_granvia]

just open it

[Dick Cheeseburger]

8 hours ago, captain_70s said:

This is the texbook case of a project spiralling out of control that your mother warned your about.

I think the first weekend pretty much went as planned and we were at the stage of discussing options for painting the wheels before I turned up a few days later with half a missing chassis leg. Once we really started wailing on it with hammers and chisels it became more obvious how much of the car was actually just underseal and it was downhill from there.

With the chassis legs repaired and a rear valance made the inner arches were found to not exist, this extended all the way up the outer edges of the strut towers up to the level of the parcel shelf. 

It'd have been one thing to know how rotten it was from the outset but it held up against the initial probing incredibly well, which is why I sacked off the Volvo which had crumbled to dust under stern looks.

 

Oh, I also turned up from work yesterday to find this MYSTERY BOX on the doorstep.

 

Probably not a great idea to share your actual name on a public forum chap.

 

[Niffleman]

Captain 70s, perhaps you could also consider a v40 or s40 from around 2000?  Quite a lot around in your price range and pretty OK to work on.  Bits are available and not bad to drive. 

[Fumbler]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Probably not a great idea to share your actual name on a public forum chap.

 

He's feeling lucky so it's fine.

[eddyramrod]

Made my day....

[GBJ]

On 15/12/2020 at 21:33, Dick Longbridge said:

Probably not a great idea to share your actual name on a public forum chap.

 

Why?

[sdkrc]

I hope this mystery package is an urn with the ashes of your white 740

 

 

OR quality street

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, GBJ said:

Why?

Because fraudsters on teh internetz will steal his identity, travel back in time to shoot JFK before Oswald, hawk London Bridge to credulous merkins, sell GF 70s into white slavery and sign him up for a subscription to Reader's Digest Fiction Anthology of the Month.