Your Rover SD3 stories (mine has ended)

[DodgyBastard]

Bad news.

 

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[DodgyBastard]

Wrong arches.

 

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[eddyramrod]

Oh bollocks.  Both wrong?

[DodgyBastard]

Yeah, both the same.

 

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[DodgyBastard]

Some progress.

 

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[eddyramrod]

Would it be a good idea to check the sills at this point, to see if they are correct?

 

I'm looking at the link now, they appear to have both sides available, as well as outer sills and a piece they call "Lower rear corner" which I guess lives behind the bumper.  Let me know what we need....

[DodgyBastard]

New floors, bulkhead and inner wings wouldn't go amiss either.

 

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[eddyramrod]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit....

[BorniteIdentity]

Holy Christ.  I thought Alf892 was joking when he said he refused to weld one of these up once.

 

Great work FOAD.

[DodgyBastard]

I think the sills are correct.

 

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[Dick Cheeseburger]

That looks royally rogered.

However, it's outlived most of its counterparts by almost twenty years, so it just about deserves to remain a car, rather than Heinz packaging. Huge hero points to the sparkly stick wielders if this one is pulled off successfully. Watching with interest!

[DodgyBastard]

I think it's just really underseal holding it together.

 

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[DodgyBastard]

Struggling to find good metal to cut back to...

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

I think it's just really underseal holding it together.

 

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Ah many unhappy hours smacking that black stuff off with a hammer then being ready with a 50 year old brass fire extinguisher as my dad badges the shit out of these!

He could only gas weld so fires were small but often

[Dick Cheeseburger]

looks bad. Can stuff like that really be fixed?

 

Course it can. Standard annual MOT work in the 1970's. Rover simply continued the legacy for a couple more decades. At least with the rusty bits removed, those areas can no longer rust.

[oldcars]

Course it can. Standard annual MOT work in the 1970's. Rover simply continued the legacy for a couple more decades. At least with the rusty bits removed, those areas can no longer rust.

Glad to hear it, i would'nt know where to start. Much respect to foad for taking this on.

[DodgyBastard]

Flintstone style.

 

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[danthecapriman]

Shit! That's much worse than it looked.

FOAD haz plumz of steel for taking this on. Fair play!

 

looks bad. Can stuff like that really be fixed?

 

It looks bad, but it's only metal. It can be cut, bent and welded and it'll be perfectly fine afterwards. My Capri has had shit loads of metal cut away and replaced and it's fine. This Rover will be too when it's finished.

 

Can't wait to see how it goes.

[eddyramrod]

I'm having litter after litter of kittens here.  Bloody hell....

[danthecapriman]

I'm having litter after litter of kittens here.  Bloody hell....

Is this the rustiest car you've had?

 

It always looks bad when it's stripped back and the rotten metal falls out. It's on the way to recovery though, it looks better already now FOAD's started cutting it all back.

[eddyramrod]

Is this the rustiest car you've had?

I think that honour* goes to my 1983 Plymouth Gran Fury police car.  That had literally no floor in the back.  It was, like the Rover, a blind-buy from ebay.  Wouldn't you think I'd learn?

 

 

Fuckfuckfuckfuck.

[trigger]

Blimey that's bad! I'm glad it's being done and well done to FOAD for taking it on but being the miserable bugger that i am i can't help but wonder if it's worth it when I've seen better and less rusty ones cheaper?.

[DodgyBastard]

Blimey that's bad! I'm glad it's being done and well done to FOAD for taking it on but being the miserable bugger that i am i can't help but wonder if it's worth it when I've seen better and less rusty ones cheaper?.

I'd have to agree with you there. Surely it's easier to find a less fucked one than to waste hours patching this one back together.

 

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[eddyramrod]

 i can't help but wonder if it's worth it when I've seen better and less rusty ones cheaper?.

You have to start from where you are, not where you'd like to be.  This is where we're at, so talk of better-and-cheaper does precisely nothing positive.  In fact the ONLY thing it can possibly do is add to the gloom.

I'm already a fair bit deeper into this thing than I'd like to be.  FOAD has earned my limitless gratitude for even attempting to take it on, but there's a very fine line between carrying on and throwing more money at it that i don't have, and getting rid, thus writing-off a big chunk of money that I've already spent.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'm thinking Foad has a new job as the official Autoshite welder. Just a bit expensive getting cars to him.

[DodgyBastard]

Dustpan and brush at the ready...

 

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[DodgyBastard]

I haven't even cut half of the rust out yet...

 

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[3VOM]

Would it be a good idea to check the sills at this point, to see if they are correct present?

[D Spares & Tyres]

Its fucked.

 

Weigh it in.

 

I wouldn't put my kids in that.

 

You can't weld it, it will never be safe again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh wait, wrong thread...

 

Can't remember when I last saw one, be good to see this saved.

 

Maybe all autoshiters who can weld should have a go. FOAD can crack on for a bit then you can book an MoT by me and I'll put in a few hours.

 

Consider it penance for the ones I smashed up doing field bangers many moons ago..!

[eddyramrod]

3VOM: There's definitely a pair of sills present.  I know because I've seen them.  I paid for them, at the same time as the (incorrect) arches and from the same (defunct) source, hence my remark.  What's left of the sills on the car doesn't really matter as that's why I bought the new ones!