To our surprise the owner came in to the workshop a few months back asking about what sort of work we did and told us about the car and what it needed. Naturally we were very keen to take a look at it as we enjoy a nice involved restoration.
We arranged to go and see the car by which point it had come down for the rafters and was waiting for us to the a peak.
For it's age it didn't look to be in bad nick and all of the original Crayford boxing along the sills, heel board and A-pillars was still in place.
Once we had got it back to the workshop we removed the boxing prior to blasting to ensure every nook and cranny could be gotten to. Due to the rust we could see creeping in below the boxing and around the sills it was decided that replacing both floor pans front to rear + the cross member was the way to go so these section were left alone.
Despite our pre blasting thoughts the boot floor/seat base has lots of pin holes and some rather larger ones on both sides of the seat back so this may well be replaced with a heritage item modified to '60s spec.
The front panel was the first section to come off post blasting this will most likely donate its round corners and other early features to a new panel.
As could be seen on the picture of the bulkhead from inside both flitches were rather well holed as well so I began the somewhat long process of drilling out all of the spot welds to make way for new items in the new year.
