This is the engine bay


Next we painted the interior silver, as black would be impractical being so dark behind the dash...and it looks heaps cool !

Looking awesome as always.
 
How did you get on with the Dakar car?
 
Cheers
 
Matt 

Hi Matt,
I was going to post up some pics of the Dakar car but it was almost 1am ....I'll put them up soon ;)

No rest for the wicked!

Here is a couple of final pics of the Dakar car panels i repaired..

These panels had pieces missing, prolly still in Nirobi or Angola somewhere so i had to re fabricate and strengthen as well as make the inner arches due to   many 1000s of miles being sand blasted !
 
 
 The front panel was in 3x pieces with the return mounting lip obliterated ! 

 

Its been flatout here with the Black Escort being re-assembled .. finding bolts and screws takes time ! While my friend was doing that i was doing my Angula, making mould of the bonnet then making a bonnet with reinforcements for the hinges and locks.
This is the fibreglass bonnet , i hosed off the mould release agent

The doors after a date with grit blaster...Manky looking door

The driver door was worst off with some major rust and dents to tackle.


It came up quite good considering how bad it was..

Once the doors were done i moved into the body, decided to fit a fuel/gas filler behind the number plate so i chopped a hole in and boxed it up,



This is the fibreglass bonnet, i used Escort cross brace supports also in f/glass as the anglia brace is garbage !

NOW the good bit we all waiting for....
                  PAINTING OF THE ANGLIA





 

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 The 1st time in 3yrs the Anglia has touched Terra Firma !

 Carefully lowering it off the rotissery