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Last Edit: Mar 6, 2018 21:17:56 GMT by Deleted
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This is going to be worth following not only because of the rarity of the car, the chance to watch a work of art being created.
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plumped my cushion and put the kettle on......
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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top right hand corner in address bar click the star it turns blue press done its then in your bookmarks
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oh, what a beauty....
very booked in
JP
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I know its spelled Norman Luxury Yacht, but its pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove!
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Apr 12, 2017 21:07:02 GMT
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Commenced the structural repairs on the offside  Removed the sill section & tidied the door pillar up (note the brace frame to temporary hold the shell structure in place)  Patterned up for the lower section of the bulkhead return prior to cutting it out  Floor pan repair & body mounting bracket welded in  Bulkhead return repair panel in the making / trial fit More to follow tomorrow |
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this will be very fun to watch!
great work so far
JP
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I know its spelled Norman Luxury Yacht, but its pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove!
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Apr 13, 2017 21:27:16 GMT
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Last Edit: Apr 13, 2017 21:49:39 GMT by Deleted
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MK2VR6
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Mk2 Golf GTi 90 Spec
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Apr 13, 2017 21:34:38 GMT
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What an amazing car and resto. Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked.
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Apr 14, 2017 10:43:30 GMT
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its a fine looking car in profile. i'm still yet to be sold on the "headlights on the grill" look of this period, not just the jowett mind you look forward to the ongoing restoration  what was the brief from the owner, is it just a structural rebuild keeping all the racing patina ? |
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Last Edit: Apr 14, 2017 10:43:52 GMT by darrenh
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Apr 14, 2017 10:49:48 GMT
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its a fine looking car in profile. i'm still yet to be sold on the "headlights on the grill" look of this period, not just the jowett mind you look forward to the ongoing restoration what was the brief from the owner, is it just a structural rebuild keeping all the racing patina ? No it's a full body & paint restoration back to original road specification - The owner is 70 this year and his days of rallies / races are long over |
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Apr 14, 2017 20:28:00 GMT
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Last Edit: Apr 14, 2017 21:06:45 GMT by Deleted
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vulgalour
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Club RR Member Number: 146
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Apr 14, 2017 20:42:24 GMT
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It's amazing how fast and how confidently you get on with these daunting jobs.
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Apr 14, 2017 21:17:34 GMT
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It's amazing how fast and how confidently you get on with these daunting jobs. I put it down to the fact that as an apprentice my 'Very Thorough' old school workshop manager gave you one chance to get it right - get it wrong and you literally got your backside kicked - he was however a very patient man and did not mind if you listened and took your time - taught me every trick that he knew and every one of them was a good one |
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Apr 17, 2017 22:10:02 GMT
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Latest progress - lots of adjustments / fettling in order to align the door aperture and to fit the lower door hinge  A post repair section removed / reworked / refitted several times over - minor adjustments made on each occasion  Likewise for the door   Until I got to the point that the bottom door hinge could be fitted - this fits under the bottom of the A post repair section which has to be drilled - these are hand built cars and nothing comes the correct shape /pre drilled etc - it all has to be made to fit  Rear shroud to the lower sections is fatigued with splits & corrosion and will have a new section formed & welded in  Quite a few shims / packers had to be placed in order to get to this point    So tomorrow I can commence the task of taking the A post repair back off along with the rear shroud and start welding the sill insitu along with the rear section to the floor braces  Still some fettling on the front aperture against the A post in order for the correct door gapping to be achieved - but this is me being picky - the apertures were never this good when the cars left the factory new. |
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Last Edit: Apr 17, 2017 22:10:39 GMT by Deleted
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Apr 18, 2017 10:21:41 GMT
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i would have given a left nut to learn these kind of skills at the correct impressionable age to make a living from it. i don't want to sound insulting and say its a generation thing, but you know what i mean. these kind of hand working skills are now considered "historic", "retro" "classic" whatever you want to call it, having a bit of a renaissance right now. 1980s/1990s (in my experience of having aspirations in the motor industry) were a bit of a wasteland. vocational routes in were non existent unless you happened to live in a small town/ village with a "coachworks" with some provenance. or wanted a career changing oil on vauxhall cavaliers. educational routes in were also vaporising, tail end of crappy city and guilds courses (not that i'm saying that would be credible way in either) metal work, woodwork disappeared at schools in favour of craft and technology. so instead of taking dad an ashtray home that you beat out of copper sheet on a sandbag, you told him about how you managed to get an atari ST to badly reproduce a kitchen table on a 4 foot tall pen plotter rambling now, but in short, just trying to say how much we appreciate living it vicariously  |
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Apr 18, 2017 21:19:26 GMT
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i would have given a left nut to learn these kind of skills at the correct impressionable age to make a living from it. i don't want to sound insulting and say its a generation thing, but you know what i mean. these kind of hand working skills are now considered "historic", "retro" "classic" whatever you want to call it, having a bit of a renaissance right now. 1980s/1990s (in my experience of having aspirations in the motor industry) were a bit of a wasteland. vocational routes in were non existent unless you happened to live in a small town/ village with a "coachworks" with some provenance. or wanted a career changing oil on vauxhall cavaliers. educational routes in were also vaporising, tail end of crappy city and guilds courses (not that i'm saying that would be credible way in either) metal work, woodwork disappeared at schools in favour of craft and technology. so instead of taking dad an ashtray home that you beat out of copper sheet on a sandbag, you told him about how you managed to get an atari ST to badly reproduce a kitchen table on a 4 foot tall pen plotter rambling now, but in short, just trying to say how much we appreciate living it vicariously The skill range just is not there any more - I could take a lot more work on if I so wished - but would then have to employ staff and trying to find the right people with the right skills and more importantly the right attitude is next to impossible and for some reason there is a generation and half out there of which 50% thinks that everything can done with a laptop and a phone app and the other 50% think that world owes them a living for doing nothing ok I am exaggerating but you know what I mean - more ranting than rambling now but the older you get the worse you get (now you know why I am branded the 'Grumpy Northener') |
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Last Edit: Apr 18, 2017 21:20:59 GMT by Deleted
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what was the brief from the owner, is it just a structural rebuild keeping all the racing patina ?
