1995 Rover 420 gsi tourer

Had a very productive day.

Simon, the previous owner has supplied me with all the parts needed to fix it! That includes a chopped section from the front of a donor car.

I spent the day pulling out the remainder of the rearward crushing, and then picking the slam panel off the donor car and the bent one off my car and then checking the alignment.



Had to unbolt the top and front of the front wings to get to some of the spot welds. Not difficult though.



Then with the old slam panel off i could do the final shaping of the support mounts.



Balanced the new slam panel on and put the wings back in place.



Simon gave/lent me a standard mk2 bonnet (no 2.0 gsi bulge) so i trial fitted that to make sure the new slam panel worked with the bonnet latch. All works fine. So now i just need to prep the panel and weld it on.



Also check out the history file. Proper old school wallet think with labelled front. Then inside pretty much every MOT, loads of handwritten invoices and service notes. Fantastic!

Yeah he's a top bloke and its a shame hes selling off all his Rover stuff as he knows loads and loads of stuff about them.

My parents had a blue 420GSi saloon.
Why didn't the previous owner Simon not repair the car?
The Estate does look very nice.

He got fed up of the rover 200/400 owners club and kind of fell out of love with rovers I think

Made serious progress today. I spent ages prepping the slam panel. I de-rusted the underside, painted it in Hydrate 80, then bonda zinc primer, then etch primer. Left it on the radiator to dry.



Then painted the underside in metallic green. Only doing the underside as all the top will be done properly by the bodyshop. The underside will be difficult to get to once it is welded in, hence me doing it now. I also did the rear side of the bonnent latch stiffener and the front bumper mounts.



Then i welded the slam panel to the car. I have very little shielding gas left, so i had to avoid the blustery winds!







Ground all the welds back and then gave it a dusting of etch primer to give it at least a little protection.



Also painted the inner edge of the nearside front wing, as it had been rubbed down to bare metal but not actually painted.

Another great Video Jim

Love the new catch phrase "Woops"

Yeah don’t tempt me. I’ve accidentally drunk bid on another car already. Ends tonight. I actually hope I get outbid.

Yeah, I totally avoid eBay if I've had a beverage or 2. And Yahoo auctions, because apparently I can still read Japanese well enough when half cut.