Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

yup at the age of 12 i used a red hot airfix hand drill with a arrow head shape to bore into my nail .it goes in a long way before dust comes out . i got it done then passed out ...but proudly.

The boot gutter repair looks good. That's one job I couldn't do on my Anglia, plus the curve goes in two directions to make it extra difficult.

Johnny, it's easy with a shrinker/stretcher.

James....hhhhmmmm think I'll still give that a miss. The entire nail is completely black now with a swollen finger so probably too late for trying to save the nail. Pain has subsided to a dull ache so not so bad now, just hurts if I knock it against anything.

Just another thing to endure while carrying on

Yes, it’s probably too late now. If you’d relieved the pressure shortly after doing it you’d have been astonished at how quickly the pain subsided.

The moment you get through the nail and relieve the pressure is what I imagine a religious experience would be like if I believed in religion. Also funny how far blood spurts through a 3mm hole.

Hmmm, had I known about the hot paperclip trick I 'might' have been brave enough to try it last night. It's going to cause me problems when it comes to the sanding stages

Finger looks like this now;



Funny, the nail already feels like it's almost detached and as Norman says, I've caught it on lots of things already

This was the offensive offending item that fell on it;



Anyway......ruined fingers aside, back to car stuff.

New steel all welded in now, braze did mostly grind off and only caused a few spits in the welds. Had to chase a few holes as the metal is very thin.



And dressed back. The bulkhead is never going to win any beauty competitions, but with some stonechip on the lower sections it will hopefully look tidy.



Rusty bits get a dose of Hydrate 80 on them.



and then on to the other side of the boot gutter. Boot floor also got a coat of Hydrate 80.

This brings back a memory I'll never forget. It was my first ride ever in an ambulance! Oh, not because my nail was the issue, no....
it was from my mom passing out and hitting her head on the wall when she hit the floor right there in the GP's office as I showed her how he'd punched/poked a small hole in my nail after I'd presumably hit it with a hammer (can't remember what I did exactly)...

Hmmm....mine is lovely & black now, but it mostly no longer hurts - still quite swollen though.

I put a shout out for a new bootlid lamp on facebook, and it turned out a friend 3 streets away had one - result.
Picked it up but unfortunately it's in poor shape so may not be usable. It's currently sitting in a phosphoric acid bath so I'll see what it looks like in a day or so.



not much to show for todays progress as I was doing the rest of the boot gutter repairs. I was half way through welding in the new metal when I thought it was not good enough as the lip was too small. So it all had to come out again - which was a bit of a chore - proves my welds are good though!

Cut and folded/stretched a new peice of metal - with the right size fold on it! and welded it all in. Coated with Hydrate 80 so it will be ready for primer soon.



Then I welded in the new metal by the fuel tank outlet and fitted the rivnuts for the cover plate, all fitted here.



91.5 hours.

Thanks Norman, finger is not too bad unless I knock it. I'm new to Hydrate but it seems good.