1962 Vauxhall Victor FB - Making Panels

Hi Tony

Thanks for that. I'll be making a folder very shortly.

Here is my first attempt, don't laugh! It is a funny shape swage line though.

Gordon and I took a trip to Shrewsbury today, he had been offered an Early FB Victor for scrap money, its been in storage for the last 20 years, but it has the same colour interior and trim as his yellow car, and could also be a valuable source of bits and pieces along the way

So hitched up the trailer and set off

The storage turned out to be an old ammunition bunker on an MOD site, the guy has been storing cars there for 30 years, but now the MOD have decided to decommission them, (pull them done in laymans terms), so they have to be cleared, and its been getting damp in there for the last 10 years



Heres a shot from inside, apparently he has had up to 50 cars in , in the past, each of those bays could hold 3 cars deep by 2 cars wide, it was huge inside








So freed the brakes off and pushed her outside, unfortunately the registration number was transferred 20 years ago







Actaully quite solid underneath, but the interior looks like it might need some attention












So got her loaded and headed for home

Well Gordon picked the Victor up from SPL on Wednesday, it was becoming increasingly clear that they had no set date in mind for the new process.

The car has been outside in the rain, since it was dropped off, months ago, and looks to be suffering for it















and then it was taken to Pro Strip, they seem very keen to do the work and are 1/2 the price of SPL, so fingers crossed it works out this time






Meanwhile the threat of Redundancy has been lifted for me, the company I work for has been bought out by a bigger group, and it looks like there may be more opportunities in the future, so that is good, and I have to say a huge relief for me personally

It might mean I don't have as much time to work on Cars, but we will just have to wait and see, I guess you cant have it both ways

Pity to see the FB looking so sad. Hope it makes a full recovery at the new place. Good job news too

I shall never use SPL and will warn others off on the basis of your experience too.

i thought this bump would have shown the shell stripped


gutted

but good luck with work

If the Victor was mine I expect I'd be furious with SPL for returning it in worse condition than it was left with them and with them leaving the shell out in the elements with not even an open-sided car port affair to keep the worst of the rain off. The more I hear about SPL the more they seem like a cowboy outfit. I'm looking forward to hearing how things go with the new company and seeing things progress.

Finally, congratulations on the job front! Great to hear some good news in the current climate.

Good news on both the Victor and job front.

5 days ago Gordon removed the Victor from SPL, because they cannot provide any coating service for a full car, neither the E coating or the new Nickel Plating.
If they are advertising that they can I would read the small print, or ring trading standards

In the 'Tech Talk Q & A' in this month's PPC magazine a reader asks about getting a shell stripped - and they suggest, yes you guessed it - SPL . . .