Connor's Coronet 440

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Tue Jan 23, 07 8:15 pm

yep, me too. spent a week of work cos of it. It wasn't even my car I was welding either!

Woke up at 3 in the morning and had to get the wife to take me to hospital, strange sensation been driven to the hospital when you can't see anything.

brilliant way to top up the tan though

- obviously for H&S reasons this is not reccommended

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Jan 24, 07 8:11 pm

Well my dad found out about not wearing a mask but not as bad as you lot

honestly. Safety first. Anyway dads going to do most of the welding.

Guys I've got 2 hoods to run with the car a flat and an air grabber but I'm not sure witch one to use 'cause i like them both witch one do you think i should use both are going to be fixed up and painted.

So many choices to make. LOL

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Jan 25, 07 1:51 am

air grabber

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Jan 25, 07 6:19 am

Air grabber, definitely. A cool option, and I get the impression quite a rare one, but I'm sure those who know more about these things will correct me?

-Andy

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Thu Jan 25, 07 12:44 pm

its not an air grabber its a six pak hood scoop

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jan 28, 07 1:49 pm

Right we only had one day to work on it this weekend and we have managed to strip out the dash which was fiddly and also got the heater and blower out. Also managed to get out the brake pedal and foot brake mechanism and removed the wiper mechanism

Left in the interior is the window mechanisms and the glass, got to get the door off and the steering column and then the interior should be bare.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jan 28, 07 5:04 pm

Looking good, makesure you take photos of where things have comefrom so you remember how they go back.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jan 29, 07 3:59 am

There's nothing worse than that moment when you have thousands of parts piled on the floor and you realise you can't remember where they all came from!

Cannonball wrote:its not an air grabber its a six pak hood scoop

Ah well, I'd still go for the six pak hood then.

-Andy

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Feb 12, 07 7:48 pm

Here is the latest update on the Coronet. We spent the weekend stripping out the rest of the doors (once we had found the allen key). All the trim, interior,and glass is out so all we are left with now is the running gear. The rust is quite bad and the bottom of the doors have gone one door skin is irrepairable the deck lid has rust all along the edge and corners the front wings have several holes and the dottom by the door has gone. The drivers and passenger foot wells have gone and the rear passenger foot well has rusted out. the boot floor has gone the bottom of the inner wings have rusted away and the rear light panel has lots of holes in it. Oh and bothe rear quarterrs have rusted out at the bottoms so if we can get that repaired next weekend it should be in paint by March

I know you can get quarters and the floor parts but do they do door skins, deck lids and front wings new or is it down to patching it all in.
Dad is going to build a rotisseie to mount the car on. We had all the metal delivered today so I will post pics of how things go with that has anyone else done one. Thats it for this installment see you next time.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Feb 13, 07 1:16 pm

Well done Connor, keep up the good work!
Looks like your doing a hell of a job

Holly · Post by **Holly** » Tue Feb 13, 07 1:39 pm

Ditto that, once you're into cutting and patching it seems like a long job, but you get to see progress

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Feb 13, 07 2:46 pm

To be honest that's the only part that i want to do cleaning all the parts is a nightmare. There all pitted and rusted, must think of a solution apart from buying new ones.

Holly · Post by **Holly** » Tue Feb 13, 07 2:55 pm

Like I said earlier in this thread, get yourself the book I lonked to - it goes through how to repair even the most swiss-cheese of panels and how to make your own

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Feb 13, 07 2:57 pm

oh yea i remember that book

will make dad order it before he starts to make his own

Holly · Post by **Holly** » Tue Feb 13, 07 3:13 pm

If you read it you'll be able to do the fabricating