An Audi, and a Vauxhall

Its a shame I cut up a Firenza about 10yrs ago better than that which would have yielded some nice repair panels, couldnt give the shell away at the time!

Its a shame now I have the space to store stuff big stuff like shells they dont come up often, makes me cringe when I think what ive chopped up over the years!

I've done a bit more on this now, first job was to remove the nearside rear wheelarch.



I then removed the last remaining part of the inner sill.



This didn't take as long as I thought it might - there are three short welds holding it to the body, the centre one was only connected to one side of the join and the other two came away with a bit of wiggling the panel forwards and backwards. It's thin steel, there is no paint on the inside and a lump of sealant to cover it all up.

Yesterday's job was to remove the rest of the bottom of the quarter panel to roughly where the replacement will be joined on.



Next, I'll scrape all that surface rust back and, as long as there's nothing that needs to be replaced on the inner structure, give it a good coat of Hydrate 80 while I have access. After that, I'll trim the replacement quarter panel so that I can clamp it in place to use as a reference to rebuild the edge of the inner wheelarch and the rest of the stuff it joins to.

Ouch - Then again - I opened the main workshop door halfway last week to conserve heat whilst I quickly unloaded something from the car to the workshop - turned around and promptly boshed my head on the half open door   

Oh, and I got a new clear plastic cover for my auto-darkening welding helmet. It's amazing how much easier it is to see what I'm working on now.

Nice work on the car, hope the head recovers!

More has happened on this recently. I've removed the back panel and replaced the bottom half of it, so I can test-fit the outer back panel and the two quarters to see how they line up against the tailgate.



I've also removed the light boxes, had them blasted and repaired the holes



Now I'm just trying to summon up the courage to start welding the quarter panels on. There's no going back after this - I doubt I'll find more quarters if I mess this up. But I need to crack on with it as it's taking too long.

Nervous times but it wont do its self so as you say double check then crack on - hope it all goes well 

slowly slowly catchy monkey!