Hi,
Bought a 77 3500S a couple of days ago and trailered it to a friends farm. My friend happens to have a 4 post lift I can play with.
The DPO said that he resprayed the sill covers from brown to black. He also removed the brown vynal roof and sprayed that black. He also changed the boot mounted spare for a spare that lives inside the boot... except it doesnt as he has lost the spare wheel! From what I have read in the archived on this site I assume I am now the proud owner of a butchered huntsman?
OK, well, the sill covers are made of either plastic of fiberglass and are only held on by self tapping screws.
This cant be right surely? I mean they are the correct sort of profile and match up with the ends of the wings, but surely my car didnt roll out the factory with glass fibre outer sills!
On putting the car up on the 4 post lift, I noticed that the metal on the underside of the car about an inch and a half in from the outer sills is quite soft and would hole if i put enough pressure on. I didnt remove the sill covers as I didnt have time before going home to investigate further though.
Have checked the inner rear arches from within the boot and they are all solid. There is, however, a hole in the boot floor that needs to be patched (easy)
The PO had the car for just over 10 years. For the last 5 years it has sat outside in his yard. I am familiar with the rover V8 so no problems there. I got it to fire up pretty quickly although it does need a damn good service.
The reason I bought this P6 is I am planning to convert my 1978 MGB GT to V8 power over the next summer and I want the P6 to be a daily driver whilst I do this.
I am a university student, so I dont exactly have deep pockets to throw at this car.
I estimate I have around 9 months to get this car ready for an MOT.
Any thoughts?
Unfortunately the car is 100 miles away in wrexham at the moment in a friends barn so I cant nip out and look at it. However, I am moving down to bangor next saturday so I hope to go down each weekend and any free days I have and work on this car.
Finally, has anyone got a good cheap/free drivers side fibreglass wing going spare? Its the only wing that isnt metal.
Im planning on spraying the whole thing metalic red with aerosols anyway. Theres nothing wrong with aerosols for spray jobs... I can show you a highly tuned BGT sprayed with aerosols that looks very proffesional.
Any help / advice / hints / tips apriciated.
-JC.
Bought a 77 3500S a couple of days ago and trailered it to a friends farm. My friend happens to have a 4 post lift I can play with.
The DPO said that he resprayed the sill covers from brown to black. He also removed the brown vynal roof and sprayed that black. He also changed the boot mounted spare for a spare that lives inside the boot... except it doesnt as he has lost the spare wheel! From what I have read in the archived on this site I assume I am now the proud owner of a butchered huntsman?
OK, well, the sill covers are made of either plastic of fiberglass and are only held on by self tapping screws.
This cant be right surely? I mean they are the correct sort of profile and match up with the ends of the wings, but surely my car didnt roll out the factory with glass fibre outer sills!
On putting the car up on the 4 post lift, I noticed that the metal on the underside of the car about an inch and a half in from the outer sills is quite soft and would hole if i put enough pressure on. I didnt remove the sill covers as I didnt have time before going home to investigate further though.
Have checked the inner rear arches from within the boot and they are all solid. There is, however, a hole in the boot floor that needs to be patched (easy)
The PO had the car for just over 10 years. For the last 5 years it has sat outside in his yard. I am familiar with the rover V8 so no problems there. I got it to fire up pretty quickly although it does need a damn good service.
The reason I bought this P6 is I am planning to convert my 1978 MGB GT to V8 power over the next summer and I want the P6 to be a daily driver whilst I do this.
I am a university student, so I dont exactly have deep pockets to throw at this car.
I estimate I have around 9 months to get this car ready for an MOT.
Any thoughts?
Unfortunately the car is 100 miles away in wrexham at the moment in a friends barn so I cant nip out and look at it. However, I am moving down to bangor next saturday so I hope to go down each weekend and any free days I have and work on this car.
Finally, has anyone got a good cheap/free drivers side fibreglass wing going spare? Its the only wing that isnt metal.
Im planning on spraying the whole thing metalic red with aerosols anyway. Theres nothing wrong with aerosols for spray jobs... I can show you a highly tuned BGT sprayed with aerosols that looks very proffesional.
Any help / advice / hints / tips apriciated.
-JC.