356 B T6 Restoration

[neil blaber]

little more progress saturday...

obviously needs the gap welding up but its coming on a treat, I'm well happy with the progress so far!...

[Phil Planck]

Love the clamp through the rusty hole method. Great thread and work Neil.

[neil blaber]

thanks phil, its nice to add some humour lol

[neil blaber]

started to do the rear chassis closing panel

i do have the re-inforcer to make that fits in between the two chassis rails halves, and the bottom return is now welded on fully, but its coming on...

[neil blaber]

the closing panel is almost finished now, its not exactly the same as original but I'm pretty sure its stronger than it was!
(the rail is all 1.6mm)

i have a little piece on the bottom return and a small piece on the top return to weld in. i have to make up some of those threaded inserts that the torsion cover bolt to, then weld in the inner brace in and paint inside before finally welding the halves together...

[Andrew Serdich]

Keep the updates coming Neil. She's coming along wonderfully. Thoroughly enjoying this thread and watching your magnificent work!

[neil blaber]

thanks for the support Andrew and everyone who's following along, kind words help a lot

[Phil Planck]

Neil
Same here. enjoying your project. Show us your bead roller.

[Greg Bryan]

Neil - great workmanship - you're really bringing this one back from the edge

[neil blaber]

thank you phil and greg

here is said bead roller...

nothing exciting by any means!
just don't expect to do any beads in one pass... if you do it small pressure increases each pass it will cope ok. having it powered would be a great help and hopefully by the time i am ready for the outer panels it will be.

another toy i have which is a great help is this...

shear, press brake, slip roll all in one. i would prefer a box pan folder and guillotine separate items but space is limited

[neil blaber]

made a little more progress, started to repair the r/h screen pillar so i can weld it to the hinge pillar

just before the return was bent all the way round

angle cut, ready for trimming to size

the return is bent all the way round now and the excess removed, i still have the outer skin to make up yet.

eagle eyed viewers will notice that the heater tubes don't match up from the hinge pillar to the screen vents but bear with me, all will be revealed later in the show lol

[Phil Planck]

Nice job on that channel. Thanks for posting your bead roller.

[neil blaber]

thank you phil

i have made a little progress

it may look like a previous picture but that is the second bulkhead panel, i just wasn't happy with the first so i made another.

the good news is this is welded in now but the centre brace is not. it is still held in with cleco's

[Andrew Serdich]

Neil, great work. I'm just wondering how much of the original car is going to be left, or is it just a template for you to build a new one around. LOL

Loving the progress and the thread!

Andy

[neil blaber]

thank you Andrew

by the looks of it not much will be left! but its another 356 on the road which can only be a good thing