Alvis TA-14 restoration story so far
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:50 pm
Hello All,
A lot of you will have seen this before, so apologies, but I've started moving on this again & would like to post updates here as I go.
My girlfriend's step-father gave me this car in this condition in 2005.
He had done an amount of work on it when he bought it in the mid 80s. some of the ash frame had been replaced and all the old paint had been stripped off and the aluminium protected with primer.
Nothing had been done with anything else though. the car had been laid up in about 1986 by him, but not been used regularly ince 1965. Apparently it was running before it was parked up.
I started by stripping it bare down to the chassis.
There was a small amount of obvious cutting and welding to be done towards the rear off side
The next idea was to get it dipped and coated by Surface Processing in Dudley. That way, the internal sections of chassis would be as clean and protected as teh external. The old Mondeo was elected as transport for both round trips Dundee to Dudley and performed admirably!
The coating people damaged two of the outriggers. It looked like they used them to lift the chassis with. both were bent significantly. a small discount was offered, but I'd rather have got it back in the same condition I had left it off!!!
Once I got it back in the garage, the stripping had revealed a couple of thin areas that needed patching.
A lot of you will have seen this before, so apologies, but I've started moving on this again & would like to post updates here as I go.
My girlfriend's step-father gave me this car in this condition in 2005.
He had done an amount of work on it when he bought it in the mid 80s. some of the ash frame had been replaced and all the old paint had been stripped off and the aluminium protected with primer.
Nothing had been done with anything else though. the car had been laid up in about 1986 by him, but not been used regularly ince 1965. Apparently it was running before it was parked up.
I started by stripping it bare down to the chassis.
There was a small amount of obvious cutting and welding to be done towards the rear off side
The next idea was to get it dipped and coated by Surface Processing in Dudley. That way, the internal sections of chassis would be as clean and protected as teh external. The old Mondeo was elected as transport for both round trips Dundee to Dudley and performed admirably!
The coating people damaged two of the outriggers. It looked like they used them to lift the chassis with. both were bent significantly. a small discount was offered, but I'd rather have got it back in the same condition I had left it off!!!
Once I got it back in the garage, the stripping had revealed a couple of thin areas that needed patching.