Body repair the AA way!
- Landy Mann
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Body repair the AA way!
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Always check that your not about to reverse over your tool box before moving the car...
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Always check that your not about to reverse over your tool box before moving the car...
200tdi Land Rover Defender CSW http://www.practicallyclassics.co.uk/vi ... =12&t=1801
Re: Body repair the AA way!
Oh please. Surely anyone knows that newspaper is a far more suitable material for repairs to structural areas of motor vehicles?
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: Body repair the AA way!
I bet that car didn't survive for long.
It was probably considered quite acceptable to use gobs of filler and wire in those days. I've got a 1959 edition of a magazine with a similar piece.
Cheers,
It was probably considered quite acceptable to use gobs of filler and wire in those days. I've got a 1959 edition of a magazine with a similar piece.
Cheers,
Brett Nicholson
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1965 Morris Mini Traveller - Trixie
1966 Austin Mini Super-Deluxe - Audrey
1969 Morris Mini Van - Desert Assault Van
1971 Morris Moke - Mopoke
1974 VW Super Beetle - Olive
2009 Nissan Pathfinder
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Re: Body repair the AA way!
I can remember Car Mechanics running an article on how to repair a chassis rail using glass fibre.
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Re: Body repair the AA way!
Sorry, I don't get it... what's the problem with using chicken wire and filler?
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Re: Body repair the AA way!
Funny thing is that really was the way that things were done back then, it wasn't thought of being "wrong".
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Well being shocked by it must show my youth!
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Always check that your not about to reverse over your tool box before moving the car...
200tdi Land Rover Defender CSW http://www.practicallyclassics.co.uk/vi ... =12&t=1801
Always check that your not about to reverse over your tool box before moving the car...
200tdi Land Rover Defender CSW http://www.practicallyclassics.co.uk/vi ... =12&t=1801
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Re: Body repair the AA way!
WTF??!! The chicken wire and filler I can just about live with but come on, they can't be serious about a chassis!suffolkpete wrote:I can remember Car Mechanics running an article on how to repair a chassis rail using glass fibre.
Re: Body repair the AA way!
Just behind and inboard of that chicken wire bodge on the MK2 in the AA book is the front anchor point for the car's rear spring, and there's a lot of energy in a semi-elliptic that's used as a quarter elliptic with two effective fulcrum points so as far as "chassis" bodgery goes, the sills on that are probably more significant than - say - the outriggers on a Herald or Scimitar chassis or the flexing bulkhead of an ADO16 that's started to soften a bit.
It wouldn't have been so bad if the AA had, for example, chosen a sill on an A60 or MK3 Cortina as those at least had box sections running along the floor and wouldn't collapse in a pile as a result of a little Cataloy in one outer sill.
Aye, it was a funny old world back then.
It wouldn't have been so bad if the AA had, for example, chosen a sill on an A60 or MK3 Cortina as those at least had box sections running along the floor and wouldn't collapse in a pile as a result of a little Cataloy in one outer sill.
Aye, it was a funny old world back then.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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