RGJ767E aka "Boris" Hillman Imp Super Spring Special - The adventures of !

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And a start on cleaning up the paintwork. Will take a while, nearly a year stood outside now.

From this poor oxidised panel




To looking like this

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The cleanup continues

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Coming along nicely

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Seat belts from Boris came up very nice.

Might clean ones from Mildred next ;) John A. Ross

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Yip those look good, if we knew that today was gooing to be as wet as this could just have left them outside !

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Some new shoes today.





Still on stands so we might give the wheel arches a wire brush down and some new coating. Must admit to have never actually done this on Boris

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Well the bubble that annoyed me, its now cut out after a bit of nudging from wee Boaby



So now it is cut out, first wing arch cut back on surface to secure good material, was nearly spotless.








Factory paint at least all way round back except where cut out now.




And inside the A pillar was great to see this space which is more or less always hidden, still pristine, paint and covered in sticky wax, love it or hate it (I hate it) when applied correctly it certainly save the cars !



So thats it cut back with good margin, will fix inner lip soon while waiting on replacement panel.



test fit new arch section






And while that was happenning PAt cleaned the wheels

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Once the arch is fixed time to repair the stone chip thats been worn over the years

4 corners to do

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Once you start poking....
be good to see some pics of the rebuild process.?

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Keith, not much rebuild a few hours after coating and that will be in. Will post some up next few days. Still on clean-up mode.

Was going to have to wait on panels but hugh is letting me borrow one, called Scott but he only has full panels, he did kindly look at some extra ones he had but Hugh already came up with what I was after.

Not digging any further than whats their Keith, no need, its all solid.

John

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lm57krm@gmail.com Keith Epoxy up to ying yang, on neat makes great seam sealer pictures in a moment

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First of all this is the best use I have found for a radford panel to date, cut up and used in bits



New inner arch in






Was very odd doing this "mobile" at Pats.

Found a couple of crusty bits at sill end, to ve honest could have left it but new small ends fitted




So some zince rich etch and prep



And of course the required epoxy this stuff neat, lovely seam sealer



And all the rest prepped for tomorrow




Will get outer arch on tomorrow

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outer skin in today, could have saved myself a bit of time with a full arch section but did not have one so that as they say be that !

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Boris arch repair continued.

Now it is epoxy sealed a few scoops of filler, the wing arch is original so has a specific more sharp profile than the replacement panels. This means building up with some fuiller to match profiles.

Very challenging

Got ot as close as we could but cannot get paint as yet so Pat brushed some colour from the touch up pot to seal the primer.

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A full photo album with Boris getting up to all manner of mischief is here


BORIS RGJ767E PHOTO ALBUM