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PACresta
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 Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Good lord!! you certainly got your work cut out there, well worth it though  12 months for a project like that is very good, will be nice to get out and about in that, will draw the crowds. Good Luck, will look forward to seeing progress. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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Its such a biggie, thats why I ended up biting the bullet and enlisting this local resto company to get on with the truck (where buzzy is doing his training stuff) - I have room to store the complete vehicle, but pulling it apart required probably 4x the space to scatter it all around, plus a shedload of time that I don't seem to have either, so the only option was to get someone else on the case with it.....hopefully it'll all go to plan  its not far from here so I can keep an eye on things regularly 
The trailer is less of a monster so should be able to do the prep work for that here
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buzzy bee
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I spent part of today, removing screwes from the floorboards, so that they can all be numbered and taken out!
The interior is nearly stripped out now. What did you think Rick?
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Had a call from the resto place today, they told me that the floorboards aren't coming out to well and that I should come and have a look. Basically the wooden planks have deteriorated and show signs of woodworm here n there, and some are oil-soaked and in poor shape. Plus when they are coming out, some are splitting etc. The millions of small screws holding it in are putting up a fight too, so they asked if I'd be ok with the floor being replaced with identical looking material, sourced from a reclamation yard.
Ideally I'd prefer to keep the original and treat it where necessary, but the time (and cost) of trying to pull it up properly, with no guarantees that what comes out will actually be usable, means that I think I'll have to go with what they suggest, ah well!
The important bits of wood, that were haphazardly nailed in the back in order that a DB3 Aston could be carried in it back in the 50s, have come out ok and will be returned to their original positions once the main flooring has been replaced.
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Rick, do you have any photos with the Alfa sitting inside the Dodge?
Curious if the Alfa sat on the wheel wells or if they just rolled the tires up and over.
A little hard to tell but in the 2nd pic it looks like they hammered the wells in to cradle the tires.
Are you going to leave them as is or return them to their original shape?
Would have been nice if the original wood had been in better shape but nothing wrong with replacing it. It'll all look good in the end!  |
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Hi stuchamp
No I've only got pics of the Alfa behind the Dodge, or alongside - it used to go in backwards, with the rear wheels rolled up against two curved wheel stops behind the driver. I think the inner arches were battered down so as not to foul the car's bodywork, and they'll be left like that. The Alfa is quite a big car, not sure if the front wheels would have got back enough to get on the inner arches or not.
I need to dig out the Dodge trailer sometime and work out how to pull that apart and tidy it up
RJ
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I have just got back from the resto place, all of the flooring is out now, I only called in quickly, but I did spend a few hours last week carefully removing the screwes, or some of them, and it was very hard going!
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Dave
P.S... I am working there on thursday and friday! |
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Looks big inside now with all of the wood removed!
Be good to have the engine out, I am desperate to know the weight of it, I wondered if hiabs have a scale to show the weight of the item being lifted, big cranes do?
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