like the title says its been a while since my last post (so I had forgoten my blog user name and password!), the shell has been collected from the very nice people at pro motive, but very little progress in the past 2 years or so until now ......................
I did start stripping out the donor car back in July 2012, I had a couple of free weekends and managed to strip out all the parts under the car, the exhaust, the petrol tank and fuel lines, severed the main brake lines to the subframes and get the car up on blocks in prepartation for dropping out the subframes.
I eventually got round to dropping the subframes, removing the steering rack, steering column, gear lever and selector, the handbrake and removed the dash and switches this week (19th - 21st Feb)! All parts bagged and tagged and electrics all labelled up.....................
No major dramas only one bolt on the rear subframe on the petrol tank side boot floor had to be cut with an angle grinder, which was a major surprise, the rest came off really easily.
So the donor is now looking a little more sad for itself .................. and the past three years sat up on blocks have taken their toll, more rust, more holes, green slime and the windscreen rubbers have perished and are letting in water.
But progress has been made, I have spoken to a couple of companies that could potentially be willing to build a spaceframe chassis / roll cage that can be tied into the subframe and suspension mounting points so hopefully by May (or at least the end of the year) I should have a rolling shell...............
