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These are great strong style of clecos. 3/16" hole and with wingnut will draw panels together with a great deal of force. Are designed for custom one off work vs. Standard cleco fasteners
looks better now but when I had cut off the entire back end of the car and all that was there were the two little side braces I had a moment of panic, but replacment panel fit well and some straightening of the original braces and I trial fit the boot floor and it actually looks/fits well. Just need to order the RH brace (hopefully wont take too long--of course a special order item. Cutting the floor out tonight I hope!
Wow Rick. That looks like a 'Do not try this at home' but you're breaking that rule badly! Certainly not at my home. If you ever want to drive a few hours south to see what one looks like whole - and seek a little R&R - come on! Very impressive stuff.
This gets more impressive with every post. You couldn't get a more ambitious xke restoration, and you've saved an e-type roadster that would otherwise have certainly been relegated to the salvage yard. Kudos!
Glad it's not me ...at this point I'd be opening the rear wheel arches for wider tyres, building in cupholders etc...
There are definitely times I feel in over my head, but just work through the problem. I do curse an unnamed worker on the coventry assembly line for his overexuberent use of his spot welder--crickey he must of got paid per weld rather than hour, and the the next shift worker would only place 1 or 2 welds in a critical point that needed more. Oh well these cars were not meant to last this long yet did. Hopefully will be getting engine back next month even though I wont need it for a while. While waiting for panels will start of the '58 frog eye sprite restoration by making a purpose designed rotisserie for it as it is a monocoque design as well, just can't pull front frame rails as on the e-type.
Looks better than it is but not as bad as the other one!
the 58 that needs rotisserie ( i do have the door at least
ROugh but all original
Lots of character: brits call this a Frogeye sprite vs. bugeye here in US
you are doing a great job "knitting" together a new Jag! 35 years ago I was doing a similar thing with my XK150, but MIGs and TIGs and plasma cutters, and reproduction panels were not available. I had to use nibbler, arc welder and a lot of brazing. Maybe that's why it took me 8 years!
Will dress down plug welds to make them more cosmetic. Panels here were from monocoque metalworks and fit was excellent as always. Chuck is a generous source of information and unique panels for the e-type.
Eventually will use my dustless blasting system (no panel warpage, neat system) to take exposed shell to bare metal and prime with 2-pak urethane or epoxy.
Transmission tunnel welded in. Lots of weld through primer and seam sealer used under it on seam in floor joint
prepped for forward part of tunnel
Tunnel panels were massaged and fitted 4-6 times before final welding
Side in last. Excellent fit with shifter cover. Will move to inner back bulkhead in the next few days now.
good night in shop
