I've seriously considered cutting the wings off and getting it out that way, but it seems a bit perverse. It's an early eight bar grille car and while it's too rusty for me to justify restoring someone else might want to do it. It would make life a lot easier though, and there are a couple of panels which might come in handy.

 

haha! Hari Kari hadn't heard that one before!!

 

Post some pics of the offending rust heap and you can get a gauge of opinion re cutting or possible rescue, or just other opinions about how best to get the engine out !

 

Probably bad taste, the art of suicide by falling on ones sword as practiced by the Japanese.

 

I'll take some photos this afternoon and post them. Overseas the car might be salvageable, but here in Australia there are plenty of cars nowhere near as rusty to restore. My other Mk1 has only one tiny bit of rust that needs to be repaired that I can see for instance.