Andys 83 full resto

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looking good so far mate  :wink:
keep up the good work   8)

Looks like you are doing a good job so far!

I don't think you'll need to brace the car when you remove the tub. especially not if it is on stands and is not being moved around.

Roof skin might have been less work actually, but looks like your nearly thee now.

Cracking work mate

looking good mate keep up the work

awrite mate how did you do the sunroof?, just filler over the whole lot or weld the old sunroof skin in place? or something else? looks like youve done a cracking job

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Does help indeed, any complicated bits to it or fairly straight forward? Just I've a habit of complicating even the most simple jobs somehow… was the filler side of it easy enough? As im pretty rubbish at it, cheers

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Oh wow, brave man!! I had recently posted up about fitting one of these as was debating buying one from CQ

Can't wait to see your update now!

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Good work there mate

Which dealer did you buy this off mate

There was one in Oxford for sale by a dealer don't know if it was this one and they wanted £6k for it.

Was the sunroof an after market one that was fitted ?

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Nice to see you getting it sorted Andy! I didn't think the filler neck went through this panel from memory, thought it went under. Did wonder what the holes were for though!

Ref the alignment, I guess would have been worth measuring the distance between the two top mount points before cutting out the old tub! That said, I'm sure someone can get a tape over theirs soon enough.

This was my main concern but as CQ kindly reminded me, most of the geometry will be defined by the beam mounts which haven't changed so you should be ok

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That sounds very mathematical!!! lol

Ref the hole, not sure there is one at all on the original??

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Coming on nicely!

Where did you get your outer arch repair panels from and were they any good?