Finished welding Matt's Baja

It's done!
We tidied up all the little jobs and the welding is now complete - YAY!!

The bottom corners of the windscreen surround needed work, so we robbed a section from the old roof I saved - the rear side window aperture is just the same profile so we used a bit of that.
Man-John's idea and a very good one at that.

Very tricky to cut this bit out and not damage anything else

Managed to make a decent enough job all the same, just a little bit of weld "filler" to dress back.
Matt's having a go with my favourite fettling tool, die grinder & tungsten carbide burr - cuts through weld like cheese.

A quick lick with the flap-wheel and we're done

I'm quite chuffed with this repair

Did the other side as well, not so pretty but the donor section wasn't so good.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

We had to let in another large piece of gutter, we used every inch of useful gutter from the donor......very tedious.

We also did the other side of the bonnet line, more butt-welding :)

Sprayed with galv' paint, sweet.

I'm glad that's done, there hasn't been any part of the bodyshell left untouched.
We've replaced or repaired the bottom few inches of the entire car and plenty more besides.
I've enjoyed it though, I've learned some valuable new tricks for the next one.

Next job is to get Tom's Baja body removed from the ropey floorpan it's sitting on, we'll use Tom's 'pan to move Matt's bodyshell back to his gaff.
Matt's going to slap on some filler, some primer and a nice top-coat......looking forward to having a test-drive.

A few weeks rest and we'll start on Tom's Baja, I'm sure there will be plenty to do.
When Tom's is done it's going onto the Semi 'pan.........

Confused?