Third time lucky for trying to leave a post on this: I have movet Roxy cat from undre my arms at the Key board. so I now cant blame her.
Beautiful: before I retired subframes and chassis from project cars were fully stripped and sent away to the shot blasters when they came back the were inspected for dammage and that dammage was repaired. in the case of classic chassis we usualy added mounting plates for seat belts so the cars were safer to drive with a driver restraint system.
We then shotblast the areas we had worked on before sending the part to the galvanizers to be galvanized upon return all threaded parts had taps or dies run up them to clean the threads then all new bushes were pressed into the finnished part if the part was to be painted this would happen before any further work would continue once the part was fully assembled ready to go back to where it came from it was treated with cavity wax and self healing pannel wax on the surfaces that were exposed. we would re wax the under side of a car every three to four years.
it is at times like this I wish I had kept the photographs and not sent them with the finished car back to their owner.
We were very lucky being close to the old ship yards on the River Clyde there were shops that could Pickle and Galvanize parts up to 25 feet long and the bath was ten feet deep this ment there was not much we worked on that they could not treat for us.
It is so nice to see members doing a home job to such high standards I have to confess the last subframe I replaced was just a new part wax treated. when I come to do the spice tourer I will buy new frames but send them For shot blasting and Galvanizing before painting then treating with wax prior to fitting. I know its over kill But I am hoping this car when finished will be better than it was when it rolled off the production line. in 2004.
Keep up the good work everybody. I find it very sad that our cars are dissappering so quickly from the roads. I can never understand why people are happy to spend £300+ every month for over 40 years to have their new car on the drive when if they were to kook after one car properly from new they would never reach the level of expenditure they do on their modern euro box. and they would own a classic car.
Not only that but the natural resorces required to build a car and the pollution generated would be greatly reduced.
thus doing your bit to save the planet.
Great Photographs guys keep up the good work.
Alan
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