notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted October 27, 2019 A friend of mine had bought this a 1300 sport, just a simple resto he thought It came to me with a few floor panels, new wings, and a lot of metal cut out already severely wearing the structure so god knows how they were going to weld it back together drivers floor pan cut out, a post cut out upper bulkhead centre cut out, drivers sill cut off left a very weak shell i decided to use my own car for a jig and removed the running gear and started fabricating a jig with various points for anti roll bar mounts, crossmember, jacking points, u brackets to hold chassis in place, leaf spring points, anti roll bar mount (not that this car needs them), rear spring hanger points, etc etc We got the car mounted on the jig and started to figure out the best plan and someone had welded on new top plates in the wrong position so new inner wings bulkhead and upper bulkhead were ordered more to follow 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted October 27, 2019 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted October 29, 2019 New inner wings arrived, just need to decide whether to remove the type 49 strengthening as the sport shouldn’t have it from the factory Cutting out the rear floor and seat crossmember as will loose the welds under the brace etc RP could you rotate this 180 please 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted November 3, 2019 As ever you think I’ll save that repair this and it doesn’t work that way Inner wings off Bulkhead off and tidy the remaining metal up! What’s left lol after a bit of a clean up 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted November 6, 2019 New panels trial fitted plenty left to do to get them lined up Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted January 1 Going to get a couple of days on this next week so will get a decent progress report up Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rally Pack 2000 1,408 Report post Posted January 1 Its going to be brilliant. Aren't Mk1 1300 Sports rarer than some RS models? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray 547 Report post Posted January 1 22 minutes ago, Rally Pack 2000 said: Its going to be brilliant. Aren't Mk1 1300 Sports rarer than some RS models? tbh, I may be wrong, but I was under the impression it was the rarest, but Rallye should be able to tell us more, as he has one and runs the 1300 sport Still retards club page I believe 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted January 1 I’m not sure how rare but def up there Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted January 1 Whilst I was at the NEC I was chatting to a guy who said he had been looking for his old Daytona yellow 1300 sport he told me the Reg and it’s only this car! What are the chances of that! He sent me some pics of how it was when he used to sprint it! Ill post them up 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theloudboy 376 Report post Posted January 1 Top work mate keep the updates coming Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 3 Been a while since I’ve been able to get some work done on this, but have a little more time so here’s this weeks progress floor welded in, all seams ground back Pouter sill test fitted 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 3 Door pin was stuck solid need oxyacetylene to remove it, this blow gun didn’t help original ford welds didn’t hold up well Door test fitted Jacking point welded in place Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 3 Now have the door shutting spot on, will get the drivers side floor and sills fitted then onto the bulkhead and inner wings 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theloudboy 376 Report post Posted April 3 Mate that is some wicked work there geezer, love it 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 3 I’ll try and add a few more words over the weekend lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerrytom161 155 Report post Posted April 3 Looking good , 👍👍 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 3 28 minutes ago, Jerrytom161 said: Looking good , 👍👍 Once the bulkhead is on I’ll be well happy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerrytom161 155 Report post Posted April 3 Job for the weekend . 🤔 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 3 No having the weekend off, need to paint indoors lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Monza 244 Report post Posted April 4 This is coming on m8. That jig looks great..Recon the Sport is as rare as the GT. Nearly all the cars we see being built now are Mex and RS's Keep the update's coming tho!!Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 4 I was sent some pics of the original owner competing in a sprint at curborough sprint course in the 70s 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Munch 179 Report post Posted April 6 I call that fate, meeting with the owner of the car you are restoring by chance. That's a great story and will help with the cars provenance, especially with pictures. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenoughtime 487 1 Vehicles Report post Posted April 6 This is what we have got to tackle this week, we have already made a stepped infill panel for the floor under the seat crossmember which has been tacked together, this was done by straightening the repair panels out then making the infill, as these panels normally go over the seat crossmember, and obviously didn’t want to do that, once we are happy we will weld the panel together then grind back so the welds are invisible This is the previous owners A post repair, we are also missing the top hinge but one ordered today, let’s see how this goes 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
