Spitfire Progress Report

14th February 2015

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The Spitfire’s new external panels

I paid a visit to Wymondham in Norfolk this morning to check out the progress Andy Dann in making with the restoration of the bodywork.

To do a decent job, he has to cut out all of the rust and get back to sound metal.

In the Spitfire’s case this will involve Andy cutting out and replacing most of the body panels on the sides and bottom of the car. This a big job and requires a lot of skill to get all of the seams to line up correctly

In the five weeks that we were away, Andy has done most of the welding on the driver’s side of the car. This half of the vehicle now has: a new boot lid, new boot floor, new inner and outer rear wing, new door skin, new inner and outer sills, new driver’s floor, new cross-member, new footwell.

Andy is making good progress. He has to work on my car between other jobs so he estimates that he will complete the work - including the respray, by the end of May.

I took away a box full of underbody parts for cleaning and painting with chassis paint, so this will give me something useful to do for a week or two.

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New boot floor

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New floor and footwell

 
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