1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:51 pm

pbottomley wrote: Now you need a concourse one to make the full set :lol:
Two is enough for me, i haven’t got the room for a third :)
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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:54 pm

Splash guard made as the original ones have rotted and fell off, i only have one new one so its used as a template to make a pair out of sheet aluminium

Still got the other side to make

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It’s all being waxoyled underneath so it won’t be shiny silver
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Headlining repaired

the rear screen rubber has shrunk so much with age it has let the top of the headlining fall out, the rubber won’t hold it up anymore so its had to be glued
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repaired mouse hole
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trim repaired
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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:21 pm

more welding :)


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Removed underseal from nearside front arch and painted with red oxide, the whole underside is being stripped and painted then covered with waxoyl including all suspension bits

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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:01 pm

Welding continues :)

All the welding is now done on the passenger side just got the spare wheel well, boot floor and chassis centre section to repair on the driver’s side

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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby Paul Dawson » Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:22 am

How did you repair those holes in the headlining? Mine is in need of repair and I have no idea how to go about it.
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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Sun Apr 07, 2013 3:54 pm

Paul Dawson wrote:How did you repair those holes in the headlining? Mine is in need of repair and I have no idea how to go about it.


the holes where repaired by finding some material of similar colour and pushing it through the hole then gluing it on the back of the headlining hole, once the hole was covered the loose flaps where glued back down. The damage is still obvious but its a lot better than having a big hole in the headlining
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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Sun Apr 07, 2013 3:55 pm

Floor panel from a land rover used to repair the boot floor

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Boot floor painted, petrol tank back in with new pipe to engine and two fuel filters fitted

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Petrol tank painted and waxed on rear

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New set of crossply tyres on the original rims 550 x 12 for front and 600 x 12 for rear but there is no visual size difference between the two

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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby hbpeter » Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:49 pm

That boot floor looks very good. How much was the Land Rover section? Why the different size tyres?

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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:54 pm

HBPeter wrote:That boot floor looks very good. How much was the Land Rover section? Why the different size tyres?

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Thanks...... the land rover floor is about £50-60 new but the one i got was second hand cut out of a scrap car so i got it at a bargain price of £7.50

No reason for different tyre sizes other than they where cheap bought off eBay in pairs, they are visually both the same size which was a surprise, i also bought a Dunlop 600 for the spare and its massive compared to the camac 600's
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Re: 1965 Viva HA Standard Barn Find

Postby MTV-VIVA » Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:54 pm

New exhaust silencer and tailpipe fitted

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Waxoyled under nearside front and rear arches, new wheel cylinders, shoes, brake pipes

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