[6pack] Floorpan replacement and Rust repair quote...

[James_]

Thanks Sloan. 
Yea, I want good work. 
I just spoke to another guy who does British cars and he has done many floor pans and it doesn't require lifting the body off. Sure, lifting the body off is easier access and probably allows show quality/factory level construction. 

I plan/hope to find a donor body wheel arch panel to cut out the section I need. I may need the inner fender too. 
I suspect all this damage was from the brake fluid leaking and not realizing to exposed to the elements to cause such horrible rust. Or it is a coincidence.  

This guy kinda pissed me off actually. The whole attitude. Like when I said I rebuilt the tranny. His reply: 'ok that's scary' what? I told him 'ok, it was 15 years ago and shifts perfect. It's just a damn puzzle. !' Then he backed down a little. 
I suspect he is used to people that have more money than sense. 
I appreciate he wants to do a top notch job. And nothing shy of that. 
But sadly the truth is triumphs are jags or healey's. 
Read into that what you will. 
At some point I have to consider my bank account. 
I do however want to have a great car that I can drive and enjoy and not hear the rust. 
:-)

-James 

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 3:04 PM, "im sloane" <im_sloane at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> James,
> My .02 on the floors and could be taken as advice on the whole job. My brother's 73 needed new floors as the first project when he got it. He ordered new pans from TRF and I "thought" it sounded like something I could do, obviously not. So I took it to a local "country" body shop that had painted mine years before. Kinda of a crappy place but did good work. He seemed to understand what I wanted done, but made his own decision on how to do it. Picked up the car, floors nice and seam sealed and everything looked good, from the top. First time I was under it I saw what he had done. He cut my new floors to make 'whole car' replacement panels and welded them in where he had cut out the old ones. Now this wasn't a LBC guy, and he did what he intended to do just fine. Car is fine, solid, everything is great, except I know it wasn't really done right. 
> 
> Moral to my story: Had I been at a shop that knew how to work on LBCs, it probably would have snowballed into something like you're facing. But in the long run, his car was back on the road pretty quick (once I got the rest of the interior back together) and he's enjoyed it for miles and miles. Does it win any shows - NO. Does it get positive comments and does he enjoy talking to other LBC guys at the shows - YES. Does he enjoy driving it and the looks it gets as he passes by - YES. 
> 
> My goal: hold down the total cost of ownership as much as possible and enjoy driving the piss out of my car. 
> 
> Sloane :o)
> 
> 
> To: 6pack at autox.team.net
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 20:42:08 +0000
> Subject: [6pack] Floorpan replacement and Rust repair quote...
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