Great turn out for this inaugural event and a nice alternative venue for everyone, well done
Category Archives: Members Cars
Stephen Emery’s fleet of Cars
Titchfield Carnival 2014
Jim’s Panhard (his Story)
OK– I enclose some photos . as said the car looked ok from 30 feet away…
Once the paint was off it an ugly truth came to the light–old ‘get-it-thru -an-MOT- 1970’s bodgery
panel gaps that were uneven, dings, ripples, creases in panels,
but most especially corrosion of epic proportions in the ( water-trap) sill structure,
as well as various small bubbles that turned into gaping chasms of rust-holes;
all this had bew metal laid in -at all time ensuring that the door all fitted and everything was fair in plane.
The interior seating had seat covers–which covered the ugly truth of the underying seats.
the original seating fabric finish was rust stained, split , fragile and torn
Thankfully the seats were saved–they were repaired by a plastic welding lady and resprayed in a similar way to re-connolising seats
Even the interior headlining- which was stained and had some small tears in–was repaired and resprayed in situ in the car .
the door cards all had new hard-board -etra thin –which was varnished to prevent water ingress and consequent damage
all new brakes , new carburretor and soem extensive rewiring has made the car a joy to thread though modern traffic.
despite being only a mere 843 cc–in a aircooled flat-twin, the Panhard will travel at 75mph on the motorway thansk to a very tall 4 gear
acceleration is fairly pedestrian–but the car will maintain reasonable pace( and save its face! ) in modern traffic
I enclose a few images of the car as I bought her
along with a few images of the scary bits during the rebuild…
Along with the stunningly rotten part donor that has since been sold on to assist another Panhard rebuild… and finally the finished product
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Jim’s Panhard Restoration
Here are some images and narrative from Jim, reference his latest project.
This is the project and below is an interesting article from Jim reference door card restoration
I next attacked the door cards..
I was initially intending to use 3 mm marine ply– but experimenting with the staple gun showed it to shatter and split
==> so a denser medium was required–ergo why they used hardboard in the first instance..?
Mindful of comments that ordinarily available hardboard is too thick (1/4 “) I managed to source some 2.9 mm very dense hardboard from local specialist timber merchant ( Bamptons Vespasian Road Southampton)
I had the boards cut by a local kitchen fitter-( he is a good guy– german chap with excellent attention to detail)
-whose tools are good and sharp!( as was his precison and knowhow !)
I deliberately did not have the D- shaped clip apertures cut in
==> as sprung clips are often the ruin of all door cards–
…. especially when one needs to remove them from the door itself
( ie for window winder repairs or door lock fiddling )
The hardboard,even when not damp, old or distorted tends to give way –as the clip — by way of its mounting tends to set up a one-sided rotational motion that endeavours to tear the clip out of the hardboard, resulting in the usual array of retro desperation fixes of numerous screws through the edges of the door cards…
On motoryachts ( with which I work and come into contact with via my business) all sidelinings and headlinings these days are installed with 50 wide mm velcro– this gives total area adhesion with no point-loadings.
I have endeavoured to replicate this methodology on the car also– using in this instance navy blue unbranded high grab velcro– that on the metal side of the door
will be ( after painting!) be self adhesive velcro onto a pre-cleaned surface.
On the PL 17 this will work very well indeed as the upper edge rests in the ally channel-giving a horizontal repeatable datum to work from
– requiring only precise location in the vertical plain.
So as to be able to adjust this and finalise the exact location I place a sheet of thin plastic sheeting twixt the two sides velcro–and once alignment has been satisfactorily established make tiny datum marks at the edges on the door itself
The high -tack velcro door panel is lowered into position and the sheet of plastic is withdrawn–apply pressure all round and the panel sticks extraordinarily well!
This should inhibit the typical waviness that is often exhibited on door cards twixt the point loaded clips.
The rescued and re-applied 53 yr old vynil will be re-coloured on Monday to match the seats.
The door pockets were too soiled and damaged to be re-used– so I made fresh items(in the photos seen taped to the plywood –with new elastic moused into place)
I was able to locate a virtually identical grain pattern -albeit in a darker shade
This will be re-colored to match the other old vynil so that all the furnishings in the car will have a homogenous colour
When fully dry and set the new pockets will be stapled into place
Since the images were taken the old screw holes in the vinyl have been repaired and rendered 95% invisible
Removal of panel is reversal of above to a certain extent– a plastic blade ( flat glassfibre sail batten or plastic ruler is see-sawed between the Velcro layers at the centre bottom working outwards –whilst a helpful assistant ( wife?!) starts drawing up the plastic sheet twixt the seperating velcro sides.
Car goes in next Saturday for partial bare metalling ( roof and bonnet) and complete re paint —
I think I am even more excited about this paint-job then I was on the E-type ….I think!?? ! hheheh!:-D
enclosed the images of the boards–these were sprayed with enamel varnish so as to make moisture ingress resistant
Paul Barnes cars
Warsash Festival 2013
Over 60 Classic Cars attended this event, with the lions share being LHCCC members Cars, a great day, superb weather and great organisation .
The Club really enjoyed supporting this local event and look forward to repeating it in 2 years time.
Richard Hazelgrove
Richard also has a fleet of classic cars, 2 x MGB’s, 1 Singer and 1 Midge