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    IN FOR A PENNY…

    Dec 24, 2020 6 minutes
    REPORT: SIMON GOLDSWORTHY

    Digging away at a classic car to discover how far back the rust and previous repairs go is always a voyage into the unknown – you never know just what you are going to discover, and you really shouldn’t start investigating unless you are prepared to follow things through to their ultimate conclusion. That was certainly the case with our project Midget. Having taken the decision last issue to remove the nearside sill and see what lay beneath, there was a lot less Midget left on the axle stands when I next visited Alan Denne’s workshop.

    To recap very briefly, we knew that an outer sill had been welded over the remains of the original, and that the A-post and the lower section of the rear wing had been padded with filler to bring them out to meet the new profile. Removing the front wing showed that the inner wheelarch was not properly attached to the front flange on the sill, while sanding off the filler revealed some brazed repairs to both the A-post and the

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