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Then put it back the right way up to see how it looks. The forward face of the seat back / firewall bulkhead is not yet finally fitted...

Then I could-turn the chassis over and start working on the floor panels. The floor is 2 mm thickness, all the previously mentioned...

Got the internal side panels fully fitted

Got some paneling done. On the foremost bulkhead I made things difficult for myself by wanting to close off on the outside face of the...

At some places I want to do an overlap joint so am experimenting with some makeshift tooling to make a panel thickness joggle.

In other news, I had previously bought bolts with suitable grip lengths to suit the suspension attachments. These needed to have the...

I made these which work very well for me. I prefer the bottom of the chassis at just above knee height, makes working on anything above...

In some places I am riveting 19 x 19 extruded angle to the chassis to give me a flange to secure to. I figured out a cheat to be able to...

Once I had finished cleaning out all the internal threads I could make a start on the aluminium panelling. Although this is a space...

And finally the roll bar structure. I bolted in the support for the driver head rest just because it could finally be a part that stays...

Various body mounting and other subframes

A view of the engine bay showing various brackets for such as handbrake cables, fuel tank and lines, brake lines etc . The small...

Took some record pictures of the complete chassis. Not shown are 2 diagonal bars that bolt into the front of the side sill structures

Very exciting weekend for me! Got the chassis and subframes back from paint and I am very happy with it. The colour is Basalt grey RAL...

The garage looks so empty with the chassis gone. I disassembled the build table the chassis has stood on for so long and used some of...