Albert Alfvag
Member
Hello everyone. Just thought I'd share my little project with you for fun, since I've been asking questions on here for years but never really shown much.
The plan is to turn my trusty white 1988 panda 4x4 i.e. into a camel trophy panda, idea shamlessly stolen from an old post on here.
Mind you this is not a full restoration thing. This is my daily driver since almost five years and this is just to turn it into something a little more interesting, so no repainting on the inside or things like that.
Before painting I hade to get some rust sorted out, this is sweden and salty winter roads aren't the best thing.
Biggest problem was where there are three layers of steel right beside the front leaf spring attachment. The innermost layer was completely rusted up and had to be replaced. To tight to get up in there from the inside so away came the outer panel. The factory spotwelds along the bottom seam had also detached about half way down the seam so I basically replaced half the outer sil.
Alot more difficult than I imagined, this was really my first real welding project so I was nervous as s*it welding near old cavity wax and all, don't wanna burn the car down.
Turned out alright though, and managed to fit the replacement outer panel quite nicely.
More to come.
/Albert
The plan is to turn my trusty white 1988 panda 4x4 i.e. into a camel trophy panda, idea shamlessly stolen from an old post on here.
Mind you this is not a full restoration thing. This is my daily driver since almost five years and this is just to turn it into something a little more interesting, so no repainting on the inside or things like that.
Before painting I hade to get some rust sorted out, this is sweden and salty winter roads aren't the best thing.
Biggest problem was where there are three layers of steel right beside the front leaf spring attachment. The innermost layer was completely rusted up and had to be replaced. To tight to get up in there from the inside so away came the outer panel. The factory spotwelds along the bottom seam had also detached about half way down the seam so I basically replaced half the outer sil.
Alot more difficult than I imagined, this was really my first real welding project so I was nervous as s*it welding near old cavity wax and all, don't wanna burn the car down.
Turned out alright though, and managed to fit the replacement outer panel quite nicely.
More to come.
/Albert