The story so far !

Hi Guys
Just a quick one to introduce my Elf ( will put up photo's when i have worked out how to do it !)
"wilbur" is a 1969 G reg almond green with white roof Elf bought on ebay as a project with my 15 year old son although he has since lost interest
it has 3 owners from new & has covered about 79k miles
It looked quite ok when delivered, Bit of a shock to discover it was an Auto! as the seller said it was a manual , think he got confused by the 4 speeds showing on the gear lever ! good news it starts runs & selected all the gears .
The second slight shock was the minor dents in the outer rear wings above the wheel arches
We decided to start @ the rear of the car working forwards removing all the trim
all went well untill we removed the petrol tank and the inner boot floor suport brackets ,
when some pretty horrible welding / patches came to light ,
it turned out the whole of the boot floor had been patched from both the inside & the outside, so off with the subframe ( thats was a nightmare of sheared & rusted imovable bolts, plumbing fittings & bits of central heating pipework let into the supension pipes )
Needless to say the Elf now has no boot floor or rear seat pan, my wife was not best pleased with all the angle grinding & dust & the vast expenditure on gringing disks ! but the good news is that with the application of a bottle jack between the parcel shelf & the inner wheel arches the dents in the outer body work are 95% fixed, it seems the previous owner had made up patches & bent the body to fit distorting the wings !
we are just waiting for the application of the welding torch ! if any one has any advice it will be greatley received

will try & put photos on to night

Hi Mike,

Welcome to the forum! It sounds like you've made a good start even if you have got your hands full! Looking forward to seeing the pics.

Welcome, share pictures and keep moving forward!!

Sounds like fun. On the grinding discs front, Screwfix are quite good value...

As regards advice, have a look through the project threads, there's lot's of interesting stuff and valuable advice. Seeing how other people have done it often helps to know how it should be or how to do it.

welcome and best of luck

hope it goes well