Just started my P5B resto ,my other car is a ...............

[bassman]

Hi everyone .....Oh no not one of those .......... this was a labour of love and a little money pit , it started off nearly 10 years ago as an alternative vehicle for my wife and myself while the P5 was off the road, was supposed to take six months and be able to be parked in the street ......yeah !!!! have a look at the gallery and you can see we went from this



via this



to this




take a look at the album, the car isn't perfect it wont win prizes ,we've just done it to the best of our ability and want to use it as an everyday car, i will be using it pretty much every weekend to drive to gigs as i play in a pub blues rock band ,it has bags of character and is great fun to work on and drive....if you dont mind old fashioned 'will it or wont it stop' brakes

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[djm16]

What a beautiful job. You are going to have fun with the P4. Should keep you out of trouble for about 10 years.

My Traveller was MUCH worse than this! The woodwork is a bit of a killer, but the repair panels soon add up too. I eventually did about 100,000 miles on it and it stood outside for 10 years. In the end I had to get a modern car too as I could not keep up with the maintenance (and still work).

While I think about it, the woodwork is the most vulnerable bit. Rot develops first around the drain holes in the horizontal beam and where the H beam meets the uprights. I developed three tricks to preserving it.

1) MOST important. Water must be trained away from where the H beam meet the uprights. To do this I jacked the front of the car up, and poured slightly diluted roofing bitumen into the water channels at the very rear. Waited for it to set (several days) before jacking up the rear and doing the same thing to the front.

2) plugged the drain holes in the horizontal beam with blu-tac and then poured first preservative down until the wood would soak up no more, and then after weeks of allowing it to dry did the same thing with varnish.

3) I used a flexible microporous (UV resistant) varnish only. I forget the name now, but don't use Sadolins or other domestic microporous stuff, it is not up to it.

[Mr Pelham]

Must be a relief that the only wood on the p5 is in the interior and non structural!! Traveller wood a bit daunting but nothing compared to those dodgy old rollercoasters in southport (are they still there?) Hope ill have some moggy pics to add in the future, my grandads car, he bought new in '69. Laid up when he stopped driving 6 yrs ago (when 89!) He has a new home now so the mog needs one too! Hoping to get back on the road and take him out for a drive down memory lane!

[Mr Pelham]

Must be a relief that the only wood on the p5 is in the interior and non structural!! Traveller wood a bit daunting but nothing compared to those dodgy old rollercoasters in southport (are they still there?) Hope ill have some moggy pics to add in the future, my grandads car, he bought new in '69. Laid up when he stopped driving 6 yrs ago (when 89!) He has a new home now so the mog needs one too! Hoping to get back on the road and take him out for a drive down memory lane!

[GlennR]

;)A very nice job on the moggie. Well done

[norvin]

I love the night for night shot in the garage.