Imported brown, a cautionary tale

[Dean]

I thought it woiuld be amusing to give you all nightmares tonight, so to help that process along, some visual aids.
Enjoy!
To kick off we have one of the best sections of outer sill, i call this shot 'The floorpan that isnt behind the inner sill, which isnt behind the outer sill, that isnt'
photo(6) by Deanxm, on Flickr
The missing
photo(5) by Deanxm, on Flickr
Its not often you hear a V6 owner say they wish there was less engine bay access but this would be one of those times
photo(4) by Deanxm, on Flickr
Powder coated subframe
photo(3) by Deanxm, on Flickr
AND race lightened for better weight distribution
photo(2) by Deanxm, on Flickr
Thoughtfull access points to critical electrical connections
photo(1) by Deanxm, on Flickr
and in keeping with tradition i have saved the best until last, the mobile jacking point, simply lay this between your jack and any part of the car (except those shown above) to give a safe and convenient load bearing surface.
photo by Deanxm, on Flickr

Sleep easy and keep that schutz can close gentlemen.

D

[Dieselman]

When you weigh in the shell are you going to carry it there in a bucket?

What condition is the front scuttle in? How hard would it be to recover it intact?

[raynoon]

Dean... how did you come by pics of K21 CEO???

[Dean]

Will, for you, i will cut the car off the scuttle to ensure it comes out in one bit................................................when i say cut i of course mean brush........orleave out in the wind.

Ray, not even CEO was this bad surely!, its plain to see why Paul just said no way was this going back on the road, you can see in some pictures where lifting the car has caused the whole floorpan to bow.

I was going to weigh it in, i also want to get the engine out but after carefull examination i think a good storm will take care of engine removal and disposal of the shell.

D

[White Exec]

Nightmare indeed, Dean. I thought only British Leyland was capable of that.
All held together by a bit of wiring and the odd connector, it seems.

Bad Sight of the Week

[xmexclusive]

I seem to remember a few years ago Robert Smart finding one like that in Ireland.
Only it looked much better on account of the draft excluders that had been fitted.
Sills neatly fitted with conduit tube, spare space stuffed with plastic bags and neatly skimmed over with filler.

[White Exec]

I vaguely remember several Leyland 1100/1300 almost leaving the factory like that.
The sills on these were actually stuffed with foam sponge, presumably to reduce resonances. I kid you not.

[kingp]

Ceo definitely wasn't that bad but then the buyer of it was given many many chances to poke around it and get on the floor to check it and it was sold as being a decent xm that needed more work(as any xm would be that's not been dry stored for its life or been owned by a specialist who greased and undercoated it every 6months but then it wasn't sold at a huge profit or claimed that they had putnjn all the hard work to make it a show winner :p

[Eddie nuff]

That's the trouble with perfectionists, the first sign of a tiny bit of rust and they run for the hills.

[Dean]

I am happy to admit bringing this back to life would be beyond my skills

I may well cut her up though and get some good photo's as i have the gear where it is to pick her up and stand it on its end against a wall to get some good shots of how the chassis is put together as a cavity waxing guide, kind of make a cutaway model, easy to see where you need to get to then and it would only take a few hours to do.

D