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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 9:01:40 GMT
this it a 9 hour history of mine and dafdaffers 44 saloon. Warning if you are easly distrested i would read no further  it all started at 9.10 on saturday morning when we found this  It had been in the same place for a few weeks  . We started stripping out the glass.  so we could do this at 9.20      who needs harry potter magic to make a car fly ;D |
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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 9:10:32 GMT
At 10.00 it was back to my place   once in place we managed to get the boot open (dafdaffer has this on video) ;D and we found some nice glasses in it. ;D ;D  ;D weres Wally impression. This is were we had a look at what we had. The boot floor, the other side is just as bad.  The passenger side wing.  The drivers side wing.  Rust in the roof.  the floor or whats left of it.  and the engine  |
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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 9:18:12 GMT
So the strip down started  the bonet is ok so we removed it. the started on the engine.  front wing removed by hand ;D  large spiders found all over the place.  other wing removed by hand.  Front chassis leg holding engine in  engine out by 11.45, lots of rusty bolts.  . |
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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 9:28:59 GMT
we spent the next 2 hours stripping as many good bits as we could ;D   Then things started to move on. convertable  Ooops  Stripping the front cross member about to start.  A handsom man in nice glasses  . |
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Post by pyoorkate on Sept 20, 2009 9:31:49 GMT
Mate! A quick bit of T-Cut, a touch of filler and she'd've been good. |
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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 9:35:14 GMT
Then started stripping out the rear end over she goes.  and all out and packed away in the garage for 6.30pm   just three large bits for the scrap man to pick up next week.  All thats left of a once great DAF. |
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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 9:38:21 GMT
Unfortunatly she was not as good as your volvo or we would have saved her, 20 years off the road and at least 10 of them on the farm had not been kind, only panel saved was the bonet.
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Post by dafdaffer on Sept 20, 2009 10:43:35 GMT
the car looked fine with them glasses on.
it was was a bargain for the original £300 asking price ;D
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Sept 20, 2009 11:26:18 GMT
Incredible. And the owner/seller genuinely believed in his heart of hearts that someone would like to spend a considerable amount of money restoring it!
Very impressive crane you had there.
And DAFDaffer - those specs are so you!!
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Post by Patrick on Sept 20, 2009 12:50:53 GMT
That makes the one on ebay look positively easy! It had one of these I take it?  I once saw an abandoned Fiesta with a council removal notice on the front - and one of those cards stuck in the side window. |
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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 13:04:53 GMT
It was a full card carrying car have no fear of that.
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Post by spunkymonkey on Sept 20, 2009 17:45:50 GMT
That's the trouble with those purple ones - rot always gets to them in the end ;D Oh, and I want that HIAB to play with......  |
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Post by stefan on Sept 20, 2009 18:56:59 GMT
I want it to its very handy just uses a bit of fuel.
I will just have to settle with being aloud to borrow it and a driver now and again.
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Post by dafdaffer on Oct 6, 2009 23:49:41 GMT
took a while but vid is on, bit long winded and same pictures as already on web
Paul
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