The little accident that I mentioned happened on my way home from work in 1989 and involved a bit too much speed, some gravel, a bend and a couple of pretty hard curbs.
I lost it in the bend and hit one curb which bent the offside tiebar then I shot back across the road hitting the curb pretty hard, head on. This ripped off the offside front wheel and slammed it into the drivers footwell and rear section of the wing and dented the nearside outer wheel rim (split rims).
After getting the car taken home I decided it was time to repaint it back to it's origional yellow/black as it was a metalic maroon. It looked nice enough but I really wanted it yellow.
To cut a long story short after several house moves, a few job changes and a few other projects got in the way I finally got started on it in 1999.
I stripped it down and sent it to a body shop to have the repairs done and to be painted but when I got it back the repair was to basicaly beat the sh*t out of the footwell with a 4 pounder then spray it the wrong yellow.
I was not impressed but had run out of time to get it redone and decided to sort it out once in the UK.
So the first job was to take the wings off and repair the footwell. This meant removing the whole 'A' panel and replacing it with a panel from Expressed Panels.
Here are a few pics for your enjoyment
