another bites the dust :(

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06-12-2018, 10:27 AM

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The Sweeney

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I was driving along the A180 going towards Bridlington last Tuesday AM, when I saw a Dark Blue S with serious front and rear end damage on the back of a low loader, I thought this was bad until I was returning, when just outside Market Weighton I saw some poor fella in a Lay-By standing next to an Austin Healey 3000 that had just had an engine fire. Two beauties gone in the same day...

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06-13-2018, 09:04 AM

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Nick Graves

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Originally Posted by Rapscallion

cheers guys, car being collected this week...… had a chance have a proper look at the rear arches after someone highly recommend (yeah right!) had done the rust work 14 months ago.... the near side lip is as thin as a piece of cheap A4 paper and basically held together by paint. Offside marginally better.... offside front wing has problems to under the trim. As said up thread, I had a lot of work to do....

As for the accident, it was the opposite lock snap that got me, was going forwards and sideways down the road and ran out of road before she corrected or stopped. I am very lucky nothing coming in the opposite direction. Also as it was an S bend, didn't help!

I'll be on the non S forum asking advise on replacement as probably going for 4 seat convertible. Getting another S doesn't make sense as it will be living on the streets and Ive seen a few round me, 02-04 plates with rear arch rust problems so in reality the same will happen with any S I buy before too long.

Even if you weld in new arches, living in the rain mean that it will inevitably return at the join. Re-coating the bare shell electrophoretically is prohibitively expensive. So you're probably right.

Yes, it's the S-bends that I invariably 'get lost' in and reverse out. Last one was at Bedford Autodrome, shortly after dispatching an Accord Type-R...