What did you do to your Marina today?

[lock1506]

Hope I get rid of some stuff, quarter panels for Josh.

[First-Car as Marina]

Thought this may be interesting for some people.

Not a Marina I was working on today but my '98 Peugeot Partner van I now use daily. My brother helped me strip it yesterday evening and today and I got on with the welding. It's got its MOT coming up in November and I was told last year if I didn't weld the inner wings and scuttle panel it would fail this year. So I spent the day doing that . Need to finish the scuttle panel but the inner wings are done (they were worse than I thought ).

Although it only cost £250 from an auction and I've spent about the £200 on bits for it, its only let me down on a knackered brake pipe and seeing as I've done 17,000 miles in it in a year, it's doing me well. Technically it's not cost effective to do the repairs I'm doing with the time and resources I'm using but I like to break the rules .

I didn't get a picture of the other side completely welded with the hole cut for the screenwash bottle as it was getting dark. We just need to rebuild it all now and it'll be ready for work Monday, otherwise REW will be in use for a few days. I'll need to drill a few holes for nuts and bolts to hold things on as a lot were seized and wouldn't budge. Then it needs a long overdue service (oil, filters, plugs, coolant, brake service, etc, etc), a clean inside and out, wheels painting (done 2/4 last year so its been looking odd for a while) and it'll be back up to scratch .

[MarinaCoupe]

Some things don’t change do they? Moderns can rust just as bad as Marinas, and in 1/4 of the time.

[Morris McKinnon]

Good job on the van Alex Modern cars can rust badly. The type of rot I see on newer cars is the kind of rot you usually see on metalwork near docks and harbors or rusty ships, like layers of crispy wafers! Very bad quality metal.

[PHUQ]

Some things don’t change do they? Moderns can rust just as bad as Marinas, and in 1/4 of the time.

I hate to make you feel old Chris but Alex's van is 20 years old now, it's not doing too badly really! Some "moderns" (Ford Ka, Mazda MX5 Mk1 & Mk2 as a couple of prime examples, plus most commercials for some reason) rot pretty spectacularly but they tend to be the exceptions rather than the rule these days.

[First-Car as Marina]

You're right there Chris, I'm surprised how it rotted out like it had. All I can think of is mud got trapped between the wheel tub liners and body and with the wet just rotted it.

Cheers Gareth . That's what it looks has happened yeah, although it was probably parked on the sea bed . I must admit, I've seen a lot of rough body cars near the coast just because of the salt everywhere.

You're right there Matt, I've seen the cars you've said come past me and be hanging, especially Mercedes Sprinters/Ford Transits. But yeah, this one seems to be hanging on and is solid everywhere else..I think .

Well no rest for the wicked on Sunday as after Peterborough I finished sorting the van and me and my brother rebuilt it with just enough daylight left and I was able to use it Monday .

Annoyingly, as with all my cars, when I fix one thing, something else goes wrong. I was coming back from work Tuesday when someone overtook me stupidly fast and threw up a stone at the windscreen and cracked it . I've looked it up and it'll be an MOT fail with the size and where it is . So I've bought a repair kit on eBay with promising reviews and we'll see what happens .

Alex

[Morris McKinnon]

Cleaned up a couple of wheels today, found some old hub center caps and thinking of changing the look on TDT for a bit. They look great, but again, every wheel paint I buy is either too silver or too gray

[david painter]

That looks good what diameter are those Morris wheel cap badges please
Dave

[Morris McKinnon]

The cups are 5cm along the front face and 7cm at the back, the badge is 41mm. I was going to use them for the TC wheels I have but they don't fit those.

[david painter]

Ta for that my centre cap badges are about 40 mm only got some Minilite ones to go on but prefer the Morris ones may I ask where you got them from Dave

[Morris McKinnon]

I can't quite remember to be honest. Either a car boot sale or eBay, been in my shed for years. I used a fabric tape measure which has a bit of stretch so they are probably 40 mm then.

[david painter]

Thank you did look on ebay the other day without any luck
Dave

[Morris McKinnon]

They're pretty old, 1970's? Lusso is a name of a Ferrari I think

Speedwell was another brand I've seen, I do see them on eBay sometimes but they always seem to be Ford fittings.

[david painter]

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Ok thanks for that I was looking for just the cap badge. Cant find anything listed at present the nearest I have found is a Marina Gear Knob badge correct diameter but he only has two
Dave

[Morris McKinnon]

You can buy those blank in all sizes. Domed resin badges. Print out the sticker you want and glue it from behind. I did one for my key fob which was missing the resin badge.