I’m determined to get the bodywork done in the next month or so, and set out today to prime the door that I had finished filling. The car was covered in dust, so it got wheeled out into the sunlight for a clean first. I was disspaointed to find the boot lid which I had cleaned up a few months ago was covered in surface rust. It’s my own fault for not doing things in a proper sequence. I gave it a good clean up with the orbital sander, then hung it from the roof ready to paint. A quick coat of etch primer went on with no issue or runs, which was a nice start. Chuffed with my success, I mixed up some high build primer, and started to paint. I hadn’t thinned it enough, so it left a rough finish. I quickly poured it back out, thinned it and finsihed the boot.

With that left to dry, I started cleaning the boot up. There was plenty of old seam sealer and muck stuck on there, so I got the worst of it off, and made sure all the rust was cleaned up. It’s going to have a carpet over it, so there’s no point going mental with it. I also cut off the spare wheel brackets as they were pretty ropey. I then re-did all the seams with sealer, and did inside the car as well as the boot. While it was drying, I got the slide hammer out and re-set the door pillar gap that I wasn’t happy with, and the boot lip. I then straightened the rear edge with a hammer, followed by a quick layer of fller to start re-shaping it as it’s had a hard life. Poppy was helping me at this point, so I put too much hardener in to make it pink, which she thought was great, but didn’t go on too smoothly! Plenty of sanding for me to do next week now. Last thing I did was hang the boot temporarily and put the car away. Feeling really positive about it all now.