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Well that minor bit of surface rust escalated rapidly! A really good chat with Mike Satur and now waiting for the parts to allow repair to continue

That looks crunchy

I don't think I've ever heard anyone involved in motor car restoration say " it's nowhere near as bad as it looked, in fact if I left it it would probably heal on its own".

All fixed! Only took 6 months, still ready for the summer. Oh! Never mind.

Congratulations a great achievement.
Gorgeous looking.

Mike Satur's repair panels are really good, I did the two rear sills and they fit really well, however the two front ones are now beginning to rear their ugly head so a job for 2024. When I bought our TF the sills looked pristine, amazing how someone welded a rusty patch to rusty sill then got filler to cover it up. Now that you have repaired it and presumably rustproofed it then you have a car ready for another twenty years plus. A good job well done.

Nice job Moggie, I was planning on exploring the rust on my passenger side and hoping to use one of Mikes repair panels. I was curious if you replaced the section in the first picture you show ? ( the inside of the end of the sill )

Did you use a small bit of filler to smooth the top joint on the repair panel ?

On my drivers side I'll be replacing the front sill and rear wing to address some seat belt dents, wing small wing dent and significant sill edge rust so a professional will be used there.

Then moving to full respray next year

I bought a full set of panels from Mike Satur. They've all been fitted, fettled, filled and painted. Now having had it back from the paint shop a week I'm chasing a fault with the clutch hydraulics... Bl#&*y car!

Bleeding the clutch can be a bit arduous due to the way the pipe from the master cylinder to the slave cylinder runs . It is best done with an assistant but the pedal will stick down after the first press. You will have to manually lift the pedal after each and every push down if that makes sense. Air tends to get stuck in the pipe and in the end of the master cylinder but just persevere and you will get there . You may have to consider fitting a new slave cylinder as they are in an often neglected and awkward place .