Another Hardtop

I got another hard top from Spitfire Graveyard £75. Its in much better shape though not as solid as originally thought.
Here are some pics as it was when I got it and of it cleaned and having had some hammer work done to it. Some of the damage was quite sever and hidden with filler.

Hardtop

I collected the hardtop today which I won on eBay last night for the princely sum of £5.50 :)

I know it looks pretty bad and I am wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew here.
So the first thing to do is remove all the glass and quaterlights along with the headlining and rubbers.
I will be keeping the headling to use a template at a later date.
One everything was removed I was then able to attack it with the angle grinder (combo of flap disc and wire wheel). As you can see it is much worse condition then it appeared at the start. (still for a fiver not bad lol)

You can clearly see the passenger quarterlight area is pretty well shot, this needs some serious work.

And the drivers side is just as bad, I got some learning to do here ha ha, bearing in mind that I have never really welded and certainly never welded anything that would be visible.
I am going to need to bend and shape metal to about 70% of each side area here and weld it in. I was contemplating drilling out the spot welds and fabrication complete sections, but since this is never going to be structural and used for only 5 months of the year I have decided that I will cut out and tidy up and but weld in new metal.
I am going to need a little help with how some areas need to look however as I simply don't know.

And finished

Really love how these have turned out
Its amazing how wheels can totally transform the look of a car and although I have the same wheel the look is very different.

 Below you can see how different the front and rear wheels are and to add to this my spare has a larger tyre o0

2 wheels on my wagon

painted up now, I also decided to paint the centre caps black and I think they really set it them off nicely.

The left is a before and the right after.
Tomorrow I hope to get the rear ones done.
I often wondered why my vanity rings were proud on the front wheels and have today found out why.
On the rear I have the larger rims commonly found on the GT6 these are 13 x 5" J whilst the fronts are 13 x 4.5" J

Wheels

My wheels are in dire need of sprucing up so I decided to give them a clean and paint.
1 down 4 to go.
This is a before

And this is after

I can't make my mind up to just clean the centre caps or paint them black. They would have been black back in 72, these ones are from a later car.