S1 Rebuild(s)

[Dave Adams]

some pics of the rebuild process,

the top trailing arm bracket is broke......

the diff is sloping back a little (looking up) so that will need sorting.......

As you can see there isn't a lot of bracing in an S1 chassis, that will be sorted.

[Dave Adams]

I got to play with my car the whole weekend and in the warm sunshine as well.....

so i got busy prepping the body work for paint and got the first top coat on, same colour as last year as i have 2L of unused paint and at £30 a litre it needs using....

i got a nice Gun finish.....and a couple of runs on the spoiler Grrr Grrr well its got a week to harden off and then i will flat it off and give it a re-coat...

and i have been playing with the bonnet badge, since no one has asked for pewter copy's i haven't looked further into getting them made.....it would be easy to sort out though.

Looks OK i think.

[Dave Adams]

No one elce like my bonnet roundal?......i may start sulking........yeah well it ended up bigger than i planned but not by much, but it compares in size to the likes of BMW and VW so about right i think.

[Dave Adams]

Its based on the club badge. sierra mountains and a Phaeton (the horse).....“thort it were obvious init“

[Dave Adams]

I am not saying it is a club badge. i just thought that it might be an ida to have a badge (bonnet roundal) since dutton never made one, and a lot of the “7“ car clubs have one i thought we are as good as most of them and we have history. as no one was doing it i felt. ....why not?

[Dave Adams]

Ahhh. look at the club badge.....the red one used by some members of This site as an avatar or on the cover of DT.
I wasn't assuming you were “getting“ at me, i like a bit of banter.
The club badge was arrived at via a club competition some years ago when the club was formed.

[Paul Sheridan]

Dave, it looks like the horse has a very large .... odd shaped ...... Phallus hanging down between short stumpy legs.  Have always thought that about it, not just your one :-)

[Big Vern]

Dave,

" a Phaeton (the horse) " Umm Thought a Phaeton was the sporty two seat horse drawn number not the horse itself, it always tickled me when VW luanched there luxury limo named Phaeton. perhaps both me and wikipedia have it wrong ! (who would have thought wiki would be wrong :-))))

Theres a guy on ebay does 'dutton' tax discs and the like using the 'dutton' logo was planning to plagourise this for my steering wheel boss. 

Paul S.

Horses do have an odd shaped appendage :-0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave Adams]

once it has been explained to you the club badge makes sense and i thought quite ingenious.....

[Dave Adams]

For my steering wheel boss i used a Dutton wheel trim sticker.....
wiki on my phone says a 4 seat horse drawn vehicle......hmmmm.......
whatever, it still works as a sports vehicle drawn by horse(s) about a 100 in my case ;-)
I was led to believe that a phaeton was a breed of horse.....only having an interest in horses as steaks i wouldn't know and accepted the version given. ho-hum.

[Dave Adams]

another coat of paint and this is the "Gun Finish" i got ....quite happy

and.......

My car should be ready for MOT by the end of this next weekend.......hopefully.

[Big Vern]

That Sierra your too Dave?

Wish I had the facility to do a decent paint job :-(

[Adrian Southgate]

I am looking into the possibility of converting my garage at home into a part time spray booth. when I eventually get around to painting the leggy we will see how well it works.