Q835XSC - Dutton Legerra Series 2

[Adrian Southgate]

So, collected last weekend and the first chance I get to go over it we have snow / hail / rain and gales... lovely if your a penguin I guess...

Q835XSC purchased from the factory in 1988, completed in 1990, stored for the winter in 1991 and there it sat for 22 years, possibly one of the saddest Legerras I have ever seen apart from my black one.

It was rough, body panels off, windscreen missing and a sorry case of 4 wheel drum brakes... 

Today it got a wash, nothing special just caravan cleaner and a sponge but an improvement on fungus and moss...

Hell of a job on here lads, starting with a body off chassis check, bushes and bolts and some refurb bits fresh from the sand blasting cabinet.

I will be posting more detail on Mr G's but major updates will be copied onto here too.

[Adrian Southgate]

I'm currently waiting for the wall between the two units to be completed so I can use all the space, at the moment I have to leave the left side clear so they can scaff up and finish off. If I have the heater on it means I'm heating three or more units, again not ideal.

[Adrian Southgate]

I can get four 'dutton' sized cars in but that leave me no room at all for parts and only just enough room to get up the sides of them. It sounds a lot but it really isnt enough to work on more than one at a time.

I'm only keeping the green one indoors until the body dries out and I can mop it back then I can get it back in the drive and give me some work space back. 

If Patrick gets his backside in gear and comes for this shell  then I get more room back. If push comes to shove I can drop the white shell back on the chassis once the welding is done. I have theories about this mezzanine floor but I know it will get 'loaded' so can't just use shelving... Scaffolding would be nice.

[John Allen]

I'm so jealous. I can just swing an earwig in my garage. Garages near me cost a fortune, well more than the boss allows.

[Steve Kerswell]

That's a real Dutton Cave :-))

[Adrian Southgate]

Right, so despite yesterday being a day out I did manage to sneak round and take these...

You can see the chassis from the white one buried under the phaeton nose on the left. Steel for the bracing ordered (£11) Steel for the ARB brackets ordered (£4) so I doubled up and ordered for both cars.

Until I can get a second floor fitted I have a big stack of bits on the floor. Suns out, time to go and look at the pile and tut...

[Adrian Southgate]

Cheers Glenn. I ache lots.... 

Seems my neighbours do performance german cars (not porka's) at one end and at the other end may be a new chap who does racing porka's... Next door is a welder (vehicle strengthening for rally / race prep) so should be good to get the chassis modifications seam welded... must be better than my bodges.

[Adrian Southgate]

Thats a serious amount of pallets when they are 30 high in places.

[Adrian Southgate]

Geeez...

Oh well, heres a photo for you... The red arrow is the awkward pallet yard.. the white arrow is the unit.

I do have a photo of the unit but it's before I started sorting the boxes of parts out.

[Adrian Southgate]

I did ask the pallet yard if I could have a pile of four or five pallets to stand the body on... he said monday, i said don't bother. They have half an acre of used pallets in stacks 30 high (or more) hells bells you can see them on google earth...

[Adrian Southgate]

Well at some point I will have it dangling from a crane, maybe I can use big fishing scales or a pallet truck with weighing facilities.

It started to rain before I took pictures and I had to get the green one in to stop it getting wet, now everything is obstucted so photo's will have to wait until next weekend.