Red Rallye resto

[Ben_w]

Rallye update time, although it's far from dramatic, doesn't contain much new and involves me grinding (form an orderly queue ladies… )

First job this morning was clean the Insignia in and out, and take photos for the Autotrader ad. Done, Autotrader ad now live.

Then it was out with the grinder and time to take a pew on the front wheels stacked up in the engine bay!

Not much to show, and I'll go into a few details in a minute but left it looking like this.



Getting there, slowly. I'm trying to do as much of the bare metalling as I can to keep any blasting costs down.

I took the driver side engine mount off. Doesn't look too bad. Need to finish removing the paint to check for any cracks but didn't look bad. You can certainly see where the washer sat.



The next couple of pics (and I think a lot of previous ones where the failure of the underseal allowing water ingress), i think serve to prove that any 306 restoration will need a significant element of bare metalling. It's everywhere, to one extent or another.





Now this bit doesnt look right. If i didn't know better, I'd say this had some kind of repair work when the car had its front end bump.







Again, some clear failure of some of the coatings/sealants, although accident damage may be the reason here.