The other side has seen some grinder action too.
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Another culprit and often overlooked area - bottom of the A-post.
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The fuel tank has been dropped and the floor cleaned up...
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...with the boot floor section left to sort out.
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Meanwhile, I decided to take a look at my very low mileage XU9J4Z 405 Mi16 engine I bought back in 2007...
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...that has been removed out of an 405 Mi16x4, crashed 10 years earlier, in 1997, with only 35 thousand kilometers on the clock!
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Back at the panel beater's, the car has had most of the major body work done.
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Facial reconstruction surgery complete. The red arrows are there to sway your attention towards removable lower section, for ease of maneuvering the engine in at a later date.
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The Automatic bonnet has seen better days, but I'm very happy to see it on the car none-the-less!
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Some crude work has been done on the exterior too.
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The doors are rather rippled, but it will all be sorted out, when the time comes.
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The hole in the floor patched, along with a few more in the front arches.
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The car stayed at the bodyshop for some finishing touches while I was on a tour around Bosnia - filling the car up with various 205 parts, including another (and hopefully better) Auto bonnet!
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Also, I dug these wheels out, that I had purchased a while ago...
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...with an intention of making a transportation device for a bare 205 shell, heavy parts such as engines and apparently cyclists too :-).
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On the last day of 2013, I got the car back, fully rust-free and ready to go to the painters. I've even had to rent out yet another garage, as the old one got filled with all sorts of parts in the mean time!
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