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Drive, drive, drive, drive, drive, drive. What's going on? Drive. What do we get? Some letters.
AutoAlex's Lotus Carlton undergoes extensive rust repair and restoration with expert help, revealing the car's legendary history and challenges.
Key Takeaways
- The Lotus Carlton is a legendary, fast car with a complex steel structure prone to rust.
- Rust repair requires removing all rotten material and carefully welding in new steel patches.
- Proper tools and expert knowledge are crucial for effective restoration.
- The car’s history adds cultural and mechanical significance to the restoration.
- Restoration projects often reveal more work than initially expected.
What the video covers
- The video features AutoAlex's Lotus Carlton, a rare and fast steel car with a notorious history linked to high-speed heists in the 1990s.
- The car suffers from extensive rust damage, requiring detailed steelwork and panel replacement.
- Experts Bob and Rob assist in diagnosing and repairing rusted chassis and body panels, including inner skins and sills.
- The restoration process involves cutting out rotten metal, welding new patches, and applying rust treatment.
- The Lotus Carlton's unique background includes modifications by Lotus in the UK and a powerful engine producing 377 horsepower.
- The video highlights the challenges of working with rust on steel cars and the importance of proper MOT certification.
- A visit to Martin Robi factory showcases traditional manufacturing techniques for Jaguar and Jensen parts.
- The team uses specialized tools like the arc droid for precise panel fabrication.
- The restoration is a long and complex job, with unexpected additional rust found during the process.
- The video includes a sponsored segment about hair loss treatment by Voy.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and MOT Issue
- 00:53Lotus Carlton History and Specs
- 03:02Initial Inspection and Rust Diagnosis
- 04:03Rust Repair Process Begins
- 06:25Additional Rust and Challenges
- 09:10Manufacturing Panels at Martin Robi
- 12:02Panel Fabrication and Welding Techniques
- 17:25Progress Update and Further Repairs
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Speaker A
What do you mean letters? Where's the cash? Well, I couldn't find it. What cash? What are you doing?
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Just... Why aren't you driving? Look, the car doesn't have an MOT. I'm not driving anywhere. Listen, why are you driving? Why don't you have cash?
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Well, I could have got some parcels. Did you think you were robbing a post office?
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Yes. It's a male default. Could have at least told me you were committing robbery.
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Well, you didn't. If you didn't know we were committing robbery, why are you wearing a balaclava?
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I always wear this when I'm driving. All right. Can we just get out of here?
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No. This car doesn't have an MOT, and I would never drive a car without an MOT.
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That's illegal. How are we going to get out of here then? We're going to have to push it.
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Wow. Shine. So, we're here with Mr. Alex Kirstston from Auto Alex channel, and we're going to be fixing his Lotus Carlton.
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Yes. Tell me about it. Tell me about it. So, the Lotus Carlton is an Opel Omega.
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I know. You're telling me. It's a... It's a steel car. Yeah. Steel. Steel. Okay, steel car, and it was made in Germany and then modified by Lotus in the UK, and it goes really fast, and it's a bit of a legendary car, apparently. Um
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and it's rusty, so I have to fix it. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, yeah, that's a short version. The abridged version of the history of this vehicle.
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That's all that matters to me. Steel rust. Germany steel rust. There we go. Fix, man. Fix steel rust. But for those people who do want to know, the Lotus Carlton was made infamous back in the '90s when it was involved in a string of
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high-speed heists. Producing nearly 377 horsepower, it was able to reach 180 mph, which was significantly faster than anything the police had at the time, making this the choice vehicle for the most infamous criminals of the day. A gang that for about 2 or 3 months were
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stealing alcohol and cigarettes from local shops. And they even stole alcohol and cigarettes from a shop opposite the police station.
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And there's a report of a police officer coming out and being like, "Yeah, the only thing we saw when we ran out of the police station was a cloud of dust." Yeah.
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Brilliant. So, yeah. And then that car, the number plate is 40 RA. Then the police started using police helicopters, and then the guys were like, you know what? This...
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We've had our fun. So then they dumped the car in the canal, and then it got run over by a barge.
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That's like the most English story ever. It's got the diff from a V8 Commodore because GM used to own Holden, Lotus, Opel, and obviously Chevrolet.
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Just it's a bit of a parts special, really. Very cool. Do it for you anymore now, or you still...
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Yeah. No, I'm... I'm enjoying learning about cars and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Right, let's get it lifted up and see what I have to do.
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There's a lot of travel in that suspension. Yeah. Wow. So, obviously we need to take the arch off at the front. It's just a bolt behind the Lotus badge. But here's your first little look at it.
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And yes, we are jacked up on the rust. Yeah. Yeah. It's rotten on the inside as well.
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Yeah. Yay. Yay. It's fine. It's fine. These are words that I want to hear from Bob. Yay. And it's fine. I just want to throw in here that I don't do steel work for anybody apart from that man.
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There you go. So, don't ask me to. But if you do, it's £15 an hour. If you've got a rotten MX5, bring it in for sales. He can do it in 2 hours, can't you? 30 quid. 30 quid repair. Because he
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just loves the job so much. Oh, yeah. I'll invoice you the rest of it.
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The other side's been done. The other side is solid. Okay, cool. So, we can take inspiration.
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Easy. Easy. Yeah. Well, it's work. Like everything's just a bit of work. I grind it, cut out all the rusty stuff, give it a clean, give it a weld, then spray some rust treatment all over it because otherwise
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newspaper filler covers over it so that it's been done. I have a lift crawling around the ground.
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Okay. So, under here is the sill. It's like under the bottom of the doors. And when the wheel spins, it flicks all the road salt and stuff onto this area. So, this is a pretty common area for rot
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and rust on a steel car. So, I shouldn't be able to put my hand up into here. And not only is the outside rotten, a bit of the chassis on the inside is rotten as well. So, we need to
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cut away all the rotten material back to where it's good and then rebuild all this shape. Whether we buy a part and weld it in or we make it fresh from fresh material, I don't know yet.
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We'll see once we've got it all cut out. So, the first job is expose everything, cut it all out, see what we're dealing with, and then start rebuilding it.
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There's a bit you've missed because there's a bit I've not mentioned. It's that bit as well in there. There was lots of bathroom sealant and just goodness, fiberglass, and all of your favorites.
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Oh, so that might need just looking at over there on that side as well.
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So, it's three times the job I thought it was. Yeah. Okay. But it'll be fine. There's nothing you can't fix, right?
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There's lots of stuff I don't want to fix though. And here I am. Right. I'm going to take the front wheel off.
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Okay. As you can see, there's a heap of work to do. So, as Alex takes the first few panels off, I'll get my flex tools together. Ready to start work.
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Is that fabulous? I'm going to say no. It doesn't sound like steel. Oh, no. It's definitely not steel. No.
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Cars are so silly. Do you trust me with your car? Let's just stick to what I know best.
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Metal. He said it just keeps on going. Oh no, he's actually blown a hole through my ship.
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There's a thin layer of rust on top of the thick layer of rust. Yeah, found some steel. Car's like, "Nope, you've made good progress so far. We have got some solid steel there." So, um, and then just yeah,
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I'm not even looking at... I keep forgetting about that. Yeah, sorry. I keep reminding you.
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Thanks, Bob. So, bye-bye. I need your attention. I'm 36 now, and I'm very lucky that I still got all of my own hair. And honestly, I want to keep it that way. Rather than waiting for me to have a hair loss issue, I'd
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And thanks to Voy for helping me keep my hair for another few years. Now, back to the video. So, Alex has left me to it.
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And there's loads and loads of cleaning up to do because we need to see exactly how bad this car is. I think this has just turned into a long job.
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So, we're here to fix this, this little bit of a hole. I've just noticed because I've not been looking in that area, but see all that.
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Oh my God. Yeah, that's a bit of a hole, isn't it? And it's right by the fuel tank. So, I can't weld there without taking the fuel tank out. Need to take the bumpers off.
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More rust. And more rust means more repairs. The first task, the inner chassis rail. This won't take too long to repair, but I've called in the big guns just to speed things up.
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This is the bigger, better version of Bob. This is Rob. And Rob's here to help us take off all the body panels that are in the way, including the exhaust and the fuel tank.
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So, I've made this. This is one of the inner skins from the structure of the chassis. So, as we cut out this skin, this is the new skin to go back into lik...
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in on top of this once this is all welded. And that one will go this way like that.
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And then we can weld across the top around the sides. And then we'll get all this square. So once that's pushed in there, this will all be parallel. Weld around each side. And then we've got some gaps and stuff that we can put our
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uh rust converter and sealant in after. Then we're on to making the outer seal, which needs to be really nice. But we'll get the structure done first. This is the strong bit. That's the uh nicy bit, the pretty bit.
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Mhm. So, we've got three layers of material. We've got the back chassis piece. We've got the outer panel coming down like that. And we've got our new panel like that. What I'm going to do is weld these two together, but I'm going to have the
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amps high enough that will weld into the third section, the chassis leg behind it as well. I used a little flex stack box to put my welder in. That's so clever.
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Genius. Best thing I ever did. So, we have the first few bits tacked in. That is the chassis. That's the structure. The chassis bit on the inside is all welded. And I just need to weld that. But before we weld that, let's go
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down to a place just down the road, about 10 minutes away from here, that presses panels. Now, I know that you can get replacement sills and bits and pieces for these, but it's like a 3 or 4 day lead time. I need to get this car
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back to Alex. So, we're going to go down to a place that presses panels and see if we can buy some from them.
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I'm here at a place called Martin Robi where they manufacture Jaguar, Jensen, and other parts from scratch. They were kind enough to show me around the factory and show me how they manufacture panels and parts in old school
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techniques. So this is the panel just before it goes to paint. So it's been through the press. He's pinned all the edges over and it's actually quite strong. Little bit of flex in it, but all these edges here have been bent over like that will
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give it a lot of rigidity. The boys working here are kind of like you can tell that they've been doing it for a very long time or kind of over it. But I'm absolutely fascinated by this. So this is a door stiffener panel for a
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Mars miner. Now it looks quite simple and you'd think that oh they just draw it out on CAD and then put it through a load of machines and it works. But it's never that simple. So see this bow in
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it. So that actually takes a lot of effort. So when they're actually doing the tooling for these, the tooling will be simple. It'll be this hole here, this hole here, this hole here, and then they'll put it through the machine and
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see how it comes out. Once you put all these savages into it, it deforms the material and will knot it open different ways. So it could come out twisted, it could come out flat, it could come out bent. And then you need to readjust your
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tooling after that to account for that. So if it bends 5 mil this way, and it shouldn't, you need to set up your tooling 5 mil the other way to account for that. So a part just as simple as
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this takes hours and hours and hours and tens of thousands of pounds of tooling costs just to get right. This is a rare and special piece of equipment. So after it comes out of the press, this laser threeaxis laser machine will actually
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move around and cut all these intricate shapes out of that panel. That just takes, you know, literally days and days of work off each job. I've never actually seen one of these in real life.
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I've had parts made by them, but I've never seen one. Do you know what it is, though? What it will do to make that rapid?
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So this is an engine frame. Engine frame. Yeah. So, we take all the parts that have been I presume all these tubes are laser cut as well.
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No, they've done on by hand for sure. Oh, awesome. Wow. And then we take the parts and we put them into this jig here and that'll hold everything in place for where it needs to be. And then um they
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use a type of welding called brazing. That's not technically it's not welding at all, but it is um using brass. And what you do is you heat the steel up to the melting temperature of the brass and then the brass sticks to the steel. Um
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here's some examples of it here. And Adam said he's going to teach me how to braze because that's one thing I can't do. So if you teach me how to braze steel, I'll teach you how to weld aluminium.
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Yeah, I'll deal with that. I'll deal with that then. Not bad. That's awesome. Fair play. Can I just say with those glasses on, you do actually look like dog the bounty hunter.
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I've never seen one of these in real life before. So, how it's working, there's a motor over here that gets spinning that big flywheel up there.
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Once that's up to speed, the clutch joins the flywheel to the machine and then makes the press punch down on top of the part. There's probably thousands of kilos of energy in there just to press out each one of those panels. This
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isn't even the biggest machine. So, thank you very much for bringing us around the factory. It's really really interesting to see all the uh like it's so old school. is like it's done. I was expecting to see all machines, machines,
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machines, but there's so much hands-on stuff. Like, it's a good mix between the two. So, we are rebuilding or doing a few panel repairs on a Lotus Carlton.
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Can you show me where the Lotus Carlton parts are? We don't do Lotus Carlton, unfortunately. We can make them up for you, but obviously you'd be looking at tooling costs or having them handmade, so it's um it's a matter of price.
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Okay. Time? Couple of weeks, I'd imagine, unless you wanted it to. So, not by this evening.
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No. Okay. Right. I thought looks like we're making everything by hand, but it was nice to see everything anyway. Thank you very much and uh be really proud of what you do. It's really, really interesting.
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Okay. So, turns out that they only do very, very specific panels, not the ones that we need for these. But, it was fun to learn about it. Anyway, so that does mean that I'm going to have to hand
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fabricate all of this and make it look like Opal. Yeah. No, it's not. Yeah. The way Opal did when they made this car first. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. We still have to finish the repair on the
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inside. There's a few panels we have to make up. So, let's crack on. So that's the inner chassis done. So now we hand it over to Rob to pull the fuel tank out. The next job sits uncomfortably close to it. So the next
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step is to try and copy this profile here. So the shape of this has got all these foldy bits and bends and radiuses and stuff here. First thing I do, got a strip like this. And then I copy the
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profile. So a bit of a radius there, bit radius there. So that's the first one.
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And then there is a bend. This is all very inaccurate on a very thin piece of steel. And this is uh just so I can, you know, manipulate and copy and change it around as much as I want to if I get it
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wrong before I commit to making the full thing. It's easier to handle an inch than a foot. You could use a piece of welding wire. It probably would be a lot easier.
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But this was in my pocket. It was literally in my pocket. So that'll get us close enough. Now we can transfer that over to the bender. So essentially that small piece gives us a pattern to follow. That means we don't
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waste any metal. Let's go see how this fits. Oh, look. It fits perfectly. First time I didn't even need to readjust it six times.
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So, this red mark here isn't actually real. It's actually a laser. But where's the laser? We've got the arch coming down like that. And we can tell from the other side that keeps this radius coming down onto this here. So,
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this is the mark that we're going to make. We've lined our laser level up.
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It's a very clever way of doing it. Lazy. So now I need to make this little square um out of this. So I'll pop that in there. And then so this gully here is going to have to come out and then form
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into something like this. I don't really know what the shape is, but we can check the other side. uh just to figure out what it looks like. But I'll need to take that need to take that skirt off.
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And there's nothing there. What do you mean? This is when we realized the other side was rotten, too.
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He said the side was done. The other side's been done. The other side is is solid.
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Okay. Oh no, there's actually a massive hole. So, two problems. One, there's even more rust to fix. Now, I don't know what shape the other seal should be cuz there's no silver and twice as much work.
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That's so much worse than we were expecting. There's no point worrying about the other side at the moment. We still have the other side to complete. We have to make the part by hand and just go with what looks right for now.
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This job has turned into like so much more work than we're expecting it to be.
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We did think it was just going to be this area. Now it's this whole arch and all the mess in there and probably the same on the other side. So, it was meant to be going tomorrow and we've only got
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like one little bit of one half a job done. Uh it's like 4 million degrees here right now. Um, and I'm not making any progress. So, there's going to be a lot of late nights and it's a lot easier
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to work at at night time as well because it's kind of cool and manageable. So, let's get stuck in. Rob is getting on with forming some new patches, making sure everything lines up the rear bumper.
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If you're wondering who this guy is, this is Harry from Reform Automotive. He's going to help me out. And Harry is the master of steel. I've called him in to help me out with the other side. And Rob has started rooting out all the rot.
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And as you can see, it's a lot worse than everybody thought. And with all hands on deck, we've cracked on getting this car sorted and solid once again.
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Yeah, that's going to have to go back further cuz we're going to we need to get into this. I mean, this goes back far back.
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You want to be going to about there. Okay. So, you got to cut that much more off.
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Yeah. Oh my god. The inside of this here is just non-existent. So there's no point in doing the outer and without making sure that this is all solid in here.
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At least then we can get to it properly. And what do you reckon? We just build the structure. So we replicate the inter internal bit. We put the internal and then a skin on the outer.
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Yeah. Excellent. That's replicate this as best we can. Yeah. I try to keep all the things now.
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So yeah, while they've been cutting that away, I've been setting up a new tool to help us get through this a lot quicker.
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We need to cut some really complicated shapes out of a piece of steel. Fastest way to do that is to break out the CAD cardboard aided design. And I'm going to show you how to use our new machine.
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This is our new Arc Droid from Extreme Plasma. And let's show you what it can do. So, we got our complicated shape.
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Put it down on our piece of cardboard. Turn the pen on. This is the only thing I learned in school that I actually still use.
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Like using scissors. Yeah. Safely. They taught us not to run with scissors. Oh, I had the special ones. I was left-handed, so I had the yellow and green ones.
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Felt so cool. Are you left-handed? Yeah. Me and Gareth Gates. The only thing I share with a celebrity is Miley Cyrus kind of do this really weird thing where our eye Cyrus can do that. We take our cardboard
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cutout and we lay it down on a piece of sheet metal. Now this thing, this is called an arc droid. This is supplied by Extreme Plasma in Glouester. We've got our stylus here. We press our pattern down. We try not to let our pattern
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move. Lower the stylus down and we simply move it around to the edge. Every time it touches an edge, we press the button and it plots it out on here.
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The more points, the more accurate it will be. But if you got long spans, we can jump ahead and it will average it all out for you.
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We put our plasma torch on. This machine is going to be great for us to make all the patterns that we need super fast. And we didn't waste any time getting the parts done we needed.
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While I've been playing with that, let's go see how Rob has been getting on with the rust. Oh, just up in the can of worms, mate.
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Is the Is it even worse? No, you're No, you you're all right there. All we're going to have to really do is make this section here and up with the 90 factory to match that. So, what we'll do when we make
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this section here, we measure it up and drill the holes. So we can plug the plug or spot weld it.
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Whichever's going to be easier. So shall I just cut it there underneath or on top of it? Maybe on top of it.
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Right. Yeah. If I cut it along the top of this line here, if you can try and keep that feature in to match the rest of it.
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Knowing we finally found the end of the rust, we can get back to work and have this car back with Alex in a few more days.
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We thought we got it all, but the more we expose, the more rust we found. But it's in the right place with the right people. And our mission is to get this finished.
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Update time. Harry has done most of this side now. So, we've fixed all the inside of the arches here. We fixed down here and we fixed this beautiful work. Um, the next thing to do is in around this
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filler cap. And we have found about a/2 in of filler. And I say it's not a/ an inch, it's like a/4 in. What's that? 6 mil of filler. enough to be slightly concerning, isn't it?
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Yeah. So, we have asked Alex if he wants to sort out, but that would mean replacing this whole panel. We can't get these panels. So, it's not rusty. We could just let the painters at it, fill it up, and get on with life. But now is
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the time to fix it if it does need fixing. Now, before anybody else starts barking at us about rust treatment, we do have this bottle of magic stuff here.
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So, we're going to spray this inside the arches, inside these sills, and inside anywhere we think there might be rust.
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And this is going to sit on top of the rust and then neutralize. It's going to kill it all the way through the rust and then we can paint on top of that after.
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So, I'm going to finish this area in here around the filler cup and Harry's going to go to the other side and tackle that.
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Harry, talk to me. Well, previous repairs. Unfortunately, when I've been digging this area out here so that I could start making a pattern piece for the end of this sill, it's quite here.
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It carried on growing and bit like that. Nice mounted there. Great success. How far up do you think it goes? Is it the same on the other side?
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Uh, I'm pretty sure it stops about there. Okay, that's not too bad, right? Well, it's bad. But it's okay.
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Luckily, we can make that all out of one nice piece. Thanks, Alex. Yeah. Cheers.
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Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. What are you doing? Well, somebody went on holiday and while you're on holiday, I had to seal all this with with body steel to stop it going rusty again. So, that's why you see all this mucky, horrible stuff. And
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I'm just taking it off for the benefit of the audience to see all the work that we've done for the video.
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For the video, for the views. But while we're here, let me show you exactly what we've done. So, all of this is all new. Looks a little bit rough, but it doesn't matter. It's going to be get covered in uh sealant
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and sloppy stuff anyway. Just very much like what Lotus did. Um the reason it's a little bit sloppy looking is because we are welding to like old paint and old material and it's just a bit difficult trying to get things lined up and stuff
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and you're upside down. But we dress it back, make it as look as perfect as possible. And it is 100%. It is solid.
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Yeah, it looks like it's been a lot of work. Yes, it's been days and days and days and days and days of work. Um, and this was all mashed in as well in a previous crash and we've pulled all that out and
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uh it shouldn't need as much filler now. There was about 8 to 10 mil of filler.
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It should just need a very little skim now just to cover over some of the welding marks and the grinder marks and the paint doesn't take care of that. So, this is going for pain to believe after it leaves machine shop. I am so glad
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that is over. We have been welding for days, cutting for days, cleaning for days. Uh, it's done. It's solid. So, let's get Alex over to see what he thinks.
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All right. So, what was supposed to take Bob 2 days to actually get fixed up was a 2 week absolute mammoth effort. So, to Bob, thank you so much for pi.
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Come here. As I was saying, Bob, thank you so much. The work that you have done is incredible. You've had it for two weeks and I brought you quite a rusty Lotus Carlton.
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The other side's been done. The other side is is solid. We did know that this side was quite bad. Uh but the sill extends all the way to here. You've cut everything out.
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Everything is OEM. So, as it would have come out the factory, not only here the sill, also the wing, also into uh the fuel filler cap area as well.
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It still needs an awful lot of work, but this car is absolutely solid on this side. And then if we go into the other side, Bob found some more issues. That side we knew was rotten. This side we
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didn't know was rotten. But if you poke your head down here, all of this is also new, completely solid because it was all completely rotten. Behind the wheel arch as well has all been redone. And um yeah, like I said, it was supposed to be
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two days, ended up to be two weeks. So I'm absolutely over the moon. Because of Bob, this car can live on. We're going to get suspension on. We're going to get the turbos on. And then we are going to
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send it. And I'm so happy. Safe in the knowledge that this car has got many, many more years of life left in it because of you, Bob. Because of you. So, uh, yeah, thank you again. We now need
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to push this back into place. And, uh, we need to go and find that guy cuz he's supposed to be in there. I also forgot to mention that the fuel tank was also rusty. So, Bob, you took it out. You've
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cleaned it up and you've repainted it. So that again is completely fresh and OE quality. So again, thank you, Bob.
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