A much needed restoration

All that lovely clean metal!! Fantastic. The prostrip method is SO appealing. However I have decided against it for the X19, purely for financial reasons. I have a Monte to restore next and I'll probably do it with that car. Can't be so extravagant as to do both!

I also have mine mounted on a Rotisserie. Where did you get yours? Have you braced the door apertures or just kept the doors on?

Keep up the good work!

If you look at the second picture down from the top you can see I have no bracing, the structure was pretty sound and I believe the X's strength is built in through the outer seals and central column...so I did not bother with any supporting bars. The doors do act as part of the strength when fully loaded. I think the chassis is a pretty robust structure. I did eventually more the car into the garage.

I decided to have it stripped purely because I was sick of seeing so many rust spots, I didn't feel I could keep on top of it all.

I purchased my rotisserie from a company called "Mk2mania" I think they mainly work on Ford Escorts, but when I spoke to them on the phone they were very helpful once I explained what I was working on...it cost £185 all in, very reasonable I thought.

Lets keep swopping ideas...I still a way to go, I'm currently working on the body work bit of plastic filler on the back end Oh what joy!!!!!!!

I think some times the cost of things can get out of control, that's why I try to find other means to replacing and repairing without compromising on originality where possible

When you said Monti...do you mean a Montecarlo.

Ok here's a few more pictures of my progress, I am at the stage where I'm working on the body work in preparation for painting.
So what you see here are the area's that I had to do first in order to drop the shell down onto a rolling frame...due to the lack of space I'm having to do jobs ass about face!!!

The underneath has been given two coats of the base colour, one coat of stone chip and a further two coats of the base colour.