Amazon: Freebie Amazon project

[Gordon Hunter]

After a strange course of events, I ended up taking on a rather poorly '68 131.
The conditions imposed by 'her indoors' that led to KDX 898F securing prime space in my workshop for the last year were that the car had to be restored from bits I found in the loft, the workshop or stuff I could make myself. Well, naturally I've 'slightly' stretched the boundaries of those conditions, but in spirit have kept to them.
So I find myself a year later having got awfully deep into what was going to be a light 'get it through an MOT' project. In a bid to put some kind of pressure on myself to get the darn thing finished and commisioned as 'Dad's taxi' I'm hoping that posting regular progress reports on the forum will motivate me enough to get on with it.
I have designated Tuesdays as 'Amazon day' so hope you will enjoy watching it progress and of course I will welcome any comments (constructive please!), hints, tips or suggestions.
I am very grateful for Iain Jennings help in some of the trickier fabrications.

I have already tackled the front end but here was roughly the starting point...

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We made a new chassis leg out of 1.5 mm sheet and incorporated the original steering idler bolt strengthening spacer as this had no rot...

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I gas welded the new section in, keeping the engine crossmember in place as a datum for alignment. This will get removed later on...
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More later...