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I keep an old wood chisel to use for the bitumen sound deadening stuff

I just wanted to say thank you for making a great video, it is informative, helpful and very entertaining. I’m looking at buying a TR7 and you’ve made me more enthusiastic to go ahead.

I'm loving this series, your metal folding is so impressive and your explanations really great. Plus this is a car worth saving I've got a Mk1 Rav4, which needs a bit of welding by the rear sill. The Rav4 triggered the (crossover) SUV movement (which has gone way too far - the isolation they provide from the 'dangerous roads' is just encouraging driving that makes them more dangerous!), maybe not something to celebrate! I'm wondering if the Matra Rancho was one of the inspiring factors in the Rav4 ... is it uni body or is the rear half chassis rails?

Annoying when that happens, we've all done it. Keep up the good work. Cheers Marty's projects 👍

Well done Martin great work as ever on the rancho and those panels are brilliant considering they are hand made and the originals were pressed from steel sheet (my dad was a press operator years back) so glad it is coming along and you can see the work you have put in already great tip about the freeze spray will have to look for some! All the best Daniel

As a fellow Matra owner ( 89 Espace Quadra ) just wanted to say how much I am enjoying this series. Shows what excellent work you can do with basic tools. It also motivates me to get on and start work on a rusty Mini that I have lurking behind my workshop. Thankfully it looks a lot better in the rust department than what you are tackling. Not having salted roads mean cars have lasted better in New Zealand than in my country of birth.

Nice work. I can't stand having the handle on my angle grinders

Nice to see some new metal going in! I find that quite a motivational boost when new bits are welded in

Lovely video, brings back memories of my childhood running around the Talbot garage where my dad was a mechanic. The Rancho and certainly the Bagheera, were so far ahead of their time.

This chanal and the Irish Esprit Stop Motion guy (soup) are my absolute favorites! Filmwise the soup guy is a bit better, but you easily catch up with your humor. Love your series, honestly. Greetings from a German lotus owner.

Your repair panels you have made are very impressive.your doing a great job.dont see many of them nowadays.i remember at school one of the other pupils parents having a red one.late 70s early 80s I woukd guess.

damn wish i knew about that freezer in a can, i spent hours chiselling away at my sound deadening 😂

good job

Nice work as usual. Plumbing pipe freezing spray also works. I've seen this done with dry ice too but that's not always easy to get hold of in the UK.

I can't help but admire your love for this quirky car. Being a Rancho you're obviously not doing it for the money.

"Beige carpet" 🤣 How fitting.

In 1976 traveling back home to the isle of man by train there was not one spare inch of ground not covered in plastic wrapped TR7's, please do not think that I mean a couple of hundred cars, there were too many to count several thousand and these were just the ones visible from my side of the train. I really don't think production numbers were the problem. Production quality more likely the issue. I closely inspected the first TR7 to arrive at the main Triumph dealership at Burgh heath Surrey. To say I was appalled would be an understatement panel fit and styling, were the first offences to the eye. I got in the car got down on the floor and checked under the dash and seats. Under the dash there was a wiring loom capable of running NASA never seen anything so ridiculous before but often since. I stuck my hand up to feel this monster and as I feared there must have been half a ton of copper. Cheap and nasty plastic mouldings featured heavily throughout the cab. Under the bonnet hoping to see a sprint engine or better still the six with a sprint style head more disappointment, The country [as tax payers we all had a small share in BL] had been let down on our investment by BL management, who could not have arranged a piss up in a brewery and a bolshie work force controlled by lefty nutters in the pay of the soviets. Over the years the only thing that has grown on me is the styling exterior not interior. I should also add that I spent some time watching the Manx rally that autumn of 76 BL made a bit of a show with maxi's Dolomite sprints TR's and if my memory serves Allegros notable by it's absence from the stand BL's best rally car the Mini. I suppose it could be argued as there were so many privateers running minis BL did not need to bother, still it was a mistake. By the way the mini's were astonishing on those unmade Manx roads they were giving all the big boys a run for their money and the Allegro was going far better than I ever expected.

I like your anvil has a square hole in it do you have any dolly’s that slide into the anvil.. what thickness steel are you welding back into the car .8 or 1 mill

Can I ask what brand / make is your shrinker stretcher and will it work with 18 gauge / 1.2mm steel.

Cool, that panel was a "Fitzee cut'n butt". I take it that you are using genuine drmmel cutting discs, my ebay ones turn to dust in about 5 seconds.... if I attached a damp aldi digestive biscuit it would probably cut better. That repair looked good, you are right about grinding the welds, the most likely outcome is thinning the original parent metal and the repair peice. For it's age it's surprisingly free from rust. Coming along nicely, enjoy watching your work.

Keep chipping away your doing fantastic work. Been a while. Gave a like also. Wish i knew about the chill spray. Removing the bitumen from my vw 412 was soul destroying.

My dad had a Vx series , not a GLS , but very luxurious for the time crystal blue with a royal blue vinyl roof , I learned to drive in it , many happy memories of it and my beloved father , both sadly no longer with us !

A little set back handled with much sang froid.

Nice job, Martin. I love it that you work so thoroughly. That freezing stuff is a good tip!

Very clever trick to remove sound deadening 😎 and nice result with the panel. More great progress on the restoration. Thanks for sharing 👍🏽

Wow. Well done! Those pieces fit perfectly. Also your welding has got much better than when you repaired your Honda Aerodeck (which was fine, I don't mean to be critical, but this was really much more like it).

This is much like eating an elephant. One piece at a time.

Well done young man, coming along now slowly but surely! Keep the faith...

Bloody love this series

Cool, more Rancho tinkering. 😁

Back in the 1970's you literally couldn't give them away on the secondhand market

You can always weld the back side to add more strength and then grind back or even leave if not seen. Try to get it tacked in then if using the small welds try over lap them as if doing tig welding you’ll get a better weld and clean copper will aid it from sticking to weld when using as a heat sink. Small things I’ve learnt from welding cars for over 30 years and when fitting on car check back of area to weld to for undercoating or paint and especially waxoyl as waxoyl is highly flammable I found that out when fitting new sills on an old mk3 escort it set fire to rear quarter luckily I always have water spray bottle or air line and a co2 extinguisher to hand. Fire blankets are good especially to cover glass as grinding sparks burn glass badly so does weld splatter

Excellent work, Martin! I like the quiet straightforward presentation and the pacing of your editing, not to mention your capable fabrication work. I've also slowly acquired a number of free, random shaped, heavy steel objects that are invaluable in creating the right surfaces for shaping. I'm wanting to make a pipe anvil as well, contemplating making the gap adjustable...

A little tip is the mig wire you throw away as can’t use once it’s at end of spool don’t throw away cut into 16 inch pieces then stick one end of the 3 pieces in vice and the other 3 ends in cordless drill and slow run drill till the 3 pieces twist together you can then feed in like a tig welding rod with your other hand as you weld with mig gun it perfect for when you have slightly to big a gap on repair panel or welding up a hole. I’ve used it many times over 30 years and you can use brass to back metal instead of copper when welding up a hole both metals work great.

Well done. You are bringing me back to my days of owning a Rancho.I had a 4 seater followed by a 6 seater 40 years ago. Great cars!

Little bit heat

Nice work, Seems a porta-band saw on stand would make easier work out of cutting pipe & angle.

I’m a Aussie man living in Australia 🇦🇺 the best place in the world 🌎 I’ve never seen one of those cars before never heard of it look like one of those spastic aluminium Land Rover things to me the only good thing to come out of pomy land was the mighty ford cortina and the Morris miner mini

Hi I’m new to your channel I’m from Australia 🇦🇺 and I’m into older model falcon Utes and I have a 1975 TD cortina that I be restoring soon enough I like your way of doing this type of panel repair I’ll be doing the same thing soon

I’m new here i don’t know what sort of vehicle this is your working on ? I’m a panel beater by trade I’d do those panels with a bead roller to get a sharper look and strength but your way works fine I’m finding it interesting to see how you do your work with rust sections nice job 👍 I like it older methods of repair

Thanks Martin, for a very good, informative video. I recently went along to ‘take a look’ at a tired 1979, Elite 501 finished in gold. Despite not being particularly interested in the Elite, as soon as I saw the car ‘in the flesh’ I soon changed my opinion. The car is incredibly low and sleek - features that aren’t captured well in photographs. I then watched all of your Elite videos to learn a little more about them. I now own a tired 1979 Lotus Elite 501 finished in gold 🤔

Just use mdf, then sell it

"This MDF IS 18 mil thick, which is about the width of your finger, if you're still using inches." WHAT??? Why not tell us in inches then, or say it's about the width of your finger - if you're still counting on your fingers!

That was the most beatiful car introduction I have ever seen. I love these XJS and am gonna own one, let it destroy me.

I worked in a (NZ) Fiat/Lancia dealership in the early-mid 70's, the exhaust note on the 124 Coupe & Beta was very sexy. The twin cam engine as a jewel especially the late model 1800 which had heaps of torque and the long head bolts didn't stretch. They were all advanced for their time, fun cars to drive and easy to fix if you were familiar with their quirks.

I worked in a (NZ) Triumph specialist garage in the mid-late 70's, all great cars for their time especially the sports car models :)

Learned to drive and passed my test in my Austin Princess

Make temp funnels from empty plastic milk bottles

What thickness?

I did notice the 'middle passenger wont be viewing the world through HER knees' 😂 ... my daughter... 😂