Have decided to whip the welder out and carry out some light repairs on the old girl.

Have decided to whip the welder, hammer, and angle grinder out and carry out some extensive repairs on the old girl.

It's got rust in the footwell corners, think this is just purely from water spraying from the wheel (this is the worst side - the other isn't too bad). Thought it might be the rubbish sunroof, but it's not:





I finally discovered the paint code and bought some nice paint:



There's a couple of scratches here and there, and through the winter it was covered in a weathershield thing. I taped it down and when I removed the tape I took a bit of paint off on the roof.

I began my welding on this li'l fella, it's the thing that turns the -handbrake- light on the dashboard:



Yerrr:


The wire had also snapped!



The little jobs make the biggest difference:



Put it back in and gave it a quick spray from a random rattle can:



Put new/old stock gaiters on the gear stick and shaft:



Yay!!!!



I've got metal ready shaped to go in, so will have to cut a load out and do a proper job, the whole interior will get a respray to freshen it up, it looks a bit faded. Will put more pics up soon!

What car is this?

Summut old judging by the seats and handbrake...

its a suzuki whizzkid if im right

Farting near a welding torch? That has to be a bit dodgy...

be careful!

'tsa Suzuki Whizzkid.

Very Retro

You cant beat bringing an old motor back to life.
I like old cars too (and got one as well - not a whizz tho').
Heres an old advert.

have you got one of these mate cracking lil cars just bought one

I know you said last year.

i know mate i was asking criss gilly

no but ive seen violets its fairly decent, looks fun to drive

Get some pics up! Did you get it resprayed?
I started on mine today.

wow, i remember looking at one of these that was for sale when i was younger, look like fun.

Only 30 - 40 were MOT'd last year in the UK going by the DVLA website. Parts are flipping rare, don't think I could afford to keep it in the long run in case something goes wrong.

I removed all the the surface rust yesterday and this afternoon cut the crappy metal out.





The front wing is welded on! ARGH.

Welded a new piece of metal in. Couldn't find any spare metal anywhere, so cut up an old PC tower case I got from work, which really did the job.





Will shape properly tommorow and get that wing off.

i usually use old boiler cases to weld

nice progress bud!

put the rear quarter on, new wings then parked it up on my drive when i lost my garage gona get it resprayed and mot,d ready for the summer hopefully stil havnt sorted that rear seay base though. ill take some pics if it this week and put them on, should stil have some pics of it in the garage looking sorry for it self

There was a load of genuine panels on ebay for about 400 quid about a month ago.

Today I set about the other side of the hole!





This'll do until I get some gas to seam weld it. I'm praying it doesn't flipping rain now!



Cut the inner panel I welded yesterday off to get to shape with the outer panels, at which point I felt frazzled and packed up.
I'm thankful the other side is just one small bit.

nice one bud, getting there!

can`t qait to see this once it`s on the road

Whats happened to the pictures.
It says bandwidth exceeded.
The pics were here a couple of weeks ago.

Anyway
The Whizzkid is one of the the best cars I've ever driven.
You cant help but laugh when driving one.
Brings back memories.
I've seen one around Birkenhead recently.
Is that yours?
There cant be many about now.
rockster.

It's probably mine! Photobucket exceeded bandwidth somehow! Comes back on in a week.