Another photo dump with a lot of details of the repair to the rear corner. We haven’t found a lot of good photos of metalwork repairs to XK120s elsewhere on the internet, so we’re trying to help others working on these cars with our photos. Anyway, the lower rear corner on the right side was
We’ve put a pretty big photo dump below showing how we repaired the flange that mounts the right rear fender. It’s three layers of metal–the outer layer that is seen, the inner wheel well, and then a curious strip about 1.5″ wide that joins the two The joining strip has cage nuts approximately every 12″
We’re not quite sure if this is the correct name for these parts, but we call them the top pans as the top bows fold into them. As with the rest of the car, they were quite rusty, so we’re making new ones as well as repairing the areas they are welded to. We drilled
We had quite a bit of repair work in the rear bulkhead. The bottom 4″ plus the corners were rusted out. We started with minor repairs in the upper corners Then we made repair panels for the lower portions and cut away the old metal. We tacked the repairs in, then finish welded them. With
We’re very fussy about carefully stripping the paint on a project. With this one, the owner hand-stripped the outside surfaces with a DA sander. While we usually send bodies out for sandblasting, we chose to do this one onsite in our “dirty room.” It’s a messy job but gets the metal clean. As shown, the
The owner of this rusty but untouched Jaguar XK120 is doing much of the work himself. He’s trusting us with some of the heavy lifting. Here are some pictures of he car as it arrived for us to do some of the disassembly. The car was so rusty that the body came off in two
