When YFY 467 first arrived at TJ Bodyworx it was media blasted to enable the team to start from bare metal.
After panel beating an epoxy primer was applied to seal the metalwork acting as a rust protection, this process also offers a natural ground coat for the filler, keeping it locked away from the metal and preventing it taking on moisture. Next stage was fitting the Lenham GT fibre glass rear clam using fibre glass filler for bonding. Then a high solid filler primer was applied and it was then blocked in 120 sandpaper to get a nice flat surface for the light grey primer which was blocked with 500 sandpaper. Then YFY 467’s Aston Martin base colour was applied followed by a high solid clear coat. Once it was thoroughly dried it was block sanded and then the ascent colour was applied to the grille. Once the clear coat had cured TJ Bodyworx’s team wet sanded again with 1500, 2500, 3000 and 6000. The final process to YFY 467 bodywork will see it be polished up to a high shine. TJ Bodyworx use Max Meyer products made by PPG.
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The paint selection for YFY 467 has been a long time in coming. Our first introduction to the scheme came from a visit to the Classic Car show at the NEC in 2009. Bizarrely Daniel Couldridge and I were walking around the motorbikes and we both spotted a very cute Italian racer sporting the three colour combination. Since then it has always at the back of our minds.
Move forward a few years and I picked up a classic car magazine which on the front had 3 very special Aston Martins on turning the the feature I fell in love with a certain paint which took me back to revisiting the bike scheme and this reiterated to us this had to be the scheme for this very special Lenham GT. Bizarrely when Will Corry obtained YFY 467 it was painted in a duck egg blue colour but once I registered her the V5C came back stating that the car was originally the same colour as our choice!, but a differing shade. As a tribute to the original car one of the ascent colours will be its original shade along with my MG Midget RRF 696L’s original colour. Now sitting in the final primer now and guide coat. YFY 467 will sit till next Thursday when the paint will be applied.
Tonight I have started increasing the content on the site which now includes a SS1800 history page. Although the car only really ran for half a season with a Lenham GT rear body it was extremely successful and if the regulations had not been changed who knows what other successes John Britten may have achieved with this version? The photo on this post is Roger Enever in his 1275cc MG Midget 138 DMO who leads John Britten through Druids at Brands Hatch in 1966. |
AuthorRob Clubbe is orignally from Wem in Shropshire. At the age of 20 he purchased his first Midget from Dr Sayce and the story begins! Archives
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