Another newcomer

[bz100]

Hi All,
Just wanted to introduce my self as this is my first post. I have followed the forum for a couple of months now.

My intention is to build everything from scratch and I started building my chassis in the beginning of December. I’m at the stage of tacking the rear suspension tubes in place.
Hopefully I have set up the links correct so you can see pictures of the progression of my project.

I don’t have a donor, or any idea what yet to use. I’m living in Portugal, even though I’m Swedish, and I might have problem to locate a Sierra as donor. Must say in the 4 years I’ve been living here I can’t recall I’ve seen a single one. And I would think there are other obstacles as registration… It took me 9 months to get my LR Discovery matriculated with Portuguese plates.
Cheers

[tkpm]

Welcome to the forum bz100, looks like you done a fair bit in short space of time, keep up that progress and you will soon be finished.

Keep the pictures coming.

Terry

[HandyAndy]

Welcome to the forum BZ100

Some great build photos there,

best wishes for the rest of your build.

cheers
andy

[bz100]

Thanks alot Terry and Andy

[alga]

Oooh, nice clean workspace. I've realised I went a messy way in all respects -- using black steel, cutting it with a chopsaw, cutting a lot of the plates with the angle grinder... Your build looks sterile compared to mine. Well, you'll have to make some mess when it comes to grinding welds flat for the panels.

[alga]

BTW, there's another builder in Portugal, in Aveiro, take a look here:
http://www.haynes.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=3248

[shh120m]

wow thats a nice milling machine

good looking build, best of luck

nathan

[bz100]

Originally Posted by alga

Oooh, nice clean workspace. I've realised I went a messy way in all respects -- using black steel, cutting it with a chopsaw, cutting a lot of the plates with the angle grinder... Your build looks sterile compared to mine. Well, you'll have to make some mess when it comes to grinding welds flat for the panels.

Well Alga, that the beauty of living in a warmer climate. When that kind grinding comes along, I’ll probably do it outside

[bz100]

Originally Posted by shh120m

wow thats a nice milling machine

good looking build, best of luck

nathan

Thanks Nathan, The milling machine is a Aciera F3. Probably from the 60's.
It came with quite a few acc. like indexing/rotary head, boring head etc, etc.

[Twin]

Welcome to the forum BZ