Front Inner Wing Repairs

So, I have finally found the time to remove all of the poorly fitted repair panels from the front of the car.  You can see below a trial fit of the wing to see the panel will fit with the wing and bonnet.

Here is a mock up with both wings fitted, this has highlighted some critical issues that the wings were different heights and the bonnet did not fit.  This can be adjusted during the assembly.

Here is the driver side top repair panel and front curved panel welded in place.  This took a lot of checking with the nose clamped in place to ensure a good fit with the bonnet.

 Here is the passenger side stripped down to reveal later rot issues that require attention.

Below is the finished panels in place, and fuel tank in to ensure it fits.  Next job to take it off the chassis again to get everything up front blasted and painted.

Removing the Karmann Ghia nose

Here is the drivers side wing with the air intake boxes removed.  You can see that there is rot and the panels are barely welded together.  The other side was just as bad.....

OK, so with a little it of work, carefully grinding out welds the front panel is off.

On closer inspection, the bad workmanship continues so I also removed the inner wheel well panel.

OK, so here we are with very little left.  It is likely I will remove the top side repair panels as well.
Whilst this is all open, I will prep the whole are and get a it in etch primer.

Replacement Nose and inner wing panels including fresh air intake vents

Haven't been able to work on the car for a while, but got some free time and decided to remove the patch underneath the fresh air intake box.

Previous repairs on the car have been carried out pretty poorly, and I imagine here is no different.

As suspected, rot left under the patch, and this probably passes up into the air intake box as well.

The whole of the front of the car has been replaced with new panels quite poorly, and to top it off the bonnet is a bad fit.

So I have decided that I should remove all of the repair panels on the front of the car and refit properly.

Luckily enough, all of the panels have been welded with very poor blobs of weld that can be carefully cut without damaging either panel.

Here is the long fresh air section removed.