Another stage in the rolling restoration

Its winter again and time to continue the rolling restoration of my 1972 TR6 PI. Last winter I carried out a chassis change including an engine refresh and suspension rebuild. This year I decided it was time to address the bodywork. From 20 feet the car looks OK, however once you get up close it becomes clear that the paintwork isn't up to much. In fact it has more "orange peel" than a tangerine!

Luckily there doesn't seem to be too much evidence of rust. The underside is clean with new floors and sills. Otherwise there is one rust bubble on the back of one of the front wings and another on the rear deck (the bit between the cockpit and the boot lid).. O yes and a small hole in the rear edge of the boot lid. Overall, the one that worried me the most was the bubble on the rear deck.

The first thing to do was to remove the 4 wings. These are all bolt-on and should (in theory) be relatively easy to remove. First to come off were the front wings.

These were pretty easy to remove with screws along the top edge and the bottom of the sill. The two sets that were more of a challege were those that go into the front edge of the B-post and those below the head-light. Both of these are accessable from inside the wing. (I should add that you need to disconnect all the electrical connections and off course the bumpers. An examination of the inner wings showed very little rust. just a little on the top flange of the passenger side front wing.
Then I had to remove the rear wings. Again this was just a case of unbolting. There are screws along the top edge (accessable from inside the car), the sill and then underneat the rear light (accessable from inside the wing). Once these wings were removed there was a rather nasty sight at the top of the passenger side wing.

There also seemd to be quite a lot of filler covering the rear deck..