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Last week and this was spent tackling the back of the Amazon, and to be honest, I always suspected there might be some horrors lurking there.

Lance had done a lovely job with the rear flanges, just smoothing out the lines slightly, and my job for the day was removing the petrol tank, so the boot floor could be started on.

Should be simple, you'd think. Except, as Lance warned, it wouldn't be. You couldn't even see where the screws were that held it on, there was so much c**p, much of it of the r*st variety. After scraping away for half-an-hour with an old chisel, cleaning out the screw heads, I found that they were too rusted to turn. Unfortunately they were also toughened, so drilling them out didn't work either.

Cue me lying underneath for an hour with a Mole wrench, attacking them from the few millimeters that was protruding below the boot floor.

When they were finally out, Mark drained the tank and I set about removing first the tank, and then the gunk that had accumulated over the past 40-odd years.

Beneath that was some fairly meaty rust; whether we'll be able to salvage it will have to wait until it comes back from blasting.

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