Stag bodywork resto.

[Skyedriver]

Hi, been viewing a Stag that apparently had a profession resto a few years ago and to be honest it looks very good both inside and out BUT, I can see blisters appearing on the visible area (sill covers) leading edge of the sills, lower areas (150mm) of front wings and doors. The join between the sill & rear wings looks fine.
Anyone with a ball park figure for repair please? Assume it'll be repair panels for wings and doors and new sills, then paint.
Thanks

[//j17]

I'm not sure what you could get it patched up on the cheap for but a full sill replacement done properly will be around £3,000.

In their wisdom Triumph designed the sill panel to extend some way behind the front wing so to do a proper job you need to cut off the bottom of the front wing to check rust hasn't gone there/fix it if it has - which then means reattaching the bottom of, then respraying the whole of the front wing in addition to the actual sill work.

[Skyedriver]

Thanks //j17
Dare say the sill could be patched (can't tell the extent of the rot due to SS sill trim).there doesn't seem to be any rot at the B post and to the rear.
The front wings have blisters showing though, assume there's a repair panel to add in?
Add to the small blisters on the door corners (and the obvious filler in the bottom of the door) it's going to be an expensive job to properly redo it with steel rather than filler. Shame as it's got the making of a good car, near show quality but add the repair costs to the asking price and I'm out. (Don't want a show car, just a really tidy car to use).
Out of curiosity, near all Stags suffer the cracked paint and subsequent peeling paint on the joints between front panel and wings. Is there a cure?

[Yertis]

What did you decide? I'd personally steer clear of a showy shiny car with blisters in favour of a more obviously well used but solid example. Blisters are always bad news in my experience, give me surface rust any day.