Wow its been a long time since I updated this, so thought I had bloody better lol.

Unfortunately photobucket has ran outta room so I don't really have many pics (anyone know of another place I can host pics?) but here's some that I do have!

Well basically I left the story at the bodyshop...car was fully prepped and had just been painted/left in the oven, well I went over there the minute they opened in the morning and this is what I found - was stunned at how different and how great it looked, well they say pics are a thousand words so here they are!




ooooh silky smooth




Love this shot - shows just how good the finish is!




No more rust....




Tailgate was sprayed seperately lol




Hmmm as fresh as the day it was made






Do I hear shiny?










Mint battery tray..


Some of the masking removed - still filthy tho


Back in the workshop - god it needed the coilovers on it lol.


Brakes look tiny lol, even tho there the bigger XR/RS jobbies!


Fresh bumper - minus splitters for now








Colour coded base plates look great imo, suits the dark colour!


Random shot lol.

So thats how it sat, was a few more days of painful waiting to get it reassembled and all wired up, but got there in the end and it was finally ready for its mot!

Unfortunately for me it failed
Couldn't believe it pmsl could have been driving it but nope, it needed new wipers all around, the coilovers needed fitting (standard shocks knackered), brake pipe was lose and needed refitting, sunstrip was to big, and the disks were rusty.

So I got to drive it all of 400yards home....where it would sit for 2weeks before they could fit it in for a retest!

Oh well lol, got rid of the nasty sunstrip as I thought it looked cack anyways so that was good, got some new wipers, and fitted the coilovers...only to have the adjustment on the front passenger side to shear off the first time I went to have it adjusted....so that had to be taken off again sent back to be repaired and then refitted.

Got it back to the MOT station (disks had cleaned up by now as well) and it finally passed!!!!!!!

First time I had ever driven her on the roads, and the first time I had drove in 3months since passing my test, and boy what a feeling. Could have so nearly ended in tears tho, after 5mins of driving some idiot went the wrong way at the roundabout and cut right across me - emergency stop just missed him I was going mental lol.

Anywho onto the next chapter....