I bought my Ford Ka brand new back in March 2008 and it started out life as a Zetec Climate (1.3) with 69bhp. [I have thousands of pictures of the car from standard up until now, but I won’t bore you with all of them, I’ll just add a few in now and again]

I'd only had the Ka a few days and I changed the peashooter exhaust for a Sportex catback one, fitted the Kenwood headunit from my old car, fitted a Lockwood grille and smoked side repeaters.

Over the next few weeks I fitted some Swoosh multicolour gauges in a pillar pod (Voltmeter and water temperature):



I sprayed my dash surrounds matt white and slightly modified the dials:



Around this time I also fitted Morettes to the front of the car and clear rear lights on the back. I managed to get hold of a set of Corbeau Forza 2K seats which were brand new, but an excellent price. They started yellow but I had them retrimmed in black and fitted Sparco Torino harnesses. The seats were on sliding and tilting subframes so that passengers could still get in and out of the back:





Next I tinted my rear lights but left the indicators clear, fitted a 98 Ka aerial base and modified a Richbrook aerial, got a Bosch S4 battery (as the original was a bit poo), cleaned up and painted the rear drums and debadged the boot and colour coded the boot handle, adding a custom badge:



I managed to snap the fuel needle on my gauges (don't ask), so I took them apart and made them look piratey:



For a while I ran the Ka with 32mm wheel spacers on each corner:





Changed some other bits later - cut a big sheet of blue powder coated mesh for a new grille, added a sub and amp and fitted Puma calipers, disks and pads