Hi my names Phil and here is a thread about my xr2, the car was bought with a good mate of mine as a project for the pair of us. The car came from Manchester way and was owned by an old guy who had shown the car back in the day. Original plan was just to use the car and enjoy it, first of all we changed all the shocks, new tyres, sump, lots and lots of bushes, gave it a service, new radiator. Then after a while we decided the car having had a bit of paint here and there in its life time would really benefit from a full respray. Also the underneath had been painted white previously and was starting to crack and peel off. So we stripped all this off and removed the body kit and all the interior to see what was required.
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The car was remarkably good for the age the floor plan was mint, the only real rust was the off/side rear arch and rear bottom quarter requiring repair and the start of a small hole in the front valence. The boot had some sort of door mat glued in there which was nothing but a water trap and required removing, so of the car went for welding and paint. We also had the yale locks removed and filled.
Pictures after paint.
Back from the paint and repairs we were pretty happy with the results there's a few flecks in the paint here and there its not perfect but that's life. Next came the painting of the arches and underneath which we tackled ourselves over a weekend with my mates compressor, on reflection we should probably have done this before the respray..
Well with all that done all the interior was cleaned and refitted, then came the body kit..... well it cleaned up pretty well the middle sill sections are slightly discoloured a common problem I believe. Then we had the headache of the body kit fixings, I managed to find a place to supply the rivets but all the other fixings were impossible to find lucky we saved some and my mate ben managed to make up the rest out of bits and pieces.
So here's the finished result, hopefully not to bad for our first resto. New number plates all round, new grey stripe and xr2 sticker and under bonnet decals.
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Well there we go it all took about 5 months and we thoroughly enjoyed doing it, I've had some cars over the years but the comments and attention this car attracts is amazing. There's a few jobs left to do maybe uprate the engine and carbs and maybe a escort s1 gearbox. I hope I haven't bored anybody too much or broken any forum rules by posting too many pictures this is my first post after all.