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Exciting update time
When I bought the car I always intended on fitting an RS Turbo kit and RS option spoiler, but with the paint on the car not being that great a freshly paint kit would have looked stupid. Now Whit is my least favourite Escort colour so I did think about the frozen white route, but after seeing a frozen white S2 at the same body shop I used I was glad I went a different route. It just looks wrong.
After a lot of looking I seen a colour on a Skoda, soon as I seen it I was straight on the phone to see if I mate could get it, unfortunately My mates paint supplier couldn’t get it so after look through a load of colour chips I got what is the closest colour I could get. Part of the colour change reason was I didn’t want just “another” white S2 Turbo Cabby, I wanted it to stand out.
So on the 2nd of January the car was unloaded off the trailer at 09:00 and a 16hour stint seen the full colour change completed.
I honestly couldn’t have picked a better colour, it suits the car perfect. Now I’m a fuzzy one when it comes to the little details (see my RWD Cossie S2 ERST thread) so loads of effort went into the little things, door shuts, hinges, door straps, head light bezels and front panel, lower sills, etc, the parts that usually get over looked as “oh that’ll do” sort of areas.
Anyway pics
Bumpers were striped back to bare plastic, then plastic primed, High build not needed
Striped down ready for the booth and base coat
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Even the slam panel plates got painted of the car
And finished panels
Turbo kit
And car reassembled, took us from 9am to 1am the next day, so 16 hours in total. Had to get it all done in one session as we only hired the booth for the day
Couldn't resist offering an arch up when I got it home the next day
To say I love the colour is an understatement,
My mate wanted to give it a good polish before I reassemble it, had a stag weekend last week in Andorra so has been left for 2 weeks to chill out, hoping he'll be up tomorrow with a bit of luck.
Then a case of putting all back together, Vents and spoiler are going black as are the bumper stripes, so all black and grey
Hope people like it
Ginger
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