Just to prove that I do have an interest in cars - not just music and ripping the p**s out of madmac!

I bought this R reg Amparo Blue Si off of my sisters boyfriend. Its a well straight car with a mint (and I mean mint!) interior and good bodywork..... well some of it!

The car has potential to be brought back to mint so first off I decided to, with the help of my old man, make a start on the body work.

Before we started as you can see below the front bumper was f*cked and theres some surface rust on the car as well - out first job though was to fix the bumper!





Bumper Repair
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First off we drilled the ends of the cracks to stop them spreading:




Then using a metal file fettled down the edges of the crack:



Chipping out all the hard foam at the back was a pain in the arse!



Crack!



Cutting some aluminium mesh to size:




My old man is convinced ally mesh would be best to use - along with filler. I personally think he knows it too - I reckon he cant fibreglass! But anyway we layed down a layer of filler over the crack, put the messh on top of this and then more filler.

On the Business side of the bumper we added another layer of filler:



and started rubbing down when dry using very course sandpaper!



After initial layers and sandiong:




After a bit more:



Now at this point my camera died and couldn't find the charger!

During this time we filled and sanded using progressivly finer grades of wet and try and filling putty.

BUT I found the charger just in time after the second layer of primer went on!




First layer of blue going on tonight! wooohoooo!

ta for reading

ST