im kinda mid-way through repairing my accident damaged Focus ST that i bought back from the insurance company after it got hit by a bus



im happy to share progress if anyone is interested...i appreciate its not a real resto

cheers

 

Share. Its progress !

 

a small bit of history then,

bought this car nearly 2 years ago, it was a Cat C repaired with 40k on the clock.

this was an ebay special that i collected when it was dark...schoolboy error, someone had painted the entire car probably because they couldn't match the paint and it was terrible

that said i must have put another 40k on it and it only required an oil filter housing, so not a bad car

 

seemingly being sat around for the last six months has not done the paint any good and has now way past saving

 

a few items purchased

wings
bonnet
front bumper
headlight
rear tailgate
rear bumper

this is the car halfway through being stripped



i have since taken all bits off eg bonnet, doors etc and it lives under two tarpaulins

 

somewhere on this site im restoring a 90 spec s2 turbo

found it ....https://passionford.com/forum/restor...storation.html

within this thread you will see the escort was my first attempts at painting a car, whilst i got the paint on even its fair to say it had alot of peel which i put down to the gun

so i bought a second hand one of these


its an iwata WS400 evo with a 1.3hd set up and its a beauty

 

being i was in the can for a full paint job and as the panels are off the car i decided to change colour











bodykit

 

cleaned off all the black paint from one of the fog light surrounds with the view of putting on a proper base and clear coat, but they cleaned up really good

ive placed one on the bumper as picture....i think i prefer the standard look

 

so cleaned off all grills etc

 

things painted thus far

front bumper
bonnet
wings
side skirts
door bump trims
boot lid
rear bumper
boot lid handle
spoiler

im half way through doors and this just leaves roof and rear quarters

im currently storing all panels off the car, but some little bird had decided to have a poo on my bonnet, so i quickly polished it out

the picture below is the first glimps of this finished paint



i do like the look of this and is 100% improvement over the orange (peel)

Merry Christmas

 

The paint work looks really well.

 

Best guns bud I have 6 of them , paint looks good

 

update



this was a squeeze to get in

 

primer

 

 

base white

 

and this is how it looks after a long bank holiday weekend







not too shabby

 

does anyone know where i can get some new plastic roof gutter covers? i guess ford

 

Stick with ford, the only place I would trust for an accurate fitted part.

 

Ł130 for the pair.....ouch

 

Well the alternative is to go digging around a breakers yard, or maybe someones breaking one on here. Are they the same as a standard mk2 focus though?

 

this is the finished look