Well finally ive made a start, had the car since 99 and despite spending
over £40,000 on her, the bodywork etc has never seen paint or panels.

So she having a complete topside & underside paint job, all running gear
been blasted & painted, redesigned interior with new seats, plus another
engine and slightly different spec.

Aint going rush this and hoping to have it completed by 2008

Sat in her new home for the next few months





The strip begins.....






My mint floor pan, not one sight of rust, not bad for 20 years



Interior stripped, Cheers stretch



First van load

 

good luck mate lovely looking car anyway cant wait to see how it will look once its done, i like your back lights, where did u get them from?

 

I demand you let me use your garage
Going to be watching this resto with intrest keep the pics coming

 

Some of my new parts, aint 100% if going use all of them until i decided
on spec

Engine, NMS built with cosworth low comp pistons, stage 2 NMS head
with NMS speced cams from blanks, This is stretch old engine and i know
the spec is awesome, properly built with top parts






supersprint 4x4 tubular manifold



EEcIV inlet & spacer



MSD coilpack kit



Mocal oil cooler



One of Ryan looms, ready for coilpacks & air/air

 

Ronnie, there clears mate and i just painted red bits with foiltec paint

 

Tip Top Motor mate .Pleasure to help strip her and looking forward to the weekend.

Wing mirror looks but cock handed in first few pic's like she knew wot you were up to But with the ideas you have for her i think she gonna be awesome

And i think you got the date wrong WE both know she will be back next year

 

very nice what are you going to do with the engine thats in there at the moment

 

That engine sold mate

 

This'll be interesting

I really like your new wheels

 

nice one cheers mate think i'll try that on my one will be keeping my eye's on this one

do you know where you'll be mounting the oil cooler? and are you using remote oil filter? trying to figure out where to mount mine

 

not yet mate, prob on the left side behind bumper

 

Madness.

 

agreed 100%

the car IS mint, and you stripped it

 

Nice one big man Will be watching this thread with interest

 

Best of luck Rob

2008 Hope you remember where you put everything

 

nice one mate ! sure it will be the tits

 

Where is that garage? It looks more lika an operating theatre!

 

- it was such a nice car b4 you stripped it

but cant wait to see it done

we need to see lots of pics for this thread

 

The garage is the reason ive been waiting so long to start it, waiting for bloody builders to finish it

I know the car was pretty mint before i started, there aint many 3drs
left with original paint, panels etc that are used properly but there a few
marks on it now and as im changing engine etc i thought i just aswell
go right through it.

Like stretch said if i wanted to i could have it done by spring next year
but i want a break from car scene for a year so no rush

Cheers for comments guys and i keep pics coming

 

Good luck with it all Rob

 

Wow this is going to look amazing when complete!! Will be watching with interest

 

Good luck mate cant beleive how mint the car was before it was stripped keep us all posted

 

Good luck with the resto will be mint when done (even though it is now)

 

Good luck mate, looks a minter now

 

 

Restoring a mint shell, thats no easy task!

 

 

Rob s thats the business !!!!

I want that bumper !

Truely stunning !

Out of interest mate , where did you get your rear lights , ive been looking for some with smoked bits where yours is white

 

If you look futher down the thread mate he says there clears that have been sprayed. But the ones your after i'm pretty sure are available from Nomad or used to be in the summer

 

Hi Mate

I got new clears lights from Nomad and painted in the red bits
myself with foiltec paint , suppose you could do clear bits black aswell

http://www.nomadracing.co.uk/index.html

 

thanks pal

 

Wow, thats clean

 

Picked up my new recon gearbox yesterday and will be taking the
bodykit off tonight, then we'll see how mint it really is

 

so is the garrage

good luck with the build mate

 

40k

gunna be a interesting build

 

40K is what ive already spent over the years mate, to get it to this standard including the £12.000 the car cost me.

plus the engine & bits ive got in the above posts.

but im getting respray done for nothing and all the unerneath i can do
myself so shoudnt be to bad

 

Quality

Wish i had a garage like that

 

Mint car MINT garage

 

nice car looks mint

 

just found pic of garage from 2 months ago, should do a resto thread on that lol