1987 Saloon Re-build.

Spot on should look great painted yellow

Awesome thread this,proper minter.
Be good see it all painted up :)

The more saloons I see, the more i want one lol

fair play to you mate, Have read through every page of this re-build thread and your progress is unreal, were do you find your motivation
from? I cant get into mine atall at moment!!

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Originally Posted by Cormac

fair play to you mate, Have read through every page of this re-build thread and your progress is unreal, were do you find your motivation
from? I cant get into mine atall at moment!!

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Cheers very much.

I'm only doing a couple of hours a night so as not to get scunnered (sp). The body prepping is really taking it's toll on me though, a lot of work for what seems like no reward. Doing it all by hand, so now have no finger prints!

Only got the O/S sill, lower part of the bulkhead, bottom of the quarters behind the arches, bonnet and bootlid left to do. Plus I'm going to re-do the smoothing of the rear panel and the bootlid lock as I wasn't 100% happy with it first time. Then got the rear axle and front suspension arms to clean up and paint (if needed, might just be needing a good clean), and the anti-roll bars to take back to bare metal and paint, and the brake master cylinder to paint. I hope that's all.........:eek: :cry:

Just a quick tip, this will save your hands when sanding and stop getting any natural grease on the shell from your skin, use some latex gloves. ;)

Scott

Finally got all the body prepped and wiped clean with panel wipe.

I took this to work with me on Friday and polished it. (quite quiet at work at the moment so thought i'd keep myself busy)

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60049-8.jpg

Have painted my brake servo a nice shade of metallic gold.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60050-8.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60051-8.jpg

Along with the blanking plate.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60052-7.jpg

Then it was off with the front suspension arms for a clean up and a wee touch up at the bolted ends.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60053-5.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60054-5.jpg

Today, dropped the rear beam out to clean it up and give the drums a paint.

Before:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60055-4.jpg

After cleaning:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60056-5.jpg

Just found one wee spot on the body needing a rub down and am going to re-skim the bootlid lock hole with filler as I'm not 100% happy with my 3rd attempt last night.

I have re-done the back panel and am happy with that.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...STA60057-2.jpg

Got the garage all cleaned up, floor washed etc etc. Car goes away in 2 weeks for paint.

Good work on the prep, the beam looks good, you not re-painting it though?

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Good work on the prep, the beam looks good, you not re-painting it though?

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Thanks, didn't enjoy it and glad it's over, well almost.

Nah, not painting it, only cleaned it to avoid getting manky when putting the car back together. The car will be that low that it'll never be seen unless up on a ramp.

Cheers,

Shaun.

looking real good, i think you live just down the road from me.are you at the back of the read row houses on sunnyside?

I didn't think they existed but I saw a mustard yellow saloon the other day driven by an old bid, fooking awesome it was.

My only worry with this project is yellow and gold....:confused: