Fair play to that, good luck with it Claire.
Shes got a good mentor!
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Fair play to that, good luck with it Claire.
Shes got a good mentor!
Daily looks good now ive seen full size piccies, im liking that but can see what Ste meant about the finish in the paint, have you tried flatting it yet then lol
Is the purple Nova this one?
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Could well be Johnny. You may well know him actually..he is from Wantage/Uffington way. Will? So is the lad that did alot of the work. Rich?
Yes, it is that one, the glass is etched up as 'H188 HJT', but had the personal plate of 'WIL 9047' on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pistol Pete
yeah thats the shell mate and paul thanks for the comment and spud no we havent i think she has an update of todays progress to put up after we have had tea
thanks for all the comments guys and if anyone has anymore pics of the purple shell, they'd be greatly appreciated! its always nice to know a cars history!
well we got started at about 3pm today and stripped the doors
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the went about cleaning out all the crap and found its last point of being on the road
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a pod slip from nearly exactly 5 years ago to date lol (25th march 2006) it must have ran with an xe assuming the pod havent changed their classes as it was in the 'b' class, ran a respectable 13.7 at 101.98
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we also found a wizards of nos installation guide, a big ass clifford alarm and tracker and a few bits that pointed towards it having had big audio at some point as well.
anyway, cracked faithful old henry the hoover out and it was ready for the rollover jig
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up goes the back
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and then she was over and off to the painful process of wire wheeling and scraping off all the underseal, stonechip and paint
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after about 2-3 hours, it was finally looking like we'd done something
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We have found some slight holes in the floorplan, well, slight may be an understatement but its solid everywhere else it needs to be so welding some plates in to strengthen the floor isnt too much of a big issue, its just going to be time consuming and fiddly
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note that you can see the part number once again like its brand new lol
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once its all properly cleaned of all the underseal and stuff, we'll know whats actually left to work with although we've got a pretty good idea already.
Tomorrow's action plan is to get it all completely cr*p free and be looking at getting some welding done this week once all the rot has been cut out.
The spare wheel well is also being cut out this week and a plate going over as the plan is to have a centre exit exhaust :)
I love the colour, ill be keeping my eye on this.
Do you know the name of the colour ?
:( afraid not! i would like to know though as would like to keep it this colour!Quote:
Originally Posted by LEWI007
pistol pete may be able to shed some light as his mate used to have this car, any help with this pete please?!
You could take a part into the paint shop and match it if you get stuck.
Good luck anyway.