Project: Gold Snowplough Turbo

Small update:

No real documentable progress this week. The bodyshop has had some fairly important insurance jobs on a deadline to sort out which has sort of pushed the Nova aside. No biggie really as the car is in the shop and safe.

I did go there begining of this week to discuss what colour to do the bumpers. I have been thinking for a good few years what colour would look good and came across a few Gray's that looked very cool. I currently have Ford Graphite Grey as some of you may have seen (currently in all photos)

We had an in-depth discussion with the guys at the shop. Colour coding was a no no as the gold isn't a great colour for the bumpers and tbh we all said it would look cheap and tacky. I know that for most MK1 Nova's a contrasting colour looks best (Just look at Andy_017's 16v build)

I opted for an anthracite then I had a RedBull which seemed to have made me a bit braver. After looking at some more GM colour chips and examples I opted for GM - Carbon Black.

I picked the Carbon Black for a few reasons.

1) I though I'd be a bit brave and different (RedBull)

2) It seemed to have a very slight tint/hue of a Brown/Gold and wasn't as dark as other black when compared to each other. Obviously I will only see the real deal when painted but I'm still very confident that it'll look sweet.

3) It's not something that is seen everyday on a MK1 Nova as most bumpers are either standard grey or an Anthracite of some sort, especially on a Snowplough.

4) Except for the bumpers, everything is black, window surrounds, rubber seals, petrol cap and door mirror frames.

So the plan is for the front bumper and the snowplough to be entirely Carbon Black, the rear GTE bumper to be Carbon Black (If you look at the pic of the GTE bumper I picked up in my previous post, the red area will be in Carbon Black). As the Carbon Black will be laquered and therefore shiney and glossy I opted for the bottom lip of the GTE rear bumper to be in Matt Black to help break up the colour and to give some sort of emphasis to the GTE lip. The petrol cap will also get a nice coat of Carbon Black.

I'm expecting to see some new progress on Monday as the insurance jobs will have gone and my car can start to get finished off.

i think you made the right decision
Carbon Black bumpers :cool:

Proof is in the pudding mate, we'll have to see how good it looks when painted :)

I spent absolute ages picking out some colours though. Never thought is would be that difficult.

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Originally Posted by Nova_Tek

Proof is in the pudding mate, we'll have to see how good it looks when painted :)

I spent absolute ages picking out some colours though. Never thought is would be that difficult.

:)

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dont worry i would be the same
No point rushing,
as you will only regret it once its all sprayed

Update - No Update!

Thought I'd quicky just make an update as some of you maybe be wondering what's happened. It started off fairly fluently and now has slowed down.

I had to nip off aborad end of Feb to get a few things sorted (work related) so I had a chat with the bodyshop to just bring it down a notch (obviously I didn't want them to do loadsa work without me checking it out every step), which is why there has been no update since the last.

But we should see things pick up again in the next week (probably end of next week). Shall be speaking to the bodyshop to prepare to step things up again. I'm aiming for an end of March completion date for the bodywork.

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can't wait to see this finished its gonna be a cracker :thumb:

Thanks dude. Said it once and I'll say it again... can't wait :d :d

im looking forward to seeing this painted, i do like retro cars in gold. i think its cos you never see a car in gold anymmore. Keep up the good work!!

Cheers pal.

Tis true, aren't many old gold cars on the road and there are far fewer gold Novas around. The colour is probably half the specialness of the build.

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good work mate will look top when its done!!