Hi everyone,
I've been MIA for a while now but i've started selling nova bits and thought i'd do a thread (for anyone who actually cares) on what i've been doing for the last 5 years ...
This XR2 does have some relevance to the Nova world, it did belong to a friend and old-school member from here; Steve Jura - who i recently learnt has passed away. He sold me the XR2 for a very modest amount, which had been in his family since new under the premise that "i know you'll look after it" the least i can do is make sure i continue to do this .
This is what it looked like ... before i left it in a barn for 4 years
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...k/IMG_1567.jpg
This is what it looked like afterwards ... (10 points to the person who guesses the shell in the background)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps961a3c4c.jpg
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A low temp steam clean and it looked ok - At this point i thought it was probably brown bread. Off it went to the body shop to get the verdict of how viable it was to repair.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps60dc254d.jpg
This is what they found .... On a 40k car
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps3a4785d8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps4529b8ea.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps70a32375.jpg
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After haggling a quote, which was pretty substantial . I decided to proceed and have everything done properly. The chap who did the work is impeccable, primarily they replaced arch lips, inner/outer sills and rebuilt the rear beam mount / spring seats with hand fabricated panels. All panels i sourced were genuine Ford and this stuff does not come cheap .
It got Painted . We decided to retain as much of the existing paintwork as possible as it came up really good and i didn't have the budget to pay for a whole respray, plus i want to keep the originality of it as it's never going to be an A1 concours car, just a well loved, used and cherished one. At their level of quality it would have been more thousands that the car is worth.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...psd6acd069.jpg
The finish is fantastic, i really struggle to see that it's been painted and i'm quite particular.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps135d126a.jpg
Genuine Rivet kit bought ... Body kit back on
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps573f8213.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...psf370897e.jpg
Pirelli P6000's aquired. These are hard to get hold of ! The fiesta comes on P600's , or P6's for the earlier models. Steve told me to make sure it always has P6000's on it, so it does.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...psb61f29f3.jpg
After 5 litres of new fuel, it fired up first time. I picked it up and drove it 300 Miles to its new home in portsmouth after it had been run once and driven 1.5 miles in 4 Years. Here's how it stands now.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...pse3cc009e.jpg

