XR2 Project
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
This is what it looked like afterwards ... (10 points to the person who guesses the shell in the background)
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.
This is what they found .... On a 40k car
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.
The finish is fantastic, i really struggle to see that it's been painted and i'm quite particular.
Genuine Rivet kit bought ... Body kit back on
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.
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.
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