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[GT Jimmy]

You must be buzzing that you've got some colour on mate. The quicker you get it done the quicker you can pull me out of the crap ha ha

Will do mate and can drive it round to help out. Been some late nights and early mornings recently though

Will be worth it in the end mate. I'll get some done on mine when the kids are back in school

Yeah best bet to get stuff done. Hope you have made a list of where to start

Got a bit of an idea, sills and doorsteps first. Gonna get all the underneath welded, stonechipped and body colour before rolling back over

You can borrow my stone chip gun when you come to it haha

Who needs a stonechip gun when you have a Matty?

[James_eaton_thewholething]

You must be buzzing that you've got some colour on mate. The quicker you get it done the quicker you can pull me out of the crap ha ha

Will do mate and can drive it round to help out. Been some late nights and early mornings recently though

Will be worth it in the end mate. I'll get some done on mine when the kids are back in school

Yeah best bet to get stuff done. Hope you have made a list of where to start

Got a bit of an idea, sills and doorsteps first. Gonna get all the underneath welded, stonechipped and body colour before rolling back over

You can borrow my stone chip gun when you come to it haha

Who needs a stonechip gun when you have a Matty?

I need me a matty. At least I've got my grandma and a headliner that only cost £13 haha

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Looking good you will be soon putting it back together :)

[James_eaton_thewholething]

Looking good you will be soon putting it back together :)

Hopefully. I've asked the misses if I can get paint finished tonight she said as long as I eat tea with her then I'm good so hopefully get it all finished tonight and then get started with rubbing down and polishing tomorrow

[rally1380]

 

top job! looks nice! what colour is it?

Thanks mate, It's not to bad ha going to need a good flatting and polishing for it to look better but happy as its my first ever time and isn't going to be a show car. It's rover hurricane grey. It's really nice can't wait to get it out in day light.

 

 

I knew I recognised the colour......was it pure coincidence?

[James_eaton_thewholething]

 
I knew I recognised the colour......was it pure coincidence?

I was hoping you would spot this at some point. Originally the car was going to be black with a red roof. Then I got into really liking grey cars. That is when I came across your car and just really loved the colour and that's it was set on that grey. So as it doesn't seem that there is many in this grey I wanted to carry it on and come away from the regularly used greys. Plus it's such a nice colour and I like how depending on the angle of the light it looks lighter or darker so it's thanks to Barry I picked this colour

[rally1380]

 

 
I knew I recognised the colour......was it pure coincidence?

I was hoping you would spot this at some point. Originally the car was going to be black with a red roof. Then I got into really liking grey cars. That is when I came across your car and just really loved the colour and that's it was set on that grey. So as it doesn't seem that there is many in this grey I wanted to carry it on and come away from the regularly used greys. Plus it's such a nice colour and I like how depending on the angle of the light it looks lighter or darker so it's thanks to Barry I picked this colour

 

 

I'm glad you liked it that much to commit to painting your car the same.....big compliment.  It is a fantastic colour, and not sure why more don't use it.  When I tell people i'm changing the colour of mine back to the original factory colour, everyone comments that I should leave it as is......obviously tricky now i'm in limbo with a very broken shell!!!!

 

Did you change to Celly or stick with 2K?

 

Your car is really looking good though....looking forward to seeing it finished.

[James_eaton_thewholething]

 

 
I knew I recognised the colour......was it pure coincidence?

I was hoping you would spot this at some point. Originally the car was going to be black with a red roof. Then I got into really liking grey cars. That is when I came across your car and just really loved the colour and that's it was set on that grey. So as it doesn't seem that there is many in this grey I wanted to carry it on and come away from the regularly used greys. Plus it's such a nice colour and I like how depending on the angle of the light it looks lighter or darker so it's thanks to Barry I picked this colour
 

 
I'm glad you liked it that much to commit to painting your car the same.....big compliment.  It is a fantastic colour, and not sure why more don't use it.  When I tell people i'm changing the colour of mine back to the original factory colour, everyone comments that I should leave it as is......obviously tricky now i'm in limbo with a very broken shell!!!!
 
Did you change to Celly or stick with 2K?
 
Your car is really looking good though....looking forward to seeing it finished.

I understand why you would want to change back to the original colour as its for originality. But yes I really like the colour so much. There is a few grey cars on the roads as it seems to be the in colour but none are like this they are either light grey or a very dark blue ish grey.

I stuck with the 2 pack in the end as I already had it and borrowed stuff for protection. Thinking I might need to buy another litre though depending on how much is used

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Looking good you will be soon putting it back together :)

Hopefully. I've asked the misses if I can get paint finished tonight she said as long as I eat tea with her then I'm good so hopefully get it all finished tonight and then get started with rubbing down and polishing tomorrow

 

Wicked sounds good mate you will have a fully painted mini at the end of the night :)

[James_eaton_thewholething]

 

Looking good you will be soon putting it back together :)

Hopefully. I've asked the misses if I can get paint finished tonight she said as long as I eat tea with her then I'm good so hopefully get it all finished tonight and then get started with rubbing down and polishing tomorrow
 

Wicked sounds good mate you will have a fully painted mini at the end of the night :)

Pretty much then it's just a couple of black coats on the roof and it's done can hopefully get them done at the weekend on next Monday

[GT Jimmy]

When do you think you'll have it on the road? Looks good to me

[GT Jimmy]

Any updates mate?

[James_eaton_thewholething]

Any updates mate?

Not at the moment had some crap to attend to in life so car is currently on hold for a very short period but will still be finished soon enough

[James_eaton_thewholething]

So after a bit of time away from the car and getting stuff sorted out. I am now a man of the single world again. I finally got down to rubbing the runs out of the paint and decided it will need re painting not bothered really just want it right. Think my problems were trying to rush painting because under pressure to get it finished and now I'm not so all is good.

In the mean time I had ordered my rear beam and coil overs which arrived. I'm slowly getting to the point where once stuff is painted I can get it all straight onto the car





With the rear beam I might have to adjust the centre bit of the support so I can tuck the exhaust up but it will be easy enough to do and I'm going to be painting over the powder coat anyway for more protection.

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Sorry to hear about that dude, some nice shiny bits there though to take your mind off things, can't wait to see it all on the mini.