107 replies to this topic

[8vAlan]

wow love it! iv got a 1275 g/box you can have just needs pickin up

[miniboo]

**cough GUESSWORKS cough** for a gearbox refurb or rebuild.

[panelbeaterpeter]

cheers miniboo I must get in touch with him. I'm getting a guy to look at it tomorrow and tell me what needs doing.

Thanks for the offer Al, I may taek you up on it if needed!

[jackminivan]

great thred dude, im gonna have to work out how to do one n set up one for my van, looks like you F***ing love that car sum great work done man,

[miniallsort]

very nice

[panelbeaterpeter]

Cheers Jack ! I love it more than is right and normal, I think I'm a bit of a mug.

GEARBOX IS WORKING AGAIN!!!

I was driving it to work expecting just to have third and fourth, but I changed down by habit and thought " Hang on! I'm not meant to be able to do that!" seems a gear selector was stuck up and free'd itself. I think that makes sense...

Anyway, with that all sorted, I can get on with the body again. Got to find a mk1 bootlid or Mk 1 outer skin at least, and waiting on a cool item from smudger

Keep em peeled!

Pete

[Dan1991]

Cool little project man. Really like the style of this.

[liam_italian]

Cheers Jack ! I love it more than is right and normal, I think I'm a bit of a mug.

GEARBOX IS WORKING AGAIN!!!

I was driving it to work expecting just to have third and fourth, but I changed down by habit and thought " Hang on! I'm not meant to be able to do that!" seems a gear selector was stuck up and free'd itself. I think that makes sense...

Anyway, with that all sorted, I can get on with the body again. Got to find a mk1 bootlid or Mk 1 outer skin at least, and waiting on a cool item from smudger

Keep em peeled!

Pete

you can buy mk1 bootlids brand new now, heritage starting making them using the original tooling!

[panelbeaterpeter]

Ah yes I know but they are a bit expensive for what is meant to be a budget project. I'm gonna try mini-machine for a skin on monday. Cheers for the thought though!

Pete

[panelbeaterpeter]

Okay, finally got the bootlid done.. I was after a mk1 but couldn't find one in my budget so I have just smoothed my old one.

Painting it next weekend!!!

Un-needed holes all welded up


Filled


Primed


On car

[backstreetclassics]

looks sweet u must stop crashing tho makes for hard work .

[panelbeaterpeter]

looks sweet u must stop crashing tho makes for hard work .

[panelbeaterpeter]

SHE'S FINALLY PAINTED!!!!

Got it in the garage 5:30 am Saturday morning, got it stripped, prepped and finished painting it at 12 midnight!

Came in 7:00 am Sunday, got it polished and built up by 9:00 pm! For two days I lived on bourbon biscuits, water and paint fumes..

But hey, it's done now (the bodywork at least) and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm a bit annoyed because the guy who put the tyres on the wheels put the weights on the outside.. even though I asked him not too. Must paint them black, won't be so obvious hopefully.

In the end, it cost me £60 including materials and use of premises! Not half bad methinks! It's Flame Red, I used mega cheap commercial vehicle paint, which was actually suprisingly good, and called in a few favours!

Anyways, I hope you like.

Pete

Stripped


In booth, prepped and masked


2.5 litres of paint later...



Building up


FINISHED!!




Peep mirror! actually meant for a veedub beetle but I modified it to fit!


Numberplate bolts I got from America (£39 for two ) LED's "eminate" out of the sides.

[adammini]

Looks fantastic, very smart!
You must be pleased.

[ed4ran]

That is lovely
I really like the styling!!