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[GottaDesigner]

Monty's near-concourse.... he cost £4.5k.... (and counting)

[maryquant]

Monty's near-concourse.... he cost £4.5k.... (and counting)

seems quite reasonable, was he in reasonable nick to start with?
I've been pricing up panels and I'm up to 2k already - thinking a re-shell might be more cost effective.

[GottaDesigner]

Nope.... I originally paid £350 for him. Poor thing had lived outside under a tree. He was at least 65% rust, bless him.

[POWER5LAVE]

im in the process of replacing panels myself and i think the panels will be cheaper. im going to get a quote after IMM thanks to xGD im just looking for a few panels and a respray my self the rest of the work i can carry out myself. weldings just not my thing lol

[GottaDesigner]

Monty had everything apart from his roof replaced in terms of panels... >< It was the only part of him that wasn't rusty!!

List of things done:
- Full ground-up rebuild & waxoil.
- Engine reconned, repainted and tarted up.
- High gloss jet black paint job. (And anyone who's met him will tell you he's ridiculously shiny when polished up )
- All grey trim replaced.
- Interior replaced with the best set I could find.
- Professionally re-carpeted in deep-pile black carpet with the rubber footpads.

[maryquant]

Wow he sounds fantastic. Can't wait to meet him. I've never welded before so it's a choice of send her away to be done or invest blood sweat and tears.

[GottaDesigner]

If you can, I'd say invest the time and effort in learning to weld. I'd love to myself, but only having a council lock-up kind of puts the kibosh on that idea. It's nowhere near big enough to work in.

[maryquant]

Yeah same predicament here, would need to build a wooden garage in the garden. Hmmm welding inside a wooden box. Could be fun.

[GottaDesigner]

Tell me about it! *Grins*

*Goes to get Designer cake out of oven* ^^ Whole house now smells of chocolate cake.

[maryquant]

Tempted to do some baking now. Chocolate cake mmmm.
Can anyone think of anything else that needs printing? I have the 2 banners and 2 posters, just need to do the flyers And the stickers and the big rose stickers for the marquees.

Think that's everything, although toting with doing a big happy birthday vinyl wrap for Mary.

[POWER5LAVE]

same here i have messed with welding but i dont feel confident enough to do it on my car lol. i was thinking of doing a college course to get the experience. imagine how much money i could save on the car lol.

[maryquant]

Our local college only offers general vehicle mAintain courses, might have to go further afield. Defo a good idea though.

[pretzil]

*"*"*"*BlUr*"*"*"*"*"
is so confusled right now :S
x

[maryquant]

Just found a few people are heading up to IMM on the thursday - have I got my dates wrong?

[POWER5LAVE]

mary - no the IMM camping site opens wednesday today but the events dont start till friday. and u mite want to google welding courses. ive found a city and guilds course over 22 weeks for 3 hours a week and u will get the experience u need. im defo thinking about doing one. losing 3 hours at work everyweek isnt going to kill me.

2 days people last minute planning is doing my head in pretz do me a favour and text me to remind me about the stero otherwise i will forget and does anyone want some nimbus grey wing mirrors and some nimbus grey headlight rings cause i will bring them if anyone wants them for free.

Edited by POWER5LAVE, 05 August 2009 - 06:46 PM.