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[Awamckay]

todays update: PAINT IT'S BLUE!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roof getting painted black tomorrow :)

[nathdawg]

Some great progress where about did you paint and what paint do you use? On another note do you have a 5 series and an awesome looking E30 on the drive?

[Awamckay]

Nope, up until yesterday i had an awsome looking e36 in silver on the drive, wifes car is a meriva. Painted it down the side of my house with halfords rattle cans, its a rally car so doesnt need a show standard paint job, would have gun'd it otherwise.

[Yams]

You're working fast! The rear lights are looking great, very nice work there. Keep up with this thread, it's giving me the motivation to carry on with mine!

[Awamckay]

Glad i can be of some assistance ;)

[nathdawg]

Looks good and must have take a while, how much did it cost you to do the lot? Do you know the house I am referring to?

[nathdawg]

Is it rover electric blue?

[Awamckay]

Looks good and must have take a while, how much did it cost you to do the lot? Do you know the house I am referring to?

not sure which house you reffering to, where is it?

 

my mini is vauxhall regatta blue. i had loads of tins left over from when i had a chevette and i liked the colour. doesn't take too long, halfords seem to have now perfected the nozzles on their spray cans, they spray really well and fan out nicely. not quite as good as a gun but still, for a rattle can its spot on.

[Awamckay]

TODAYS UPDATE:

 

roof painted black (not happy with it tho, might do it again at a later date)

side windows in

windscreen in but no insert yet.

 

not really got much done today the puppy wouldnt leave me alone, lol

 

 

 

 

[nathdawg]

Looks good its directly inline with the subway if you were able to see it from looking out the window lol but by a primary school. What alloy are they? Are they 10 x 5?

[Awamckay]

which subway? they are standard 12's at the mo just for rolling round on, i've got a set of 10x6 wellers and 2 reverses rims (trying to find another 2 that match) ;)

[Awamckay]

on todays episode of "drew's mk1 rep"

 

new front end arrived (well all but the drivers wing)..........

front panel bolted on, passenger inner winf bolted on (shocky mount bolts)

passenger wing clamped on to lined everything up propperly.

 

now for the fun bit

 

i was going to cut out the whole hinge panel and replace it with mk1 ones but decided to just use the hinge brackets off them instead.......

 

beautiful fit gotta drill the bottom one tomorro, then strip the door apart to strengthen the inside so they can take the external hinges

Then the other side, lol

 

well folks, thats it for today i'm afraid, doesnt look like i got much done in the 6 hours i was working on her but it was a tw@t trying to get the hinges in the right place, lol 

[nathdawg]

Alright mate, so you are actually going to have the doors working off mk1/2 hinges? Ie not purely hinges for show!

[Awamckay]

Yeh i want then functional :)

[Archived4]

Awesome! The finish looks great! Lookin forward to this!