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[flamingcorsa]

more primer on the not liked bonnet, lol

 

 

smoothed ariel ready for primer

 

 

clam rubbed down ready for re priming

 

 

this time fully covered in primer

 

 

 

 

 

spot primed roll bar cover piece

 

 

bonnet fully primed now

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

more primer on the not liked bonnet, lol

 

 

smoothed ariel ready for primer

 

 

clam rubbed down ready for re priming

 

 

this time fully covered in primer

 

 

 

 

 

spot primed roll bar cover piece

 

 

bonnet fully primed now

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

rear clam primed

 

 

 

spoiler parts rubbed down cos paint was bubbling up

 

 

mirrors taken apart

 

 

quick guide goat put on to help rubbing down

 

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

areo catches and fuel filler ready for black primer

 

 

rear spoiler in black primer

 

 

turbo spoiler in black primer

 

 

spoiler sides in black primer

 

 

primed mirrors

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

for final coats of primer i used white primer to give beta coverage of the paint after

 

 

 

last pics of the car outside before it get painted

 

 

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

car going into paint room ready for masking

 

 

masked up

 

 

 

 

all in white primer now, so windscreen surround went a mix of colours, 4 parts saph black with 1 part volvo titanium gray, to give a dark gray colour

 

 

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

diffuser rubbed down, there was some signs of corrosion on it

 

 

 

wheels rubbed down and primed up

 

 

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

diffuser in primer, and inside of hardtop in background painted

 

 

wheels primed

 

 

wheels then got rubbed down and painted with basecoat

 

 

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

then coated in couple of layers of lacquer, came out really nicely, pleased with colour

 

 

 

 

spoiler painted to match

 

 

as was splitter, tubby spoiler, mirrors, diffuser

 

 

also, fuel cap, wheel centre caps etc

 

 

Edited by flamingcorsa, 31 January 2016 - 07:48 PM.

[flamingcorsa]

todays job,

 

the rear lights were in bad shape, they were not sealed so had dust, water marks inside etc, it was the first thing i noticed when i viewed the car!

 

i stripped the lenses off and polished them up, with 3 stages of compounds, 

 

still need to seal them up sometime but pleased with how they are looking now, shineeeee

 

 

 

 

[Jimmy-Boy]

Wow, looks great!! 

[flamingcorsa]

so onto the colour of the car, i swayed through loads of different colours, black, keep it moonland gray cos that was the safe option, but i am not really one for gray/ silver cars even tho they are nice, just not really my thing. looked into the new porsche lava red/orange, a lambo colour that was similar but 3 stage, quite like renault pacific blue but then in the end decided to sort of play it safe with a standard vx220 colour but still one thats pretty bright so the final result was :-

 

Mandarin orange.................

 

not the nicest of colours to paint due to its high yellow content making it pretty rubbish for coverage so put plenty of coats on

 

turbo ears were painted in mandarin base, then masked up and painted the grill areas in same colour as wheels

 

 

similar story to the bonnet, orange base then masked over and did inside part same colour as window surround and wheels etc, 

 

 

 

this gave a really nice crisp line between the bonnet and area under where the mesh would have been, plus the the dark colour brings out the curves in there also, some ppl may not like it but i think i could work and look good i hope

 

 

 

 

then they saw few coats of lacquer

 

 

 

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

the car

 

 

windscreen surround lacquer up

 

 

front came out really night straight out the gun

 

 

 

de arieled roll cover

 

 

spoiler sides

 

 

pile of bits ready to be fitted after colour sanding

 

[flamingcorsa]

and that brings u guys up to date with where i am now, planning to have teh car looking like a car again after next weekend hopefully all be it with lots of bits to finish and then will have to start on the interior, soting that out and also making the engine look nice!

 

hardtop and re painting inside of the boot lid will be done on wednesday to

[oakmere]

A little sad it isn't moonland any more but the more in your face mandarin should match the mods well. Looking forward to seeing it all finished top work.

[stu8v]

10x better than when you started 👍

[Exmantaa]

On the front bonnet reshaping; some chaps in Germany made a hybrid S1 look for the VX.

 

Lookst pretty good i.m.o: => http://www.speedster...php?f=13&t=6847

[2-20]

On the front bonnet reshaping; some chaps in Germany made a hybrid S1 look for the VX.   Lookst pretty good i.m.o: => http://www.speedster...php?f=13&t=6847

the yellow Speedster shown has a coupe back as well. No others photos ?

[smiley]

 

the yellow Speedster shown has a coupe back as well. No others photos ?

 

 

That's a small re-run batch of the famous German coupe.  

Edited by smiley, 01 February 2016 - 09:21 PM.

[Mangham54]

diffuser in primer, and inside of hardtop in background painted

 

 

 

wheels primed

 

 

 

wheels then got rubbed down and painted with basecoat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think you should have used a matt lacquer... As that wheel looks absolutely filthy good.