grandmer

wow the arches look very nicely done!

Floppy

Ah he did say he'd spoken to someone who had mentioned my name in the conversation

What are you having done?

Yeah it's a very good job, completely re-sealed and painted for rust prevention.

Nottm_S2

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This part isnt true, I think your a knob.
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It's you're

He is a frickin loon but on the plus side flopster your previous car looked ace

Floppy

It's you're

He is a frickin loon but on the plus side flopster your previous car looked ace
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He's dyslexic so I think we can let him off for the grammatical error

Thanks! Hopefully this one will look even better! So close to finishing now and that first drive will feel so satisfying!

Nottm_S2

Looking forward to the pics flop

whaninoz

I am also very open to taking the piss out of my spelling, and dyslexia.

eg. What does DNA stand for? National Dyslexia Association

Nottm_S2

Floppy has a worse issue, some kind of S2CD. He 's trying to recreate floppy1 in that pic above

Floppy

Nottm_S2 what's S2CD? An S2000 orientated OCD of some sort?


I've just been browsing through my photos and I just spotted this which I haven't uploaded; the damage to hydro locked engine. That'll be how the hole appeared in the sump!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/7655978716/http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/7655978716/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/alex-collins/, on Flickr

Hedropsforglory

Front bumper, blended into wings - you may remember me showing you in the pitch black at JAE what I took to be a peeling Ventureshield - turns out actually to be peeling lacquer, lifted by jetwash - slightly more expensive than borrowing the heatgun that I thought I'd get away with!

Looking forward to seeing the new(ish) project in person

Floppy

Well, I've been up the garage today to work on the car and stupidly decided to tackle the soft top replacement. Needless to say I was ready to burn the car to the ground at one point; the end is so close but in a lot of ways I've really had enough of all the bloody work and just want to enjoy driving it!

I tried to cut a few corners which is where I became unstuck as I thought it was possible to remove the roof without removing the roll hoops and almost managed it but the brackets that hold the motors and roof base were just that little bit too long to work out and in the process of getting pissed off with it I ended up doing this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8614744544/http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8614744544/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/alex-collins/, on Flickr

After a lot of swearing and an hour back home for a late lunch to cool off I then found a link on the forum that says the plastics for the roll hoops aren't supposed to separate so I just bit the bullet and took the entire centre console apart and unbolted the roll hoops from the body with the plastics in situ.

I then lifted the roof and frame out no problem

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8614740058/http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8614740058/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/alex-collins/, on Flickr

So, just when I thought I was going up the garage to put it all back together it's now in more bits

However, I'm getting up there again early to finish it off as I dropped the new roof into place just before closing so I can put the rest of the interior back together bar a few grommets that snapped on the parcel shelf.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8613635533/http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8613635533/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/alex-collins/, on Flickr


http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8614741624/http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-collins/8614741624/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/alex-collins/, on Flickr