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Some pics from yesterday at the Southwest Autosport Show.

looks simply perfect. nicest looking car on the forum IMO

problemchild75 wrote:looks simply perfect. nicest looking car on the forum IMO

Thanks mate.

A few pictures i found last night.

Looks awesome mate!

E21James wrote:Looks awesome mate!

Thanks mate.

One more.

Have you had the car sprayed??

E21James wrote:Have you had the car sprayed??

No not yet mate.

Nice pics!

woody m3evo wrote:

E21James wrote:Have you had the car sprayed??

No not yet mate.

not yet!? it looks gleaming!... the reason i was asking was i dint know if you had taken the rear side windows out? i took mine out when i had it sprayed and i cant get them back together! lol

E21James wrote:

woody m3evo wrote:

E21James wrote:Have you had the car sprayed??

No not yet mate.

not yet!? it looks gleaming!... the reason i was asking was i dint know if you had taken the rear side windows out? i took mine out when i had it sprayed and i cant get them back together! lol

It has been sprayed in the past but not since ive owned it,i havent taken my rear side windows out yet but im going to as i have some pop out ones to be fitted.

Right so the Mot was due on the e21 last week & it needed a bit of work doing (which i aready knew about when i bought the car) but also with it be so low i managed to damage the fuel tank in one of its last trips out & it looks like that now needs replacing.

So i spoke to my mate who does my bodywork for me (he did all the work on the e36) & he said bring in then we can see what it needs,after giving a good look over he was surprised to see how good condition it was in for a 30 year old car.

How it looked two days later.





Wings taken off.





Fuel tank dropped.



Damaged drivers side that needs replacing if it cant be repaired.



Then on Saturday morning to speed things up i went in & completly stripped all the interior out so he can crack on with any welding that needs doing without any hassle.

All stripped out.







Now anything can be sorted that needs sorting & any other bits we find will get done all at once to make the car solid underneath & them protected for the future years, alos when all four inner arches have been cleaned up & sorted we have also decided to paint them the original colour Hennarot so it all looks brand new ready for next years shows,also going to get the inside of the boot cleaned up, smoothed out & freshly painted.

Boots pics.







This has now also speeded up the next stage with the interior getting stripped out for some of the work to be carried out which John (Sleeper) & i have been talking about for the last few months by getting the full retrim done sooner tham planned.

Plans for interior are.

New carpet made.
Retrim all seats.
Retrim door cards front & rear.
Retrim parcel shelf,sunvisors & gatiors.

But to keep the retro look & thyme going you all might be shocked as i not going to go for leather lol this time but at the moment im nearly that im going to go with a Brown Vinyl & Cord combination, something like this below.

Some kind of idea of what im going for.



As soon as some of the bodywork gets done i will go in & get some more pictures & post up another update for everyone to see.

Nice works so far, it will be solid once again, I hope you won't smoke the cigars in the new retro interior. Lol

Quite a pace already! When do you want the car to be 'finished', set a deadline?

raseeda green wrote:Nice works so far, it will be solid once again, I hope you won't smoke the cigars in the new retro interior. Lol

Thanks mate,dont worry there will be no smoking in the once its done.

Jeroen wrote:Quite a pace already! When do you want the car to be 'finished', set a deadline?

Im in no rushmate, hopefully the bodywork will be finished by next month & i would like the interior done over the winter ready for next year.

exactly this car was the inspiration car for my project