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Show us your Kit Cars You've just taken 2 years to build your pride and joy, right? Then why not show it off here. Let us see your creations.

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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:08
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This is my little brothers car.... he was 13 (17 in 2 week) and bought from a mate of my dads....... wants a resto but aint too bad tbh..... theres a little bit of welding wanted on floorpan and a bit of fibreglass work to do...

this is a resto thread so i will be updatin quite regularly once we have been workin on it...

first thing we did was free up its brakes and tow it home.....
we then stripped all of the shite from the inside.... loads of carpet... sponge... fabrics.... a shitty old telly.... allsorts..... lol
then we gave it a wash so i can take some pics to play about with in photoshop to come up with ideas.....
didnt do too much to it cos it was 8pm and all the mosquitos were out

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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:09
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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:10
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started stripping the charger properly today....

removed the doors

took the seats out,

took off the jaguar fuel filler cap,

removed the fuel tank,

removed all of the excess carpet, rubber, sponge, all the shit basically.... and found a gaping hole in the floorpan.... o well.



removed the windows....

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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:11
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stripped everything else from the car just about, disconnected the steering column from the beam..
freed up the engine lid as it was seized solid..
opened up the boot and found out that it has air horns








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then decided to go all in do a body off resto, if your gonna do summat, you might as well do it properly.....









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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:12
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will be wire brushin the chassis and beam this week, strippin it off all the rust and applyin some paint, except where were goin to be welding......
we will have to see. cheers for lookin!
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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:14
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dont know what that welding was all about but ground it all back and did it properly








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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:15
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had a play on photoshop earlier for some ideas....







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My dad and brother did some more to the charger while i was at work yesterday, finished off stripping and painting the chassis, painted the gearbox and stripped the front brakes down.









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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:21
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dads put a base coat of black down today, to see where on the body needs work.








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Old 3rd September 2012, 19:22
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finally been able to get this thing prepped for paint and painted this weekend. now just needs buffing up, trimming inside, wiring and the engine stuck in






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