Mk1 Fiesta - slammed / chopped pics!

pmsl!!!!!

"4um"

Now that is properly funny! ;D

Translation for eeegeeenn
"dat woz well funny m8 da way u spk on da tinterweb is rinsin"



Seriously, that has got to be p1ss take?!

Seriously, that has got to be p1ss take?

yeah i think someone's trying to wind me up! HA

thats a cool pic mate, i'll try and put some more pics up tomo.

I think this car is awesome, really great example of "less is more", nothing fancy or shiney, hell the panels don't even line up but it looks all the better for that.

Very interested to see where this goes now the roof is chopped, nice work that man!

Rob

After cutting both door pillars out and the middle on one side, we had it picked up to take to our mate Shaun's for the window gaps to be welded , obviously on the back of a Mk1 Transit



After alot of scraping and bouncing it was finally off. You can see the black oil marks on the roof from the truck trailor and a few yellow ones from squeezing under the barrier at Staples Torquay.This was 1 month before Retro Gathering and 3 weeks before Southwest motorshow the new deadline.


Shaun was hampered by the great British weather and after 2 weeks of battling against the rain had welded the back windows and 1 door.



With just a week before the Southwest Motorshow we decided to take it as it was and leave the door with him.



Back at HQ!
With a fair bit to do we decided to both take the week off work and blitz it!
To Do List
change boot and bonnet and badeless grill.
Paint bumpers, wheels and car.
Cut headrests off.
Lower it more.
Swap tyres and different wheels.
fit seatbelts.




Here it is with the Mk2 Fiesta steels and because we wanted it super low we changed the tyres from 165/70 to 165/55


The weather picked up and we had most of it done, 2 days before the show my Brother realised the MOT had expired the month before so the day we were going to paint it we had to raise it to about a 60 mm drop so it would get on the ramp.Here it is half way through rubbing down and alot higher.

Luckily the Fiesta's a sound little car so it passed the MOT no worries. The only concern he had with removing the pillars were making sure the seatbelt mounts were securely in.The afternoon after the MOT we flared the arches as much as possible to clear the tyres with the planned new lows! It was always our intention to have a crack at the Lowest car comp at Retro Gathering and also wanted to how low it would go on skinny 13 inch steels, so we cut a few more coils off the back to lower it 40mm and modified the front suspension to drop it about another 30mm that and changing the tyre size lowered an already low car about 70-80mm all round! we finished rubbing the car down and painted it long into the night.The bodywork was solid but every panel had a dent and there were so many scratches! We never intended the car to be a show winner, we just had a spare Fiesta so wanted to do all the things we bantered about after a few drinks! ROOFCHOP! Matt paint has been done to death and the bodywork was to bad to paint in gloss without it showing every mark, so we decided to try painting it in Hammerite with rollers! Were not really into the fake Ratlook that alot of cars have these days so we went with a shiny Postbox red. This is after one coat put on with rollers about 10 hours beforehand the pic was taken.The Hammerite went on thick and covered all of the minor imperfections but still had the dents from when it was in red primer, which we liked because the car has always been a rad little car so glad its kept its character.

My Bro drove the Fiests and I took my Chevy.

Great car, just what its all about, having fun and creating something cool.

I look forward to the next step...

Ah, I did wonder what was going on when I saw this at the Gathering Do love the Mk 1 Fez, such a great car. Roofchop seems like an obvious choice...... ;D

thats mental!! good man well done!