Before & After Thread

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Right hopefully this doesn't already exist, feel free to delete if it does.
I'll get the ball rolling with these two..






There's something very cool about seeing something go from what it was, to the finished product..

[ChasR]

All of mine are subtle efforts if I am honest, but here it goes:



To this:





From this:


To this:


My Peugeot's refurb efforts were more apparant in the flesh. It had a rattlecan finish in the wrong colour in most areas of the car upon buying it! The bumper looked terrible in reality:





A few panels, a bit of effort and some time later. Again the photos do not show the effort. A photo only does speak a 1,000 words:





The Stag initially did not look so hot:





And after; Quite a bit of chromework was changed along with the iffy rear lenses, ride height and fixings reaatached on the bumpers:

[Richard TR7]

[slammedorion]

My Orion 2 litre zetec turbo before



After





My Orion 1800 zetec before



After



My Cat C damaged Focus estate before



After

[atomman]

Ok here's a few I have done

'59 low light ghia

day me and my mate picked it up



a while later, the outside look pretty much the same but a lot of work went into the suspension,wiring,interior and new floors etc..






Porsche 914





912

before


After



My old '58 pick up and an Barndoor I did some work on,


ended up like this but then got sold


Pick up ended up like this and then




Will have a look through my photo bucket and see if I can find any more Later

[mungo]

I'll have a go :
Bug when I picked it up :


5 years later :

[scratcher]

My Daily Before.



And after. Not much went into it on the outside but it was a lot of effort to get it running low. A lot of time machine polishing, solid black is a nightmare.



My old daily.



After.





I need another Evo!

My little Renault. Lived in a barn with a couple of horses for 4 years.



Some blood, sweat, swearing and losing faith later.



The exhaust is a little awkward at times...



And some detailing

Before.



And after

[colnerov]

Hi, Is there an after shot of when the TR7 fell off those axle stands?? lol

Colin

[rascaltl]

When I got it.




Bit of tinkering later, and then this happened.

[vitesseefi]

Before (1988)


After (2013)




No, not a really long resto - it's been on the road since 1989, nearly 70k miles since

This in 1993


Yes, probably about 40% of those 70k miles have been wandering Europe, mostly the hilly bits!

Nick

[rsmithy626]

Nov 14, 2014 11:32:06 GMT slammedorion said:

Duuude, what are those wheels!?

[slammedorion]

[/quote]Duuude, what are those wheels!?[/quote]

16x8 comp TH's with a et25...

[markbognor]

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Was a fun 9 months.. 

[Richard TR7]

Nov 14, 2014 14:47:59 GMT colnerov said:

Hi, Is there an after shot of when the TR7 fell off those axle stands?? lol

Colin

If you look closely you can see that the stands only hold the axle up, the weight of the car is on a second set under the body. I am mad but not suicidal.

[fordperv]

when i first got her, bit of a turd to be honest with lots of issues



after a lot of work under the skin and a repaint

[Anthony]

Not as dramatic as some, but my 205 GTi went from this sorry state of an ex-trackday car, part dismantled and left to rot...





... to this a few months (and considerable blood, sweat and tears) later:





Pictures were from when I was putting it together 2-3 years back, hence things like doorcards, numberplate etc being missing in the photos as I hadn't yet got around to fitting them.

[ben-dover]

My Volvo 240 before:






24hrs later:



36hrs later:

[ratchart]

Nov 14, 2014 12:02:13 GMT atomman said:

Ok here's a few I have done


912

before


After

This is making me seriously question my old antipathy towards Stuttgart products. All your builds are nice but this one justgrabbedmyattention straight away and i'll be obsessing about it for the rest of the day.

[lukas]

One of the best cars I ever had. My 2000 Hyundai Galloper II.

Bought like this:



After a few days, it looked like that:



Wonderful car!

Miss it!