my escort before i resprayed it

[SeventyNine]

just got round to getting some photos developed of my escort when i first brought her!

these were taken literally the first day i brought it, stripped the carpets back to fint a bit of rot, the drivers side was twice as bad, i could stick my head through the hole in the drivers footwell!








then the work began!

welding was all done, and as it was a hot week we set toi getting it all primered up:









I'm thinking maybe i shudda left it like this, bitta wax over the top, and rat look mk2 here we come!! but thought not [LOL]

[skoda_norman]

cool, you got very good results from doing it by hand. well done ;D

[SeventyNine]

not too bad, i wudent have done it if i wasnt on a budget, or needed it on the road pronto, as far as it goes, the prepping werent to bad, but the respray wasnt the best.

id worked in a bodyshop for 6 months previous, so knew the basics, and got all the tackle, air compressor and so on, so thought why not!

[rustingdeathtrap]

Bet your nieghbours loved you for the overspray on their euroblobs ;D

[SeventyNine]

lol, our nieghbours loved us!

we was at it till about 11pmish, at night, with the aircompressor on full chat and i can still see yellow paint on some of the nieghbours cars/houses/children now!

[skoda_norman]

did you just teach yourself?

[Kris]

Good work, I love photo sets like this, they almost look 20 years old until you see the cars in the background.

It looks really nice from other photos you have posted since the respray.

[SeventyNine]

skodanorman said:

did you just teach yourself?

when i was working in the bodyshop, i kinda started off at the very basics, i.e scotching etc, and worked my way through most of it, right up to putting the top coat on etc, admittidly i was curse word at getting the topcoat right, but considered myself quite adiquate to get the primer on!

a recent pic for comparison!

[DarrenW]

Good work!

[Davenger]

Top notch matey

[e28boi]

i love those cars, when my dad was a boyracer he had a 1.3L and an other one after that one but i cant remember what it was.