Well, I'm tidying up bits of the white 'B all around so it doesn't look quite so scruffy and so that it goes with the look of the interior and underside really.
It came to me with sill cover plates. I have always hated these in the past as I always have pictures of sills made out of the local rag buried in the sills. This car however had new sills put on a fair few years ago, but then painted in Zinc 183 (why they weren't finished properly, God knows (Cost?).
I've taken the covers off and as though the sills are fine inside (but I knew this as I changed the iffy sill finishers on the end so I could see down the sills (this one amazingly had one, as opposed to a patch lobbed on top).
But after seeing a colleague's white 'B with them on (his is mint though) I'm not so sure, and think that maybe it can help break up the whiteness nicely.
But then, it is quite obvious that the wings have been repaired at the bottom when the sills were put on, which the covers do hide, but then I have a spare wing and am on the hunt for another wing (headlamp bits are shot on both.
So my question is do they stay with the car or do they go? I was going to sand back the sills to bare metal, etch them, stonechip them (or maybe just go straight to stonechip), and then paint them in Glacier white (not quite Old English White but not quite pure white)?
Thoughts please
A pic to give you an idea:
It came to me with sill cover plates. I have always hated these in the past as I always have pictures of sills made out of the local rag buried in the sills. This car however had new sills put on a fair few years ago, but then painted in Zinc 183 (why they weren't finished properly, God knows (Cost?).
I've taken the covers off and as though the sills are fine inside (but I knew this as I changed the iffy sill finishers on the end so I could see down the sills (this one amazingly had one, as opposed to a patch lobbed on top).
But after seeing a colleague's white 'B with them on (his is mint though) I'm not so sure, and think that maybe it can help break up the whiteness nicely.
But then, it is quite obvious that the wings have been repaired at the bottom when the sills were put on, which the covers do hide, but then I have a spare wing and am on the hunt for another wing (headlamp bits are shot on both.
So my question is do they stay with the car or do they go? I was going to sand back the sills to bare metal, etch them, stonechip them (or maybe just go straight to stonechip), and then paint them in Glacier white (not quite Old English White but not quite pure white)?
Thoughts please
A pic to give you an idea:
