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samwell Part of things Posts: 504	Clubman Flipfront Project samwell @samwell
	Jun 17, 2009 15:35:01 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Bought a scruffy looking 1 piece clubman front end at the end of 2008. Spend 20mins modifying the brace bars from my roundnose so that it bolted on and roughly lined up, wired in some headlights and drove it round for ages. Still in curse word blue, with no indicators and usually no number plate. Now that won't do will it? Some time in april, got around to bodging on a grill and some indicators making it look like this... still not great so I dismantled and sanded it down, sprayed the grill area black then masked... bit of filler primer sorted out the electric to run through a trailer plug although i'm still having trouble with dipped beam... bonded some reinforcing brackets too then drove it round with battleship grey wings, black grill and blue bonnet for a while (no pics sorry) still not ideal. finally got around to making some progress and the finish line is almost in sight. I felt like it needed softening up a bit started to glue some vynil on going well so far don't you think? had a bit too much material left on the right hand side due to it stretching but I managed to hide it quite well. now for the money shot... comments welcome, still working on it so any ideas appreciated thanks for looking
	Last Edit: Jun 17, 2009 23:34:47 GMT by samwell '88 Toyota Supra Turbo '88 Honda VFR 400 NC24

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Ruki Part of things Posts: 480	Clubman Flipfront Project Ruki @elven
	Jun 18, 2009 9:07:49 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Looks good


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LAndy Posted a lot Posts: 1,055	Clubman Flipfront Project LAndy @greavesy
	Jun 18, 2009 9:50:45 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	good effort dude!
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Ray Singh Posted a lot More German exotica in my garage now Posts: 1,984	Clubman Flipfront Project Ray Singh @rav
	Jun 18, 2009 14:40:14 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I love the clubman front end. It suits the car much better than the original headlights in wings look. I like the drilled for lightness look......BTW: Where are the indicators now?
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An Fear Ó Dhoire Posted a lot Derry Dude Posts: 1,115	Clubman Flipfront Project An Fear Ó Dhoire @doireman
	Jun 18, 2009 16:01:40 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	That does look well indeed.
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samwell Part of things Posts: 504	Clubman Flipfront Project samwell @samwell
	Jun 18, 2009 17:56:47 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	indicators not yet fitted. I want to mount the lamps behing one of the drilled holes in the black section and smoke them so they're not visible. little bit chavvy but i'm keen to maintain the clean look, looks mean.
	'88 Toyota Supra Turbo '88 Honda VFR 400 NC24

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wolfy Part of things Posts: 144	Clubman Flipfront Project wolfy @wolfy
	Jun 18, 2009 18:12:22 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	looking good sam!


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luckygti Posted a lot I need to try harder! Posts: 4,912	Clubman Flipfront Project luckygti @luckygti
	Jun 18, 2009 21:54:25 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	That looks excellent. What did you use to glue down the vinyl? How does it take water cos I quite fancy doing this on the roof of the Merc?
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DutyFreeSaviour Europe Back For More heartbreak and disappointment..... Posts: 2,944	Clubman Flipfront Project DutyFreeSaviour @gtvsaviour
	Jun 19, 2009 8:32:22 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I too much prefer the clubman front end...... that looks well tidy too. Good work
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samwell Part of things Posts: 504	Clubman Flipfront Project samwell @samwell
	Jun 19, 2009 16:29:01 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	why the move??? anyways, i used impact instant adhesive which gives a good hold in about 20-30 seconds which is just the right amount of time to get everything in place. Not sure about water, i will report back when i go see my car. the only thing is the impact is a paint stripper so next time i would get rid of more paint as the filler primer you can see at the top was mixing straight with the glue.
	'88 Toyota Supra Turbo '88 Honda VFR 400 NC24

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