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Apr 24, 2011 23:49:27 GMT
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Update time. Had to wait for the garage to be cleared as the parents were using it for storage whilst moving house. But all moved now and got the garage back. Much rubbing down of bare metal and waiting for the weather to warm up before spraying. It is to be done in 2 parts, body and clam shell first, then flatted and polished and then refitted to chassis to allow room in the garage for the doors, rear hatch, wheel arch spats, light surrounds and anything else Charly can find for me to spray gloss black. I have to say, this has been an absolute biatch to paint! Too many curved surfaces and not enough access even off the chassis. Some areas I simply can't get the spray from the gun to reach so will have to be painted by brush. These are mainly the underneath the diagonal rear tubes near the wheel arch tubs Luckily they are not easily visible so shouldn't be too obvious, and also the wing tops, rear wheel arch tubs and side panel are galvanised! These took a hell of a lot of prep work and flatting! I think he owes me a curry and beer for this So this is the clam shell in super etch primer. And now in paint. This is before flatting and polishing. And body tub in gloss black. We used a super etch primer, then a guide coat, then flatted, 3 coats of colour. We are currently flatting and polishing before the paint gets too hard. We will then reunite the body tub, clam shell and chassis to make more room in the garage. Can't wait to see it all in one piece! And a final shot of me. ;D That is all for now. Will update more pics when we have refitted the body and sprayed some more bits.Check back soon!
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Apr 25, 2011 11:40:28 GMT
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Why would you hurt a lovely Disco, you mean man! Are you keeping the Disco dash and console?
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Koos
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Apr 25, 2011 12:49:17 GMT
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awesome looking thing that is!
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'90 Audi B3 Coupe 2.3 Auto [gone] '92 Audi S4 Avant 2.2 AAN Turbo Auto [gone] '93 Audi 80 Avant 1.9TDi [gone] '96 Audi A4 Avant 2.6 Quattro [gone] '97 VW T4 1.9td LWB [gone] '03 Skoda Octavia 1.9TDi [gone] '05 VW T5 Shuttle LWB 1.9TDi '15 VW Caddy Maxi Kombi 1.6TDi
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task
Part of things
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Apr 25, 2011 20:04:49 GMT
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Oh hell yeah! Loving this
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Apr 26, 2011 19:16:20 GMT
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Why would you hurt a lovely Disco, you mean man! Are you keeping the Disco dash and console? In fairness it was a rotten Disco. We probably saved someones life by removing it from the road. The dash, centre console and front seats are all kept. As you can see from the first pics the floor pan forwards is stock as are engine transmission and chassis so no SVA!!!!! ;D
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luckygti
Posted a lot
I need to try harder!
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Apr 27, 2011 22:08:41 GMT
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First time I've looked at this and I have to say that I really like it. I'm a big fan of kit cars and I'm really liking the lack of SVA, makes the registration process much less painful. NCF make some other great off road stuff as well.
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Sept 18, 2018 19:35:52 GMT
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Old thread resurrection!
Did this ever get finished? Is the OP still active here?
I ask because I've just acquired a part-built Sahara and there are parts missing, not least the build manual and I'm looking for information to help me complete it.
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dazcapri
North East
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Sept 18, 2018 20:05:25 GMT
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Old thread resurrection! Did this ever get finished? Is the OP still active here? I ask because I've just acquired a part-built Sahara and there are parts missing, not least the build manual and I'm looking for information to help me complete it. Don't know if it got finished but forkliftfred is definitely still on here
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Mk3 Capri LS
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Sept 18, 2018 20:26:55 GMT
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Aye, cheers. I did a search on his posts after I'd posted and found some recent ones. Hopefully he'll see this soon then.
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Sept 20, 2018 7:08:20 GMT
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PM replied to.
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Sept 20, 2018 18:51:07 GMT
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I'd never seen one before. Interesting machine.
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Sept 21, 2018 11:11:27 GMT
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I'll try and locate some finished pictures of it. We took it to the Land Rover show years ago in Peterborough and had a line with about 10 other vehicles.
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Sept 21, 2018 12:55:41 GMT
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Mine right now. Body was only put on for transport. The work on the chassis isn't finished yet. Build thread will be started once I get going on it properly.
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Ritchie
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 12
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Sept 21, 2018 14:45:23 GMT
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I think one of these would look great in the Landy Heritage Green with the Heritage grill, Old English White modulars and a series Landrover badge on the back. I have absolutely no need for one of these and nowhere offroad to drive one but I really want one.
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Sept 21, 2018 15:04:41 GMT
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I didn't need one either. Want was good enough.
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Sept 27, 2018 12:01:24 GMT
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Ooh. That's looking good.
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