Early shot by which time I had already sorted the scabby Avus rims, a Weitec GT kit, Jetex exhaust, shortshift, c and r lower brace/neuspeed top brace, clear indies and NOS gtx rear lights. Removed a tow bar (owner had a dinghy) and swapped the always tacky Scala B pillar badges for Storm style Karmann ones that had survived from the wreck.
What you cant see in this crappy shot is the badly scraped bumpers/bodykit and matt finish near side panels/door courtesy of the previous owners parking (it would appear) by touch habits.
Feb 06 - Bumpers/bodykit and other partial paint work courtesy of Phirm fx plus grille/grille spoiler/16v aerial mods.
Momo Fighter steering wheel and gear knob, ebay leather gaitor and mats from JustMatz Jerry.
Because this is the nearest thing to a daily I have hadn't really imagined further major changes and the Valver and the BRM car needed attention too......then in March 07 a set of D90'd came up with adaptors and tyres at a good price with instalments! (cheers Mr Brown)
Scala with new boots.
Got them refurberd earlier this year -
but ever since the d90s' went on I have never really been happy with the look, front end in particular, and the width of the rear springs meant i had to fit an extra 2mm shim spacer on the rear, a little bit too much carlos fandango for my personal tastes.
so got Paul at the Phirm to do his stance magic with a set of fully adjustable Weitec coilovers recently acquired via the Adam G/Mr Brown Rocco parts mafia......
Much happier and a big improvement on the road and, pleasantly surprised, a more progressive/comfortable ride. A coil over convert after all these years..........might get round to air by about 2020 at this rate.......... ^_^
To come?
Paint - Bonnet respray inside/out, below waistline chips/scuff on doors and bottom of bodykit, B Pillars, Mirrors. A new front bumper at some stage too, current one still showing the effects of the first owner.
Interior - Having seen a variety of superb silver cars at the shows this year I am tempted by a leather interior in some sort of tasteful shade of red- but thats the colour I am also favouring for the helios car eventually ............
Bay- ongoing cleaning/tidying retaining factory look - this is a 2007 shot, been busy with the wirebrushes/paint brushes since then.
october 2008
shots courtesy of musicman and adam g at no rice this week.
summer 2009
with bits to do on the 16v and the GTL this one has stalled a bit recently.
tidied up the front end a bit but the paint work will have to wait -
YEP. Just never found another look that I like more on this one - G60 steels maybe oneday but for now this one is sorted. 