my mk1 reshell project

update time with what i been doing lately before the weather gets to bad treated all rust areas with fertan and zinc primed





forgot to take pics of it in full primer but it had 3 coats of primer and two of zinc on the bare or rust areas then this is the first top coat was goin to give it more coats today but its raining

Top job keep up the good work :-)

cheers mate its not perfect but will b better with a few more coats and a flatting and polish

excellent work rob mate. how did you paint it? cus it looks very even, i'm considering painting mine myself too.

cheers mate just with me compressor mate and a gravity feed spray gun its a bit dull in places but should b fine when flatted and polished thats why i prefer cellulose it a bit more forgiving and easier to sort any probs

oh and in me temp garage that the shell dont quite fit in lenght ways (a waterproof gazebo) lol

well i managed to get my respray finished today but my gun decided to play up and spray out some big blobs of paint so its still goin to need flatting and polishing but even the pros have to do that most of the time

Looks good man, i paint my own stuff too, but really need a bigger compressor as it starts to run out of air after one panel, what size do you have?

cheers mate its only a 25 litre tank so runs pretty constantly when spraying but it keeps up ok

thought i would update with what i been doing lately flatted and polished the paint fitted the back arch trims


and started putting it back together

and this was painted yourself outside ?
i take my hat off to you mate, that is a perfect job especially in that space where you had it sat mate.
my last job i was a painter spraying tractors and tractor equipment in a proper spray booth and the finish was no better than this.

cheers dean mate yeah it was done outside by me under a gazebo in that same space you seen it at its not perfect up really close to it but given the circumstances it was sprayed in and i never done spraying professionly im fairly happy with it

Top job given the facilities and I'd be happy if I could achieve the same if I ever needed to respray a car at home :-) Seeing the pictures of the bare painted 'shell reminds me of my car when I first bought it, makes me kinda miss having a 'blank canvas' as mine's moved on so much since.

cheers mate it does feel good to start getting it back together tho

It's better than the pro job that was done on my UNO haha
Weldone mate looks wicked
Keep it up

cheers mate

That's a great job mate,takes a lot of balls to have a go yourself and it looks to have come out great in the pics.

Now to the fun part of bolting it all back together,dont think it will be long until this ones back on the road   

cheers mate its still got very slight orange peel and the odd very minor imperfection if you look really close but given the circumstances it was done in im happy with it another flat and polish and it would prob look perfect cant wait till its back together and i can drive it it is a good feeling to see it coming back together hopefully be able to hit some of the shows next year in it

thought id update what i been doin the last month finished spraying the rest of the panels put furniture back on the doors and boot fitted them along with the wings and bonnet and a few other little bits

OMG mate I've just gone through the entire restoration and you are a true inspiration. Well done!

thanks mate

looking rather sweet m8

cheers bill  

rob mate, i know i've said this already but i've seen where your uno was parked and there wasn't much room for spraying but you have done a bloody good job of that.

did your neighbours mind you doing it there?

cheers dean mate it was quite tight doin the spraying had to move the gun a bit quicker as it was closer to the panels but no luckily i have sound neighbours well that side anyway so they dont mind