I wish I had a garage for my Mk1 project. that HAS to be the biggest delay.. not having a decent workspace. [:-(]

when I find a place to rent they better have a workshed big enough for my car.

MORE WORK COMPLETED! Someone somewhere must be smiling upon me to allow so spare time for more stripping action to occur. I now have some very small jobs to finish before the car is stripped enough to begin the body work for painting!

The windows come out soon, and the hoodlining is also heading for the bin. I have stripped the front and rear of the car now, and started to strip the engine bay - including the wiring loom (to be replaced with a Mk 2 Escort system).

I have almost cleaned the interior out completely as well. As per usual I have catalouged everything, and systematically documented all the parts that have come off the car. This way the re-fit is easy. Enjoy the pics;

Front before;

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Front after;

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Engine bay stripped;

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Interior dash stripped;

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Interior rear stripped;

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During the strip down, I 'found' what looked like some small surface rust at the front of the car, but after tapping and poking....I found this[:0] Good thing I planned to do some welding on this car...I now need a huge front section for the repair;

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That's it for now....more pics as I progress,

RJ

....and so it continues. In the spare 25 seconds I had the other night I managed to finally pull the old and very unusable 1600 cross flow from the Mk 1. I stripped almost everything off the engine before yanking it.

Here's some snaps;

Before!

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After!

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As Speedy G currently stands.....

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Bonus points for anyone who spied the new wheels[;^)]

More very soon.

RJ

moving along nicley jason. will be good to watch this one

Whoa much water under the bridge since the last post!

I moved house, moved Speedy and have developed a few new plans. The paintwork will now be pseudo-ratrod style and instead of high gloss finish, I'm going for a matt/satin light blue finish.

My Mexico stripes will be the same Matt/satin finish, and I have a few period decals for that added racey touch. Inside the plan is still the same, but I did think about Chocolate brown Recaro's, no carpet and alloy door trims there for a while...but that's now gone.

I will keep the cost down with a 'Japanese' sourced retrim job...stay tuned - it will be cheap, effective and tie in well with the light tan colour scheme.

I am also going to run no centre console and get a long 'NASCAR' style shift made up.

Here's a pic of Speedy in his new drive way on the 15inch superlites.

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I have killrusted a lot of the problem area's, prepped the window sills and started minor bog work. Next stop is body prep....and hopefully buffed biceps from sanding!

Cheers

RJ

Holy crap......I have done more! Started body work, and soon found out the car is better than I expected - well straighter and with less rust than expected.

After some sanding and application of spray putty - things are heading in the right direction! Here's the proof!

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The spray putty is light blue - so it allows an insight into the final appearance of the car. I love SPRAY PUTTY!

RJ

Looking good Jason[:p] Thats another CF feature car for sure[%]

MORE WORK COMPLETED!

I have recently changed jobs....and I am in the process of sourcing a NC Fairlaine....more on that soon...needless to say Speedy G needs to get finished sooner rather than later to make way for the Fairlane.

The exterior will stay the sam as planned, however the interior will get a street racer make over rather than a full retrim as originally planned. Two Recaro's, alloy door trims, no rear seat and no hoodling....just pure driving attitude inside.

This should cut down my build time considerably, and reduce the investment as well - at the same time it will turn out quite cool.

Body wise I am progressing. The rear of the car is basically in putty/primer and I am getting there with the rest as well. It's looking good race fans....more pics coming soon!

RJ

P.S. - My 2 1/2 year old boy can say the following words;
Putty
Car
Rusty
BOG
Dusty

How cool is that![^]

....More hard work completed! New job has allowed me time to get work done! Rear is in primer/putty, right rear is in primer/putty...and I am slowly moving around the car. The thing is starting to look good!

The roof was booted in at some stage, so there is some work to be done there. I have 'popped' it out as best as possible, and now am working in a 'bog' circle! Apparently Aliens are responsible for crop circles as well as bog circles[88]

Here's my handi work;

Rear -

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Right door top -

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Portion of engine bay -

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Loads more to do. Stay tuned.

RJ

Looking good Jason,

Is the primer/putty that colour from the tin or have you added a tint?

Shaun