so what progress has been made on the mk1? im a bit confused.
do u have pics of what u have done/

Jason good luck with this one, should be a pearla & unique in sa!! are you going to be running 10's on the back should be phat!! some serious tubbing though, you say you ordered 16x10's do they make them that big or is yours some special order or something.

het Jason,

I have some of that nice "Blue Ice" paint if required. About 1 ltre 2 pak

Thanks for the offer Red Pepper...but I have my paint already.

Keen eye there hak! Yes the shell is a big tunnel Auto! But for now[;^)] the engine will be a GT Spec 1600.

I hardly slept last night I was so excited....oh hang on that was the baby keeping me up![88]

RJ

Paint was a give away, by the way![:x)]

No use to me as you would know.[;^)]

As the girls would say, this is going to be real cute ride, you have[:o)]

Can't wait to see the finished product

Okey dokey! I will get Dad to drop it in then and he can see if you have his centre cap replacement (Concept 5 or Lenso I think? [:I])

Hang on Hak......I looked at the badge and the 'C' at the end of Automatic is broken. It's a freebie of you want still want it....and I might have a good one else where, so hang in there!

RJ

The build has begun!

Here's the car in it's new home;

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I unloaded everything, and sorted out what will be sold on eBay and what will be saved. Then I sat down infront of the Mk 1 and closed my eyes and pictured it finished.......then I got up and began creating.

First up I decided as costs were to be kept to a minimum that the Diff, and front end/brakes would be retained. I tried to start the engine...but it was a no go. So I abandoned the idea of getting it running, and started to fix stuff up.

I pulled the old skinny 13in rims off and stuck on a set of Lotus steels to keep my spirits up, and had a look at the rear brakes. They looked Ok, so I gave them a quick blow off, checked the wheel cylinders....it all looked fine!

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I put the drum cover back on, and painted it satin black - and admiried my first 'work' on the car.

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Next up I stripped out the boot, including the fuel tank;

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Then I stripped the rear of everything - here's the before;

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Here's the bum stripped naked;

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Look closely and you can see my black marker pen cirlces around the area's that need welding/filling or bog work. So that's it for now - all that took 2 hours....but left a smile for a week. Next up I strip the interior and front end.

Cheers

RJ