Hey what are you doing with the fuel filler on the body, keeping it as is or changing it to some other style? I fitted a flap door from a te cortina to my mk1 van , funny thing is the curve of the flap door is spot on to the van. I only changed it cause I knew finding a van cap was going to be to hard..
Pic here so you can think it over lol

Yeah the blue is a nice deep metallic .
I'll give you a small tip, if you learn to spray metallic paint before solids it'll become an easy chore . Painting metallic is similar to painting primer, it's the clear coat that's more tricky. 2pk is way harder than acrylic.
My first car respray was my mk1 escort in acrylic metallic gold/bronze , I used a CiG Easy Sprayer Hoover thing , the result was almost show quality...I had no idea what I was doing either except the words spoken by the paint shop..!!

martymexico
How about this cap......
https://www.ebay.com.au/i...rid=705-154756-20017-0

Look good on a bus

oy!, nothing wrong with that fuel cap at all.
 
If I did not already have one, and if I was going to do Blue with white stripe aka Cobra style, that would be a goer.
I'm concerned enough that changing to the flush Aeroflow one might cause issues come rego time as it is?
 
How much do I need to keep the paintjob a lowkey color  to accomodate the other body mods and pinto  as it is?
I'm 50, I don't need magnet cars that attract attention when I just want to toottlle off to Bunnings or the boat on a Sunday morning in the van.
 
I found out today the paintshop have a 'no isocyanate' 2pack  by HiCHEM and Concept paints that is theoretically more ok to spray at home. This will open the color range up and make things more difficult to choose

great position to be in Marty with the paint. I'll check out how your Escort turns out in it in 3 weeks or so once you have the topcoat on.:)
Good info about needing 4 or 8 litres. I hadnt thought of a red actually, only red car I had was an RX8, with the  suicide doors although that is a lighter straight red color.
I have a new 500ml  of the Satin Spruce(?) color bought for the 4 door, so was tossing up practicing with that on the barn doors just to get an idea. Whatever is chosen will definitely have contrast silver or white mk1 style stripes painted, to show off the arches.
The blokes at work want it painted in Nardi grey. Theres a nice Porsche color called Crayon like an grey with black in it, which would look ok of with black stripes instead, and maybe gold rims.
 
Have progressed this week, inner wheel arch tub is just about done, needs some tidying but its in and welded.
Next job is to replace the passenger door A pillar skin, which looks like 400 spotwelds to drill out then work forward to firewall and fit the larger front wheel footwell tuby things.
Will PM about the arch.
 
 
 

couple more pics
If your wondering about the lazy billy for the rotisserie, I find its easier to change the height by this than the deadbolt lock arrangement i'd made. Next version will have cordless drill powered
 
 
 
 

 

At least the ID plates didn't rust