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Steve & Adele

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At the paint shop!

So today with the aid of Spencer and his trailer we took the body shell and parts into Curbishley Automotive for Martin to work his magic! The past few days have been spent mocking things up and then stripping the car down! We can't wait to see the results.

While the body is away being painted its time for us to work on the floorpan and have it completely painted and rebuilt in time for the body to be reunited again!

Curbishley Automotive headquarters!

Out of the trailer...

And into the body shop and discussions on paint!! Work will begin in earnest on Monday for all of us!

Ready for the paint shop!

Well this week I have been really busy getting the rest of the things mocked up as the body is off to Martin Curbishly's tomorrow for paint! The bonnet has been drilled to accept the bonnet handle and all the trim and the rear wings have been drilled in the correct position for the tail lights. The doors have both now been 'lightened' and the inner frame cut for a 1 one piece window. A few pics below..

So this was the inner frame that needed to be cut away to allow a single piece of lexan to fit.

And this is the end result, just a little bit of tidying up and its good to go! You can just make the holes in the door I have drilled to help lighten it. Once the door card is fitted the holes will not be seen!

I was also able to trial fit the Aeromotive fuel pump and filter after finally ordering the proper billet mount for it! I was originally planning on running the pump under the tank on the bulkhead but there wasn't enough room! Plus this way there is easy access if there is a problem!

Tomorrow Spencer will be round in the morning and it the body will be off for paint at last!

It's home!

Yesterday Spencer delivered the car home to us and yet again we were blown away by the finishing work Chris has done on the car! A huge thanks to Spencer for his help in picking up and delivering the car :)

Today, with a day off work, I managed to spend the full day on the car getting parts mocked up and just generally checking out the car!! Check out the photo's below!

First picture as the car came off the trailer!



On the driveway about to pushed in the garage as I had to go to work!

This is how the rear T handle has been mounted, done so the handle hasn't been cut down and also it gives a resting point on the valance so when the dzus fasteners are removed the decklid doesn't come flying off!



Dzus mounting bracket for the decklid, also makes the decklid stand off.



Rear view of the valance, you can see the mounting points for the decklid and also the dzus fasteners for holding the valance on..



These are the dzus fastneres which act as support brackets for the rear valance. The set-up is really strong and there is no movement from the rear end.



The valance is bolted on the sides to the rear wings which allows the whole rear end to come off like this! This makes for really quick access to the engine if required! It does take 2 people to remove if your wondering.



Another one of Chris' ideas! Instead of welding tabs onto the body he made this strip which is bolted the body along with the wing beading and then of course the wings are dzus fastened onto this! The main reason for this was to not have to mess about with the wing beading everytime the wings came off.



To the front and the fibreglass bonnet has also been dzus fastened on..



Front end all on..







We mocked up a few things today..



Looking like a car again! Yes the front end needs narrowing and lowering some more!!



PowderPuff headquarters!

So now the plan is to get as much done as I can this week before I go to work at 10am and then next week we are hoping its off to paint!!