Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Or have none at all and you need some muscles ;)

In other news, i just bought a heated windscreen #becauseracecar

I've also welded up the bulkhead where the heater used to live

Is that blood on the 2x2?

In that case iirc you also went to Northumbria Uni - School of Design? Think i remember talking to you on RR about the car years ago.

Good to see you've still got it and it's evolving. Always loving hearing stories of people who keep a car for a long time and develop it.

Good write up on the 500, thanks! I loved the Panda 100hp too, shame they never sold them here. I think I'll wait until we can run two cars and then figure out whether a 500 might fit. I've also toyed with the idea of importing the Eunos thats in the family back home. My dad bought it about 4 years ago and I used it loads before moving out here and completely fell in love with mk1's. It's standard, solid and still on the old winter tires that he got it on meaning it's sideways out of all junctions wet or dry. I proposed to my wife in it and then went on our honeymoon in it so it's got a lot of sentimental value.

Yeah that's right! I've had the car for 15 years now.

It got to the point where there was no point in selling it so decided to re-develop it properly. It should run about 150-160bhp with the current engine being fairly standard just on throttle bodies and I have plans for a full spec 1600 build

A nice story and I like the yellow. Pretty rare I think?

For the @Dammit hood issue iirc the MX5s had a fiddly zip around the rear screen, it was suggested to undo the screen first and lay it flat before lowering the hood, particularly in cold weather to avoid the screen crease. At least mine did.

The zip is single use- for installing the window. It's bonded/heat sealed in also.

I think plastic is simply a poor material choice for this application.

One of my next projects is to lightweight the doors, so i'll be cutting as much waste from the inside and ditching the winders and fitting polycarb windows with sliders.

The most important question is, which wing mirrors should i get? Keep it 90's and go for carbon DTMs or go for the smaller but more sticky-outy kit car type ones

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The racer is now moving closer to being a car than further away. New floor pan goes in tomorrow. Loads of patches and repair panels later and we have almost done one side. I would have just replaced them than patched, but the dude doing the welding says otherwise (he's never wrong, and I'm the mug grinding his welds - but I need to nite my lip).

You've never seen such a dodgy resto from the Cowboys that last worked on it. Fuck me. ( he chose the car, too )

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On a scale of 1 - pointless, how unnecessary was the work we did?

The DTM ones remind me of 'fast road' Novas. Not sure how the sticky outy ones will look. The originals, or are they particularly heavy?

Not at all. We cut out the floor pans, but had to grind out all out the white seam seal that was left.

The bottom photo is the other side of that fuck of a spring hanger

Oh that's good then! You going to be doing more work tomorrow?

I think I missed it, what car is this?

Yes mate. Will be at Scuderia Fucktonè from 0630

'63 MGB

Sweet, I'm going to look at this MX5 tomorrow in Kent so will swing by on the way back

Nice one.

Kit car ones I reckon

comparison shot

sanded / polished the headlights of the bm today, suprised at how good the result is!

my attempts at polishing have all been shit so far, chapeau. Feel free to pop over and show me how it's done.

Wet sand with a few fine bits of sand paper, up to 12000 grit.

Then get a hench buffer and some cutting compound. Then finishing wax.

Took maybe an hour each.

I think the reason it worked was probably the industrial level buffer I was using.

Also ordered the right new paint for the front bumper, and an m5 repro replacement bumper. Excited to get the car looking it's former glory again.

1500 grit wet and dry then cutting compound is what I tried- scratch city.