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

Yeah. Apparently it was only at 4krpm when it went, so he's blaming the engineer alone.

It appears the 1800GT does infact preceed the C3.

I'll eat Harley Earls hat.

Still looks like a washed up shoe.

Do I get a prize? I'm full of useless 50s/60s small British sports car maker knowledge.

Ask me one about Ginetta.

Dunno. But if I do have Ivor's mobile number so if you really want to know I'll text him.

Shit. Hactually....

The Mako which preceeded the C3 was penned in '61.

3 Years before the 1800GT.

But the Marcos was first shown at Earls Court in 1959, it just took ages to put into production.

I may have made that up.

The 'Stingray' was also shown in '59.

Yahtzee.

I thought we were playing ker-plunk?

Right - Arctic Silver or GT Silver?

GT.

Erry time.

In fact:

GT > Polar > Arctic

Arctic is a bit muddy.

It's the colour that the wheels were done in, I prefer it so that was my thinking.

Ok to leave the underside of the bonnet in Arctic to preserve the build sticker though?

Wait, what? You're painting the car? Paint it the proper colour, which is presumably Arctic.

Neil, you need help

Ok ok, no changing the colour.

Are you trolling?

I did mention this a few pages ago- to fix the corrosion etc was 2k, which involved blending in half way up doors etc. Complete respray is 3k. For an extra bag of sand to do the full monty seems, if such a thing is possible, good value.

You can all start flinging metaphorical faeces now.

It's all relative I suppose, but yep it doesn't seem bad value :)

£3,000 all in, complete respray with all corrosion sorted, parking dents removed, stonechip re-applied.

Damn...that thing is a monetary dark star, economic weapon of mass destruction. Wouldn't it be better to wait to respray until you're about to flog it if it makes financial sense to do so then?

I suspect it will never make sense to sell it- so I shall keep it for the foreseeable.

I'm deffo up for shifting the Volvo now however. Just need to get round to advertising it.

End of an era.

I'm shipping my money pit too once it's back together. After years of open wallet surgery, I just don't love it anymore, despite a significant sentimental attraction. Bloody cars are diabolically spendy.

Motorcycles and maybe an old banger for me going forward.

Does that include proper prep? Do they need to rub the whole car down and put a sealer coat?

I hope the guy who owns the garage that you've thrown so many 'bags of sand' at in the past year will send you a thank you postcard from his three month break in Bora Bora that you'll have paid for.

I'll re paint it for you for £6k (in the same colour, cos obviously paying £6k to make your car look exactly the same as it did before is the sensible choice) , but that comes with the guarantee that I won't fuck you over for any further work that doesn't need doing for at least 6 weeks.

Does that include proper prep? Do they need to rub the whole car down and put a sealer coat?

Doors off, seats out, centre console out, bumpers off, all rubbed down, painted.

Body - corrosion under the door striker plates ground back and filled, corrosion in the boot seam dealt with, underseal redone where it's been blasted off by flying stones (drivers side wheel-arch, predominantly).

Parking dings in NS/rear wing dealt with, parking dings just behind drivers door dealt with.

Whole car rubbed back, everything painted in Arctic silver (inc. centre console and seat backs).

My plan is to use these chaps: https://www.instagram.com/rivieraautobody/

Likely at the end of the summer - the corrosion isn't going to get a lot worse by then, but of course it's not going to get better on its own.