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turboestate

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this is the work ive been carrying out on my sisters 1992 cooper my god it was rotten!



















**edited so pictures show up in thread

Edited by SumpNut on 20th Feb, 2006.

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Nic

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very nice work there!!


turboestate

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it was supposed to be a quik job LOL

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that is some serious work there, credit for your perseverance, i'm bloody sure i would not do all that unless the car had some serious history.

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turboestate

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to be fair the car was cheap and still is after all that work but im bloody knakerd i have knightmars about welding LOL

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lol.. and spelling ..pmsl ..sorry i must be one of the worst spellers on here aswell.

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....


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well good!


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Excellent work, and will be a nice easy job of treating the underside.

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yep striped back to bare acid etched stone chiped and painted with the rest of car yamaha R1 blue with gu metal grey pearl on the roof or and blue gliter in the roof to top off lashings of lonels clear coat

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nice spit, will prob make one if i do another mini.

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thats ace how long has it taken you to get that far. is that a skate board holding the car spit roaster up at the front


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nice job!! just scrapped a mini better than that one!!


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yep its a skate board up front as i dont have any more casters yet spit was easy to make utilising some old scafold pipe makes for an easy life its took aproximately 6 month so far just weekends though getting there now though*happy*

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a good (free) source of castors is the trade entrance to supermarkets.

They leave the bread tolleys out there most of the day unnatended....if one were inclined.....

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yeah i had one of those off from the local super market to put my engine on


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hee hee, me too, i use 4 of them to roll my spare shell around the workshop.

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new pics in colour





wont be long now LOL*happy*

**pictures again

Edited by SumpNut on 20th Feb, 2006.

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top colour what is the colour blue????????

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lambo candy apple blue not to much different to yamaha R1 blue its stunning in the sun

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nice

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On 12/02/2006 03:17:23 joeybaby83 said:

a good (free) source of castors is the trade entrance to supermarkets.

They leave the bread tolleys out there most of the day unnatended....if one were inclined.....



I reckon i've got the only Warburtons bread trolley in the whole of the USA sat in my garage!!!
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Sweet colour, can see that cars gonna look top, keep up the good work, hope to get mine in top coat soon...

BTW - I took my buddy VTEC Pete out for a spin this weekend, and even though I am running her in, he gave it a name, the "Brocket"...cause I'm a brocket maaannn, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah....

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its amasing how quick it goes back together once its painted mind you not so quick you scratch it LOL

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That looks fantastic!


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thank for the compliments i cant waight to get it finished then i can start my new project fitting a 3.9 efi v8 from a rangerover into my daihatsu fourtrack van should be intresting and then maybe a rebuild for the estate its starting to look a bit sorry for itself still not bad for 4 years abuse LOL

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