My very last restoration!!!

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newsatten
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Yes Polar is a old school white with a green tint
Having done a scan with my paint man we’ve came up with
Porsche Grand Prix White as a virtual colour match,
As actual Polar would be a computer mix as there’s no direct colour that can be mixed now due to acrylic being almost nonexistent,

So some kind of compromise is needed!

Modern whites like Ford Frozen and Mercedes Arctic are just too White !
It’s an old car and needs to be in old fashioned colours 🤣

And yes the whole black Cowl, inner fenders under bonnet and slam are a proper pain and makes tons of extra work for zero improvement ffs
But when one see’s a TA or Z28 etc with body colours under the hood it just looks crap !
One of the biggest issues is by facto 2k is very shiny so matting it down is a pain !

Managed to get a second front quarter in the booth and got it re epoxied and it’s now ready for sealing the seems and getting it to final primer
I’m fortunate to have a spare small room in my booth for panels etc
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Absolutely stunning!!!!
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Well the turds back on 4 wheels now,
Colours not far off now!

Fully poly bushed with all new housings,
New bump stops , Pro Forged upper and lower ball joints,
I’ve a complete new Proforged steering linkage still to fit along with new springs new rotors new calipres ,
But I’ll for these once the shell is in paint
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Managed to get a few more bits fitted,
And I’ve completed the hood both quarters and one door at work, so one remaining door and the turds ready for colour,

I’m going with Porsche Grand Prix White, virtually indistinguishable from GM Polar White, but it’s a catalog colour so far easier to reproduce if required,
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Ah some colour! Beautiful :love10: :thumbright:
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Incredibly high standard of workmanship. :salute:
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Matt74 wrote: Mon Jun 22, 26 10:10 am Incredibly high standard of workmanship. :salute:
as always may i add :thumbright:
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Looking very nice and well done =D> =D> =D>
newsatten
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Cheers guys
Milestone reached today, got the last panel the right hand door shell in final primer ,
Line drawn now, I guess there will be some minor wobbly bits but it’s not a show queen and will be driven and used as much as I can !
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when i was being fussy with bodywork my dad would say ''that's good enough, it's not a rolls royce'', lol. as you say you have to draw the line at some point. i imagine from seeing your work your 'line' is a bit further on than most. :thumbright:
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I gave up tier one stuff around 8 years ago
My eyes were getting tired, and I found the whole trailer queen stuff so tedious,
I spent 6 weeks just on the underside of this XK,
Just pure showboating, illuminated mirrors to show off the details etc

The remit with my turd was make it was corrosion free as I possibly could. Get it square and straight without tons of plod,
This has been accomplished so line very much drawn now !
I’ll get it in colour over the summer and then start the fun bit ,

I mounted the block yesterday and done a bit more cleaning,
I suspect it’s going to require boring etc,
But I’m a tad gun shy now of ploughing a load my money into the car at a time when residual values are falling of a cliff,
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The XK
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i wouldn't be shy of rebuilding the engine, have a look on the rock auto website for parts. you'll be surprised how cheap they still are. :thumbright:
neil.
ps that jag must've took forever to get to that standard =D>
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Yep a lot of hard work and a lot of hours !
Obviously it was my job and I was paid , but it was the water shed restoration that made me decide to get out !

Doing buses and coaches isn’t or wasn’t stressful!
There all 10 footers !

I’m over 1300 hours now on the FireTurd and actually enjoy the game, I can do as much or as little as I please,
Not like work, probably the same for anyone who does this type of thing!

Once the blocks fully cleaned I’ll probably take it over to the guy ironically in Manston , to measure and assess boring etc,

I can get a Butler Forged Rotating setup fully balanced for around 3k but would need to have it shipped as they want almost 2k to post it !
So by the time I’ve brought a camshaft etc I’m already around 5k , factor in a pair of Aluminium heads etc ,
now 7k and so it goes on,
In the long term I know all this makes sense given everything else I’ve already done, however I’m getting old now and the finance this means I’ll have to keep working!
Which is basically my main dilemma #-o
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