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picked this up as my run around recently

as i bought it


Change of wheels


feeling that paint is overrated!!



spec is,

1999 6n
was blue/purple now bare metal with bronze bumpers and mirrors, satin black roof (still a little more spraying to do!)
coilovers all round
Golf G60 Steels in Bronze
Tinted indicators and 16v rear lights
Morrette front headlights (i think there morettes anyhow!! seem quite rare!)
Momo 280mm steering wheel
Ibiza GTI front and rear seats
sony headunit
2 alpine type r 10 subs in custom built and ported box with vibe monoblock amp running around 800w RMS (badly needs more sound deadening!!)
Pioneers front speakers


plans after finishing bodywork is fitting the 1.8t 20v engine sat in the garage!!

Won't it rust like really easily eventually giving you a rat car ?.

the metal is laquered so hopefully not!!

get some pics up

some more progress on the body work! almost all the old paint has now gone, just very tiny traces left around the windows etc and hard to reach places, these will be tackled with some sort of paint remover!

also sprayed the front bumper however choose the wrong colour, should have been darker like the wheels, have deided though to go with satin black!!

also the panels require more sanding and laquering to ahieve the finish im after!

Cant decide if this is going to look great or horrible

Be nice to see the final results mate

Some more progress!





now sitting back on the black wheels, with satin black bumpers and grill etc, still a way to go yet!!

Is it textured or smooth to touch ?. The glare on a low sun morning must be blinding for oncoming traffic.

its laquered so once polished it will be smooth to the touch! however the areas that arent finished yet ie bonnet etcv are rough as a@: holes!

Ahhh... Althought it's not something I would do I can appreciate the idea and time gone into this !. Defiantly unique would love to see what it says in the car colour part of a mot test

Looks a little better now, should look pretty cool when finished

Your pretty brave to drive around in it though, I imagine it gets plenty of looks on the road

probably the best photo so far to show the kinda effect i want! kinda like brushed stainless!!

Did the lacquer stick no problem ?. I thought lacquer bonded with paint ?. It's actually growing on me, it's definitely unique.

No the laquer sticks fine. i did make the mistake though of not checking if the panel was 100% dry so the odd patch of light rust has appeared under the laquer! but it can be sanded off fairly easy and redone! to be honest each panel still needs more work so it'll be a fairly long process before its perfect!

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