Thread: What to do ...paint job

Originally Posted by 40mm

Is this a 'project' or a keeper? If not, then just drive it.

I am an amateur and have done a couple of these missions.... lots and lots of work.... and some more....
Like LOTS of work.

Technically it was not supposed to be either......I got it originally as a cheap traveller as my father was crook for a few years and traveling from chch to Blen in the weekends to see him was going to run the legs off my wee Suzuki Vitara and I did not want to use the wifes car as she would then be stuck at home. (Refuses to drive the Vitara)

I intended selling it when Dad passed, but it was so much fun to drive that I started using it for the work commute (25km each way on open road.....) My wife enjoys day trips in it and it is really fun to drive. To the extent, I never really cared what others think it is. It is definitley one of those cars that puts a smile in the dial......

I had a mate that started insinuating either a mid life crisis or questionable manhood so I gave him a drive in it....two weeks later he got one. His Brother started to do the same to him, so he was told to drive it or shut up...now the brother wants one too.....

They are very well set up for people who enjoy driving. They absolutely love corners, and they run really well. Lovely days like we are having now and drop the top down and just go somewhere.....doesn't matter where, just pick a direction and go....

Maybe we should be paying attention to what hairdressers like to drive. Because if this is what they like to drive, then they might be onto something .....

reminds me of.......... "when i first saw you , your hair blowing in the wind......and you ......too proud to run after it"

i have owned 3 mr2's inc a 340hp turbo. gundoc took his wife for a spin in it and she was yelling slow down!!

audi tt is the hairdressers car, and jeeps are popular with lesbians apparently

Originally Posted by gonetropo

i have owned 3 mr2's inc a 340hp turbo. gundoc took his wife for a spin in it and she was yelling slow down!!

audi tt is the hairdressers car, and jeeps are popular with lesbians apparently

Wife has a wee red TT, great fun to punt about in, giving the boy a lift one Friday night, bunch of fuckwit boy racers though they would have a little fun and hem us in at the Kilmarnock lights and give us grief. No communication needed, we jumped out fast and went for a car each, quite funny watching carload of boy racers drive backward down the road and the one in front drive off through the light that was now red, bet they don't harass hairdressers again.

well maybe its setup for the right purpose i guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FCB8sx2rWY

I’d have one, mind you I do cut my own hair.

As a sportscar fan I like the little MX5s and may certainly own one at some point. Very neat little unit proving max power and price are not the key criteria for a fun driver car.

Tim - send me a pm. I have an auto painter who is extremely good with price and may do the job for alot less than $4k - esp if no panel to tidy up.

I borrow my dad's little triumph spitfire on the odd occasion and take that for a blat with whichever family member I think deserves a ride , usually my daughter. That's a great wee summer car with the roof off and goes and handles surprisingly well for an older car. Gets lots of looks and always a conversation starter wherever you park. He has been threatening to sell it but I have convinced him to keep it for now.
A real classic wee sports car that one and has a character that the japs just can't quite emulate.

Originally Posted by Ftx325

I borrow my dad's little triumph spitfire on the odd occasion and take that for a blat with whichever family member I think deserves a ride , usually my daughter. That's a great wee summer car with the roof off and goes and handles surprisingly well for an older car. Gets lots of looks and always a conversation starter wherever you park. He has been threatening to sell it but I have convinced him to keep it for now.
A real classic wee sports car that one and has a character that the japs just can't quite emulate.

Handle better with a bag of cement in the boot.
The only car that tried to kill me was a shitfire.

shitty paintjob = slightly less likely to be pinched..... well atleast thats what I tell mysell when look at the toyota in driveway with clearcoat gone off roof and bonnet.... keep threatening to just spraycan paint it....lots of light coats...but think it would be divorce material if I did.

ok, had to admit i did once own an mx5, my idea was to fit a 13b plus running gear into it, however following a workplace accident and the feeling in my arm for several years i sold it.

Originally Posted by gonetropo

ok, had to admit i did once own an mx5, my idea was to fit a 13b plus running gear into it, however following a workplace accident and the feeling in my arm for several years i sold it.

That woukd have been a fun car, I liked doing sleepers in my youth (1976 civic with an 1800 accord engine in it claimed a decent number of wins from unsuspecting rivals)

in my youth my "sleeper" was a triumph 2.5............but it was powered by a jag 4.2. still not as fast as the mates mini with a worked 1750 maxi motor in it though

the ariel atom v8 is a conjoined twin hyabusa with a blower.

I wouldn't think it would take much paint to cover one of them, from what your describing as what you want it sounds like you could achieve it yourself with paint that at a price point that matches the value you want invested in the car, I have used the acrylic paint supercheap sell a couple of times, in a good gun it sprays ok but found it needed more thinners than anticipated to run in nice and wet, came off the gun nice and buffed up easy. There are better paints out there but cost goes up quickly and application gets more involved