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Ever since I watched my last S13 being taken away on the back of a recovery truck after selling it, I've wished I'd kept it and I've wanted another. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, I haven't been able to afford one.
Rather awesomely however, a pair of my heroic friends, Matt and Doz, conspired to sell an old, written-off-but-rather-rare car that was lying around rotting and bought me another S13. FUCK YES.
It's ropey, it's rusty, it's got a blown bottom end and it's several different shades of red. But it's mine and I love it, even the slightly mouldy smell inside.
This afternoon, Doz brought over his trailer and we went over to pick it up. After some banter, we strapped my new beast onto the back of the trailer and pulled it home. Here's how it looked when it finally landed on my drive:
Brilliantly, it's a cross-over model, that strange beast made up of mainly of facelift parts but with a few pre-facelift bits thrown on for good measure, presumably so Mr Nissan didn't end up with a bunch of crap clogging his back garden up.
So, it has neither sunroof or air-con (one less thing to remove!), it has no headlamp washers and it has steel wheels with awful looking dustbin lid sized wheel trims. Which got removed quite quickly, leaving piles of brake dust on my drive.
I broke out the orbital polisher, various pads and polishes and started attacking the car to try and get the panels a bit closer to matching. Brilliantly, it appeared that someone had been painting near the front of the car as it was covered in spots of white gloss. Some elbow grease and a clay bar soon removed the majority of it though. A good polish later and the roof and bonnet were back to being bright red, as was the terribly faded rear bumper:
It does look a lot like someone has had one of the front wings resprayed, with a blow-over the rest of that side. Not a major problem, except whoever had it done has chosen the wrong shade of red.
Before I tucked her away for the night, I couldn't resist slapping on one of my new stickers so I could check out the colours and quality of the vinyl. Sadly, the print quality isn't quite as good as I wanted so I'll be getting it redone. I'll leave the sticker on for a while though, it'll be interesting to see how well the colour stands up:
Future plans include stripping it out, slamming it, fixing the rattling bottom end, sticking some fat wheels on it and various other bits. Oh, and skidding it a LOT. This morning, my new engine mounts arrived. £6 worth of hockey pucks. Like I said, this is going to be built on the tightest budget ever!
There will be sporadic updates to this thread as and when I do stuff.
I know, at the moment, it looks like a heap of shit, but bear with me and don't **** on it until I've actually started modding it properly.
Rather awesomely however, a pair of my heroic friends, Matt and Doz, conspired to sell an old, written-off-but-rather-rare car that was lying around rotting and bought me another S13. FUCK YES.
It's ropey, it's rusty, it's got a blown bottom end and it's several different shades of red. But it's mine and I love it, even the slightly mouldy smell inside.
This afternoon, Doz brought over his trailer and we went over to pick it up. After some banter, we strapped my new beast onto the back of the trailer and pulled it home. Here's how it looked when it finally landed on my drive:
Brilliantly, it's a cross-over model, that strange beast made up of mainly of facelift parts but with a few pre-facelift bits thrown on for good measure, presumably so Mr Nissan didn't end up with a bunch of crap clogging his back garden up.
So, it has neither sunroof or air-con (one less thing to remove!), it has no headlamp washers and it has steel wheels with awful looking dustbin lid sized wheel trims. Which got removed quite quickly, leaving piles of brake dust on my drive.
I broke out the orbital polisher, various pads and polishes and started attacking the car to try and get the panels a bit closer to matching. Brilliantly, it appeared that someone had been painting near the front of the car as it was covered in spots of white gloss. Some elbow grease and a clay bar soon removed the majority of it though. A good polish later and the roof and bonnet were back to being bright red, as was the terribly faded rear bumper:
It does look a lot like someone has had one of the front wings resprayed, with a blow-over the rest of that side. Not a major problem, except whoever had it done has chosen the wrong shade of red.
Before I tucked her away for the night, I couldn't resist slapping on one of my new stickers so I could check out the colours and quality of the vinyl. Sadly, the print quality isn't quite as good as I wanted so I'll be getting it redone. I'll leave the sticker on for a while though, it'll be interesting to see how well the colour stands up:
Future plans include stripping it out, slamming it, fixing the rattling bottom end, sticking some fat wheels on it and various other bits. Oh, and skidding it a LOT. This morning, my new engine mounts arrived. £6 worth of hockey pucks. Like I said, this is going to be built on the tightest budget ever!
There will be sporadic updates to this thread as and when I do stuff.
I know, at the moment, it looks like a heap of shit, but bear with me and don't **** on it until I've actually started modding it properly.
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