Project Unloved

[Tony T]

then the wheels went black





which i liked a lot

[Tony T]

the car stayed like this for a few months - but as we did such a shit job of painting it (we didn't even do the door checks or remove the front lights or anything !!#)
I was putting plans into place to get it done properly

so except a brief fling with a set of 16" steelies and whitewalls (which went on the car and got taken back off within 6 miles as the tyres were fucking massive) nothing happened until the big stripdown started in August 10

[Tony T]

rough guide of progress :



yes, yes it is...............




quarter dent / scrape pulled and small skim of catty applied



wet sanded in prep for painting










key marks off the roof :thumbup:



repair primed :thumbup:

[Tony T]

this took the best part of a month all in - as it was still my daily throughout all the work



parked at work

not gonna bore you any more with hundreds of pics cause we did loads and loads of work to it, quarters, wings, doorchecks, under bonnet / engine bay, boot floor etc

anyway finished result of stage 2




and the only "decent" picture i took of it on a real camera when it was finished



really, really loved it again at this point

[Dave_The_BMXER]

Was the second paint job from a can too?

[Tony T]

so was pretty happy with the car - loved the matt stealthyness of it and how little it stood out while being different enough to get noticed...

then january 11 this happened

someone was trying to break into the shop next to my house, slipped fell and landed on the ibiza - cue smashed quarter window, rippled roof and majorly dented a pillar :sad2:



bastards

February:

smashed sump due to unforseen rock in road incident




March was uneventful

April :

nothing major to report, except a pressure washing incident leaving my car looking like this!!!




and we're now pretty much upto date other than grills /foglights etc getting smashed by stones flying up from the road, - seems my luck with unloved is poor to say the least.
It's pretty much a given if something can go wrong then it will

bascially not touched the car at all since january and the window incident except to keep it running / serviced etc

However it's not all bad news: plans are now in motion to get the thing redone properly again - real life paint from a gun with lacquer and everything
Slowly starting to collect the relevant parts to make this a decent motor again and ordered my paint and materials etc so i can get cracking once christmas is out the way

Apologies for the longest build thread for a shitter ever known to man - i understand some of you may have fallen asleep half way through it - but hopefully from now on the changes will be worth seeing

i'll keep this updated as and when stuff happens

Thoughts and comments welcome - even if you wanna call me a douche for rattlecanning my car

cheers for reading

Tony

[Tony T]

Was the second paint job from a can too?

yeah it was mate....

just put a lot more time / effort into the preperation and application - the finish was really brilliant - no patchyness or blotches etc - an even consistant finish over the whole car

(which i'm lead to believe is unusual with rattlecans )

[DWIRich]

I think it looked decent back when it was that vibrant red with the red steelies. Simply but effective.

A perfect example of a good drop + some wheels can transform a car, take Josh Codd's Ibiza
(Hope he dont mind me posting)

[ChristopherJason]

Js by the end u kinda ruined it...

hope u can fix her back to something good.

[DutchStance]

^^^^
Why are you copying people's comments????


OT:
Car looked decent at start, you just ruined it...

[Jorge]

It was looking good, then it went bad, seems you're on the right track now however.

Dutch, guy above was spam, now removed.

Also, TYRE SHINE IS YOUR FRIEND.

[P78]

i liked the all black theme u got going there

[Tony T]

Thanks for all your comments


Like I say I know I've fucked the car up pretty bad - hence the unloved name

But all will be getting fixed after Xmas / new year time

Got some new front seats for it out of an Audi a3 8p sport

I'll get some pics up in a bit