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......in to doing up cars?

I've just started getting ideas to do my car up and was wondering if anyone else has done it?

If so, post a picture :)

Tony :thumbs:
 
I do it for a living. Its harder than it sounds to do it properly...

Actually I restore cars - not "do them up" which could be anything from restoration to customisation.
 
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Awesome, need a worker in your garage? :D
 
andrewc said:
I do it for a living. Its harder than it sounds to do it properly...

Actually I restore cars - not "do them up" which could be anything from restoration to customisation.
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or faking patching them up with a BIG can of cataloy :naughty:
 
learn to drive it before you start to chav it up ;)
 
i have 'done my car up' lol

ive got a corsa B , Coilovers lowered to about 60mm maybe a bit lower, alloys, decat + exhaust got the face-lift bumpers to go on (in the process of sanding them and spraying black)

and extra stuff - added a glove box, added central locking,

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Uber Low ( i dont have it this low was only left this low to take picture)
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Naff photo but only one when lowered and with wheels
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i am not a chav i only like subtle modifications.

i hate people with lexarse lights (unless on a lexus) snow plough body kits and paint jobs that are OTT
 
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I bought an MG ZR bout 7 years ago as a project car. I did not do anything to the outside but it had a 7" Wide Screen TV in the dash. DVD player, TV receiver, full 5.1 Dolby Surround, 12" Woofer in the custom boot build (which i did myself with the help of Auto Acoustics) all run through a couple of big amps. Was a great project. Scary though, as i only had the car for 2 weeks and i ripped the whole interior out to fit all the kit!
 
This is my project car.

1977 Lancia Montecarlo.

Stripped to bare bones - rebuilt with ultra light fibreglass & aluminium panels. I estimate its been lightened by about 150kgs (even after the 30kg roll cage has been fitted)

Engine, brakes and suspension have been highly modified - but rather than just bolting on big things - I've done all the maths to make sure its gonna work - overbored, high compression pistons, big valves, lightened flywheel, lightened and balanced rods...

I've even ripped out the entire dashboard and made myself a new one from scratch.

No hifi !

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Will be used for track use.

Next job is to make myself a new inlet manifold because the ones I can buy won't give me what I want. Then I have to design and make new alternator mountings because the twin carbs will be in the way... Every mod has a consequence with other components - example - I didn't like the standard oil filter mounting as it was cast iron and weighed 5kgs because some cars had air conditioning and the same bracket held the a/c compressor, so I'm having to redesign the whole oil filtration system with a remote filter and a special oil take off pipe.

Headlamps are also used on Pagani Zonda.

Final mod will be full Martini race livery. Then it can be used on track and road whilst I start speccing up the 2nd engine for it - 16v head, supercharged & fuel injected.
 
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Techno-Geek said:
:lol: I'm not a boy racer :D

I am going to get a little car that needs work doing to it then do it up to how it is meant to be then sell it :)
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You won't make money that way. Unless you have a 1930's Bugatti or a Ferrari GTO, it will cost more money to repair it than the market will accept as a selling price. All these garages who buy a car, restore it and sell it are cutting corners somewhere.

However, learning to do some of your own servicing - changing brake pads, bleeding brakes, oil changes and things like that will save quite a lot of money and knowing your way around the car will help if something goes wrong.
 
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andrewc said:
However, learning to do some of your own servicing - changing brake pads, bleeding brakes, oil changes and things like that will save quite a lot of money and knowing your way around the car will help if something goes wrong.
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Been doing that since i was 10ish :)
 
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i have 'done my car up' lol

ive got a corsa B , Coilovers lowered to about 60mm maybe a bit lower, alloys, decat + exhaust got the face-lift bumpers to go on (in the process of sanding them and spraying black)

and extra stuff - added a glove box, added central locking,



Uber Low ( i dont have it this low was only left this low to take picture)
2007_1103tiger0040.jpg


Naff photo but only one when lowered and with wheels
DSC_0029copy-1.jpg




edited to add
i am not a chav i only like subtle modifications.

i hate people with lexarse lights (unless on a lexus) snow plough body kits and paint jobs that are OTT
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It is "Barry"..................:D
 
Always been into cars.. ideally I would have an Escort Mk1/2, Mini, or something along those lines. Bought a new leon (see sig) with the intention of not having to do anything to it but I still make little changes here and there :D

Although I think you guys are too small scale.. you have to think big when you are doing something up..

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I've restored a few old Land Rovers in my (between 1958 and 1965). Easiest things to work on.
 
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