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[53catalina]

the car is looking great. i would go for Radiant Red personally ( i used that on my last car) as it stands out from the crowd.

[Kustom Jim]

Hi Roadrunna can you move this to the Garage section?

cheers boss
KJ

[kapri]

Red always suits Mk 2s , that's why there are so many out there that colour.
Personally I'd go with a stock original Ford colour for that understated look...nice shiny Imperial Maroon would do for me ( also a favourite with the 50's American crowd as Honduras Maroon).

[klassicdave]

I agree with Kev on a stock looking colour scheme. How about Pembroke Coral or Caribbean Turquise with a contrasting roof in Ermine White? Before you ask, I've always had this loving for kitsch colours - perhaps I'm colour blind or just tacky. LOL

Dave

[Throttledwife]

Jim iv just realised this is the car youve been showing me the Capri steering colunm out of in the other thread!!! DOH!!
Did i used to see this parked up in the College Rd Bromley area about 22 years ago?? I think the rd parralel to College Rd cant remember what it called its a back rd we all used to park in??

[prostreet70gto]

I have to say i thought that car had long gone. i used to see it all the time when i had my chopped A60 pick up and it was off bromley hill. 1990 ish. i have pics of me parked next to it etc from back then too. Great to see it lives on. its one of them cars that everyone knows. famous in its own right. great work. Id go for 1994 Honda R81 milano red (but thats only because i love red and thats what colour my GTO is lol) 28 Shades of that colour but 1994 is the reddest red money can buy

[Kustom Jim]

Hi all,

yep, moved to Bromley, Kent in the mid 80s to go back to college - Technical Illustration. Never did get a job illustrating though!
Would donate an organ to be back there in a 3 bed semi with garage.

Sorry guys I bit the bullet and have gone old school and got Radiant Red cellulose!

Got a few updates and they're kind of out of sync, I'll swap them about when I can be tooled.

Started on all the odds n ends that need sorting whilst final filla work goes off.

Rear brakes stuff.



Jaz 12 gallon tank - hmm, won't get far with that.



S*xo electric steering pump for 2.8i pas.



Fitted a Wilwood dual pedal box.



MSD in the glovebox. Gonna have to put a Mini heater down in that footwell.



Put the fuse box behind redundant heater grill and other dials where they landed.




After a lot of thought and to get back in the groove with proper glass the car can now take a stock screen.



Scuttle much narrower with a Mini wiper system inside it.
Simple detachable ends to access screen if it ever pops.
You can just make out the drain tube at the end - saves the 'hollow' filling up with water



Started painting the back end so I can get the axle on to move car.

Now a believer in rolling the paint on! Just a H*mebase small roller set with a bag of spare gloss rollers.
Put etch then 2 coats of 2k primer on then 2 coats H*mmerite.
Goes on so well you have to do it to believe it.

[GVTdrums]

really great work jim. You're attention to detail is a pleasure to see. Thank you for sharing.

[little g]

Hi jim was surfing rods N sods with terry who works next door to my unit & i scrolled through the pics when he pipes up thats jims chop & tells me he painted it many moons ago in balham. Terry amazed that you still have it & sends regards & we both well like how its turning out now. Terry still doing the painting & well into old minis now & says that when you last in touch he had old custom vanguard & capris

[Kustom Jim]

I just put this pic up on my profile...



A few years before Terry painted her.

Glad to hear Terry's still having fun as usual!

I always thought the 'racing' Vanguard was very cool - so different, and in such good nick.

We had some laffs down there in Balham - even a road trip to Bournemouth which was a scream. Howards dad, Norm, nicknaming me Jumpin Jim for my boundless energy. Terry laughing out loud when I said the light switch was broke and I couldn't get another standard one - me sitting in a car with nothing left as stock. The 'bandit' crashing his car off the garages, Charlie telling yarns and that other guy, the old skool cat burglar restoring cars.

I'll get in touch when I bring the car down to revisit the 'Chelsea Cruise memory lane'. Can't wait to power park outside the Chelsea Potter and watch the pretty girls go by.

cheers
KJ