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Makes two of us Dawn the project car was poped on the trailer of brought home, on reading your post I just realised I have never driven a standard A series [:0]

Hope your busy getting all those parts cleaned up for when the car is sprayed, I did'nt have time to do mine now me thinks it's going to take ages to get them fit for the Black manta [:(]

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  • 7 months later...

just a bit of an update

underneath all sorted and painted plus a good coat of underseal

as are the inner wings

front and rear axle,s looking nice n shiney

body all prepped ready for the new shiney blue paint

Fingers crossed the sprayer can get the paint on at the weekend.

things to do this week

clean the chrome/interior

touch up the wheels

just hope the weather is kind and stays dry!!!

everybody pray to the sun god please[:D]

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Well guys

really is gonna be touch and go if my A makes Billing

done nowt be rain[:(!][:(!]

dry days seem to be spent re-rubbing down and re-priming the car, car is parked outside under 3 covers,

off to the bodyshop tomorrow to get painted on the weekend

got next week booked off so as long as she comes home on monday looking blue n shiney will do my very best to get her re-built to a state that can be driven and an MOT taken before thursday!!!!

so if she does make it except it to be with no trim or even back seats!! LoL

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Right i give up

had a bad week

friday - direct lighting hit onto the phone pole...result was blown flat screen monitor and router! spend nearly 3 hours on the phone to bt to solve the no internet connection...have to wait till monday for engineer to call.

monday - engineer calls confirming the router is blown!!

tuesday - goes and gets a new router...easy to connect up...spend 1 hour on the phone to bt to get a password!! 2 hours after starting set up i get connected to the internet...champion i thought and was a much quicker too... 2 hours later pc crashes!!!!!7pm time to go to work yuk

wednesday - right format time no problem there i thought !!!!

formattted nicely comes to put the xp product key in can i find it can i hell!!!quick call to a m8 who lends me a copy of xp and product key....

in the meantime

Hubby Dave is getting the Manta wheels back on ready to roll onto the trailer tomorrow.....gets wheels on puts some nice fresh petrol in

puts the jump leads on borrowing mums vectra!

goes to start the Manta

she turns over but will not run after the key is returned to normal posistion...dave tries to start the car but looks like the starter motor has given up the ghost!!!

pc not running right either

so now iam really peaved off

had a flipping guts full

so its looking like no manta for billing

[:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!]

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don't give up Dawn [:(] I have starters here should you need one, but if the car turns over and fires then stops when you let the key go its a wiring prob or the ign switch is faulty

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  • 6 months later...

Bit of a quick update

Found a bodyshop that will spray my baby

all being well she will be in full colour by the end of next week.

been a very long haul for this baby even though she wasnt a basket case!!

still planning on going to Billing this year[8D]

Robbie....you just be quiet!! LoL

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[:0] jayus I had to read that twice, [:D][:D] woohoo , can't wait for the shinny pics Dawn, looks like you will have it at Billing this year [^]

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I knew you would get it done, just the time scale threw me [:D] The rebuild won't take long once its all painted, you will have a big grin from ear to ear [^]

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rebuild??

you mean i cant just drive it away???!!!

LoL

oh ford bronco couldnt if i wanted too

need a starter motor and ingition switch first!

really looking forward to driving the car as i have never driven an A before[:)]

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will drive well depending on what shock and springs you have in it, in its normal guise tends to be a tad boaty [:D]

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quote:Originally posted by Devil Fish

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Why, does she have nice shins?

[:P][:P][:P][:D]

LoL

sorry, couldn't resist.

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here is a pic taken this morning while still in booth

wings etc being sprayed tomorrow

if we get a nice dry day will get a few more pics in the daylight

but iam a very happy bunny with the work done

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I know u tried to email me but what on earth u tried to send I dont know, email me the photobucket links Dawn and I'll fire them up.

hope u have scaled down the pics to around 100k a pic, lol 2 or 3 meg pics dont work well [:)]

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