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The ugly duckling to a swan lol (new pic added 26th april )
« on: March 29, 2010, 09:55:42 pm »
Hi all

as ive been doing my project for some weeks now might aswell show on here . i got her as a salvage write off and rebuilt her used to do it for a job so cheap to do it yourself lol .

warning my make people cry lol

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there she is looking sorry for herself ive fully rebuilt her now and she looking rather nice but she has no front end atm as im fitting a another engine as the engine in it had seized a big kick in the nuts but never mind . i shall post up pics as things go by on what ive done and added. enjoy
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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2010, 10:02:56 pm »
Yikes! :scared:

Is it worth salvaging? What work needs to be done?

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 10:04:36 pm »
already done my friend  :smiley:  thats what she was like when i brought her minor damage really only took 9 days to sort out


the day i fetched her home  :happy2: from sorting the front out

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2010, 10:38:35 pm »
did you buy the car from hudds mate iv seen it before

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2010, 11:02:44 pm »
i got it from a bloke who deals with write offs in huddersfield so yup .

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2010, 12:19:17 am »
my oh my that front tyre looks crazy with a big smoothed chunk out of it

glad to see its going well.   :happy2:
have you sourced the replacement engine yet?

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2010, 12:39:56 am »
my oh my that front tyre looks crazy with a big smoothed chunk out of it

glad to see its going well.   :happy2:
have you sourced the replacement engine yet?



thats the splash gaurd on top of the tyre but yer looks like part of he tyre is missing lol

yes i have another engine got it for a bargin price just got to sort out then fit it this week was ment to be doing i tomorrow but weather not looking to good .

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2010, 09:13:05 am »
Nice work mate, while your about it are you planning on dropping some xenons in rather than the standard lights?  You know you will only end up retro-fitting later if you dont  :wink:

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2010, 09:18:38 am »
good work, carnt wait to see the finished result!?
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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2010, 09:23:44 am »
That splash guard does look right odd - like a crazy solid tyre with a bit missing

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2010, 02:17:43 pm »
how come they wrote it off it looks an easy one to put back on the road  :confused: did it need any jig work at all ?

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2010, 08:41:00 pm »
good work, carnt wait to see the finished result!?

will post pics up when the engine is in and front end back on

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2010, 08:42:33 pm »
how come they wrote it off it looks an easy one to put back on the road  :confused: did it need any jig work at all ?

the inner ing need to be pulled forward and the leg pulled down as it must of hit some thing high didnt even bend the leg just pushed it up by an inch

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2010, 10:59:19 pm »
Out of interest where did you get your bumper from mate?

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Re: The ugly duckling to a swan lol
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2010, 09:41:05 pm »
Right been awhile as i ran into a few hic ups but all is well now and been on the road for past 2 weeks have fitted cold air intake and turbo back miltek and running on bluefin stage 2

so heres a quick pic of what she looks like now will take som more tomorrow as im having some vinyl work done :)

not the greatest pic




« Last Edit: April 26, 2010, 10:40:28 pm by Guv »