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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:54 am    Post subject: Andreas GTE Reply with quote

Hi to all of you!!! I will try to present my car as better as possible. As some of you already know I have an Opel Katted GTE 4 door. We have this car in our family for more than 24 years and it started its life as an 1.3S 4 door family saloon car.

So the rebuild starts:

Every part that I have is original with Gm stickers on it to prove it!! Such as
4 brand news doors
2 brand new frond wings,
1 brand new bonnet,
2 brand new head lamps,
Frond and rear bumpers
Oil pump
Cylinder head bolds
Full engine gaskets
All whether strips
Dashboard
Original trim for the seats
And huge amount of other parts that I don’t remember

Now the car is been striped to the chassis and the frond inner wings, bulkhead and all engine bay has been sandblast so I could see what was happening below the undersea and paints. What I found??? ……… rust!!!

Allot of pictures will follow up so you can see the restoration how it started and in what stage it is



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ones that are interested to see the progress can visit the below likn!! There are 9 albums with load of pictures in!! The albums are: How it was, Breaking, To the body shop, Sandblast, Epoxy paint, Engine, New parts from germany, Floor panels




http://s852.photobucket.com/albums/ab83/Nw300/

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Breaking the GTE..... what if found??? Nothing it showed that was in tip top condition


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some more pictures


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had to be sure that every thing was ok so i sandbalasset the inner wings and engine space


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More pictures....


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The next step was to remove evry single paint or underseal that was on the car. I must confirmed the every thing looked ok before the sundblassed but after allot of rust showed up.... so I cleaned every single part of the car. I used paint remover it is a toxic liquid that removes evrythig

See below



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More....


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found brand new parts from Belgium and after allot of work they arrived to cyprus .. I must say it was very hard to find this body parts

See what i mean



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More parts


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:31 am    Post subject: Picture update Reply with quote

Some of the work carried out


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is how it is now!!! Perfect work!! Thanks to every one that have help me so far!!


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yea moreeeeeeeeeeeeeee baby!!!! Shocked Shocked Shocked


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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