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beechy666_uk
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any news on this project ? As it's been awhile
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes mate, its getting re painted, then i can put it together ASAP !
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PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PAULDRIVER wrote:
Yes mate, its getting re painted, then i can put it together ASAP !


Repainted!?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im not happy with the paint job i got,

When i first got it back, i thought it was mint, it wasn t !

After a good look round, there are some areas, that haven t had the attention it deserves.

The paint shop i took it are messing me about now since january !

So i have a mate who is $hit hot, i so wish id got him to do it first time, but i totally forgot he still does paint ?

He can get it in, in 6 weeks !

I know it will be worth the wait,

Then it is getting put back together ASAP !!

All this waiting i started another 4x4 project in the meantime, which is almost finished Confused

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?214330-4x4-VAN

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Donīt you guys forget this is the man who splitted the seams to get the rust in between removed, so we should be expecting a top class paint job on the van. big grin . This is gonna be so aewsome canīt wait.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PAULDRIVER wrote:
Im not happy with the paint job i got,

When i first got it back, i thought it was mint, it wasn t !

After a good look round, there are some areas, that haven t had the attention it deserves.

The paint shop i took it are messing me about now since january !

So i have a mate who is $hit hot, i so wish id got him to do it first time, but i totally forgot he still does paint ?

He can get it in, in 6 weeks !

I know it will be worth the wait,

Then it is getting put back together ASAP !!

All this waiting i started another 4x4 project in the meantime, which is almost finished Confused

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?214330-4x4-VAN


I don't know what it is about painters messing people about. I had the same when I had my Celebrity painted. Took them 6 months to do not a lot.

Nova looks great by the way.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unless you know the painter it is pot luck on what you get even if you spend a bit,

Paint does my head in, for eg. buy a hybrid turbo, some rods and pistons for 3k you will have smiles guarenteed,

Get a 3k painjob ,it s sh$t and makes you angry and start wanting to hospitalise body men, or so called body men Crying or Very sad

paint is the worst bit of a resto in terms of value for money, but now i ve found a show winning painter, who is on the same page and demands perfection, as he has agreed with the van.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheers about the nova, its the only one ive got, Im still a mk1 er,

I got it for peanuts, and thought id would be fun, and unique.

Im just off for my mk1 astra tattoo in fact laughing

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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2018 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been a while, where is everyone ?

We are back on the van !

It is now in at my mates place, worked on as we speak,

I need to update photobucket,

I will be ready in a few weeks to drive it,

Will put some pics up of us workin backwards, to move forwards,

The van will be mint big grin

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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2018 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canīt wait for this, itīs been a while Very Happy , funny I was talking about your van to a guy at work, I used you as an example of one of the most mental things Iīve see done to a mk1 laughing
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2018 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cant ive been sat lookinG at it for over a year,

Will Get some pics of it been re done

THen full steam aHead back toGetHer Cool

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah come on crack on wink
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you finish the project?
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