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colwyn500
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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 Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:10 pm Post subject: Colwyn Cabriolet |
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I have the shiniest front wheels in the world today...I thought you should know.
_JAN3192 by peterthompson, on Flickr |
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Rick
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Rick wrote: | Just the rear tyres to go eh!??? 
Looking great, perfect for this glimpse of half-decent weather (here anyway )
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Oh yes, I meant to say "...and also the dirtiest!" |
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gresham flyer
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:26 am Post subject: |
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Do you always carry a bicycle in the back.?
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Rick
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colwyn500
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| gresham flyer wrote: | Do you always carry a bicycle in the back.?
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Yep! and some scaffolding on the front bumper. I did transport a police car a short while ago ( A little tyke for a little tyke).
I don't think the mirror is original; in fact I think it came out a box of bits that came with another car. It is proper old though. I think these cars did have a mirror exactly there and I used the original holes. There was never a conventional rear view mirror. 
before by peterthompson, on Flickr
Perhaps it had a different arm to avoid the collision that it sometimes has with the door. I usually look behind me anyway and I can hear if something's there. On quiet roads cars don't seem to overtake much; maybe enjoying the spectacle! |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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 is that the same car?
your previous project I guess?  |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Yes Steve, that is the same car back in 1992. This is how far the car ended up stripped back.Two years later it was "finished". Painted by me and MOT'd for the next 10 years on and off.
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterjthompson/8684716650
I covered about 10,000 miles in this time and it was involved in two weddings.
The restoration continues: the hood is in tatters and the front seats likewise. There are areas of paintwork that still await flatting 20 years after being done.
It's got a lovely patina though and looks very original because I replaced only the bits that were really done. |
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D4B
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| Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Fantastic, what painting method and type of paint was used? |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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I spray-painted it using ICI cellulose in some British Standard colours that I wish I had written down.
primer by peterthompson, on Flickr
It had etch-primer then at least 6 coats of primer in 3 different colours with thorough rubbing-down between. I think I did 12 coats of top paint with a few weeks between each set of 4 and then rubbed down.
Then I managed to wet-flat about two-thirds of it and brought back the shine. It's that last third that I am still doing, twenty years later!
I was obviously so much younger then did it by the book, and time was no object. that's not to say I'm shoddy now, just a bit less perfectionist. |
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