Plastic nose masked up whilst the primer was applied. Did all this work in the covered area just outside my garage box until the Environmental Police paid me a visit – OOPS!
Black mist coat applied to aid with wet sanding of the primer. We needed a nice flat base for the colour.
Plastic nose had been primed earlier with a special flexible paint and then the black applied to the grill and bumper areas. The areas with the beige colour would be later sprayed blue with a flex agent when the car went to the paint shop across the road.
The car after the paint shop had finished with it and I had done the final interior build. The hood scoop is not original and was fabricated by me. Here it was running on a set of cheap Chrome Steel rims.
The under hood aluminium construction was also fabricated by me and gives a better flow of cooler air to the intake. The hot air generated by the headers and the larger radiator efficiency is not good for developing horsepower as the air is less dense, contains less oxygen and therefore can burn less fuel.
View of the interior. Originally all the plastic panels were a baby blue with fake wood dashboard panels, here they have been spray coated with a special plastic paint in a blue/grey colour. The fake wood panels were replaced with anodised aluminium and the original multi instrument block was replaced with separate gauges. On the top of the dash is an Auto Gage Shift-lite tachometer, when you reach the optimum r.p.m. a red light goes on telling you shift up. The original front seats were replaced by a pair out of a Saab 99 sourced at a local breakers. They were recovered in black leather by my wife who was working at a local upholsterer’s at the time. The original rear seat was recovered in the same leather. A set of 3 point racing harnesses were fitted in the front making use of the rear seat difficult to say the least. I also installed a cassette radio and some decent speakers but this turned out to be a bit pointless as it was difficult to hear the music above the sound of the engine.
This picture was taken a couple of years later when I had saved enough to order a set of Centerline alloy wheels from the USA.
I really like the way your hood scoop looks!! It looks terrific. What brand is it or what are the measurements? Thank you
Hi Bob,
Sorry for the delayed reply – been busy with other things. The scoop on the outside is handmade from a piece of steel sheet. The inside is aluminium of course and was intended to surround the air filter with cold air, it was also handmade. I can’t give you any dimensions as I generally just tend to work out idea in my head by hand. I started from the size of the air filter and the first try-out was in cardboard, later with the metal. I don’t even know where the car is these days, I sold it in 2001 to a guy in the east of the Netherlands and have not heard anything from him since. The last time I checked with our government car register ( it won’t actually tell you names and addresses) the car had been exported in 2013