THIS CAR BELONGS TO MY PARTNER IT IS NOT MY CAR

Attempting to do respray and pimpage on ke 55 1980 4 door in 10 days

Original pic of car

striped this car out in approx 4 hours swaped bonnet for a better one i had.

pictures of car striped out

roof lining removed

Edited January 7, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

26 dec 2010

drivers side ready for priming there is a lot of rust in the rear qtrs, arches and round the tail lights all repaired now

roof had three dints in it and the doors were perfect, no dints at all

(picture will go here)

 

Tomorow is going to be a big day there is a substantual amount of rust around the boot seal even parts missing compleatly.

lots of welding and manufactuing to repair the neglect of previous owners however it has 80,000 km ORIGINAL hopefully worth it

Edited December 28, 201015 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

28 dec 2010

 

suprised how much rust is in this car I'm still working my round the arse end i got the whole passanger side to sand and prep yet, don't think 10 days is long enough, SO MUCH DAMN RUST

Edited January 1, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

29 dec 2010

 

HER ARSE IS SWEET finished repairing the rear end of the corolla and working my way to the front passanger guard hopfully in primer tomorrow.

Edited January 1, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

1/1/11

 

car is compleatly ready for priming

 

Edited January 1, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

1/1/11

 

car is compleatly primed

 

I'm glad it primed 9:15pm 1/1/11

Edited January 2, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

2-1-11

 

sanded the car with the exception of the passanger side (ran out of time) get it done tommorow hopefully.

Edited January 3, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

3-1-11

top coated it today here are the pictures

Edited January 4, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

EASY DONE IN 10 DAYS GIVE IT A GO AND GIVE YOUR COROLLA A NEW LEASE ON LIFE.

 

Ive Decided to redo all the trims so ere is my first door panel

original

striping

removed

cut backing wadding

cut vynal

i wanted to put red stripes to break the black up a bit

glue wadding down

glue vynal on

finished one three to go

a better picture

 

more to come ill do another dash for u guys while I'm at it. ,I'm also going to do a roof lining and covers for the sun visors (or i might just paint them):hmm:

Edited January 3, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

Looks great! Will turn many a head.

Good effort getting it painted in 10 days! Solid work I'll bet.

The Dash Re-vynaling

STRIP

I used this heat gun and heated the old vynal

I started at the corner and slowley peeled the old vynal off kepping it warm-hot

OLD VYNAL

all striped

reparing cracks

i just used sellys quick grip and filled the cracks up not sure how this will work but i guess ill find out

DAY 2

here goes

i put the dash down on this trolly

i placed the vynal on top

i then heated the vynal being carefull not to burn the material and gave it a little shape

i then used the bolts that hold the dash (soft bit) to the dash (Metal part thats welded to the car) to hold the vynal in place across the back (ill get another picture soon)

i went about applying quick grip to the vynal and dash

I used the heat gun to mold the vynal, again be carefull not to burn the vynal

(sorry i couldnt stop to take pictures glue dryes realy quick)

i used the dash face to hold the front down then heated, molded then screwed the dash face to the dash.

the partualy finished product.

I used wire and card board (yellow and red bit in the center) to hold the vynal down to prevent it from lifting after i heated and molded it

 

Been a while 16/Mar/11 just got stuck in to it again done it again and it worked out a lot better post picks soon.

PLEASE don't DO THIS AT HOME JUST PAY THE 500 ODD BUCKS.

its just painfull,

Edited March 16, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

One of the doors finished passanger front

 

a pic of car

 

 

Edited January 11, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55

dude i'm watching the dash with a keen eye my early 30 1 piece needs doing badly..

Some MORON threw an egg at the car when i was driving last weekend, washed it off however the door needs respraying the damn shell just tore threw the fresh paint can't have any thing nice in this town.

Edited March 16, 201115 yr by shaded_shadows_KE55