well hi everyone I'm new here i thought id post up this little tidy up job I'm doing on an old ke55 4 door,i bought the car from some guy as a completly standard original condition with 96000 ks on the clock,i recently sold my rx7 and needed a runner to get me to work so i got this,how ever not being satisfied with a ugly looking bright red box on wheels i decieded to give it a slight tidy up,i call it a tidy up because its not really a project car or anything like that its just a daily driver that i thought id tidy a bit ,so here we go wiht what ive done so far,::::

 

now i didnt actulay have a pic of the car when i first got it a few weeks ago so i just borrowed this pic to show what it pretty much looked like:::

well that was the best pic i could find to give the idea what the car looked like ,my car has the long ended chrome bumpers,

 

there was a big dent in one of the 1/4 panels so i knocked it out,and fixed up a few small dents here and there nothing to extreme just a quick tidy,got it in primer and then painted the insides of the doors a nice metalic blue colour ,then got it all sanded down and put it in the spray booth............

DAMN YOU FOR BORROWING A PICTURE OF OUR BABY!!!!! YOU DON'T KNOW THE KIND OF SICK PERVERTED WEIRDOS OUT THERE ON THE INTERNET THAT COULD BE LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Nuh, it's cool really, just as long as you replace it with a real one of yours in due course....wouldn't want people getting the two confused, or thinking that we're somehow related

hahaha well believe it or not yours was the only car that was red that looked remotley like myne!i searched the net for ages just couldnt find any, any way yes ill have lots of pics in the follwing weeks .....

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and for a few good ones the paint!!! this is a custom blue colour that i made up my self,i had a hole lot of it left over from my old car so i thought id use it up on the rolla so here goes check it out....

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another.....this 1/4 panel was all dented and smashed looks alright now though.....

looks a little better now ....

so there you have it the paint job completed,now the next few things a have to do is basicly for the interior because the colour was just too much to bare!!! but inbetween i had to fit a few more bits and bobs,, heres a few more shots

 

 

heres the old carpet ohh dear its a bit of a mess....

heres some new carpet dark grey colour,i like it a little better than that poo brown stuff!!!

the old factory steering wheel was no good to big and keep hitting my legs and basicly felt terrible to drive with so i got a new wheel and a boss kit now feels good to drive looks a bit better too me thinks .........

 

 

 

old wheel..................

heres a new steering wheel fitted....

well this is the factory door panel alittle dated , but still in good condition considering this is a 1981 car!!!!,but unfortunatley for the door panel it dosnt really go with the new carpet so off it comes and on with a little bit of a fresh materail,i did this my self and the paint work i also did my self,i like to do allthis sort of stuff my self,as you will see ,so heres what i did on the doors.......